Sure, he particularly likes the kind of blackmail material that lines up with his white male hierarchy crap, but any leverage will do.

Of course, if we *know* some of this about Gaetz or whoever else, it's a lock that there's even worse we don't know about....

provides cover and distraction from the fact that he's been accused of the SAME.

The man who was over the department I worked in is a big tRump fan with The Art of the Deal on his desk. He told me that he would never give me a manager position because he didn't have anything to hold over my head. I would have been a loose Canon. That was okay with me. I would rather have my integrity. Which makes me think who was Epstein and Maxwell working for and who did they have blackmail on?

That's why our country is going in the shitter.

But they certainly knew about Gaetz and have doubled down on Hesgeth despite pretty clear evidence of shocking anc criminal conduct.

I think they have a long-term agenda of reversing any cultural change that came about through the #MeToo movement. There's at least an undercurrent running through MAGA that "believe women" is deeply harmful and needs to be attacked and undermined. If the hardcore MAGAs in the transition and administration are consistent in this view (and I think they are), they will at the very least probe it with nominees.

Recall Trump's constant references to Harvey Weinstein on the campaign trail. I don't think anything shook Trump personally or powerful MAGA and Republican (and some Democrats, let's be clear) as much as the sentence(s) handed down to Weinstein. They want to crush "believe women."