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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo Gaetz will be an anchor at One America News
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/09/media/matt-gaetz-one-america-news-anchor/index.html
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So Gaetz will be an anchor at One America News (Original Post)
malaise
Dec 10
OP
Think. Again.
(18,778 posts)1. Wow, a step BELOW "Masked Singer"!
His career tanked fast.
😀
he's so ugly inside and out.
Walleye
(36,243 posts)4. On the trump trash heap along with Devin Nunes
Takket
(22,635 posts)5. Would be funny if it weren't so obvious
IcyPeas
(22,700 posts)6. Matt Gaetz's future sister-in-law called him 'weird' and 'creepy' and said he pressured an older man to date her
Article from 2021.
(There are 3 very short videos of her in the link saying all this.)
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In a post on Monday, Luckey said Gaetz had pressured his friend to date her last summer, when she was 19 and already in a relationship. She described the friend as a divorced father who was around Gaetz's age, 39.
"This guy kept telling me, like, 'Oh, Matt told me I should ask you out, like, that we'd be great together,' yadda yadda. And I would just make jokes and be like, 'Haha, like, I'm 19. Like, that's weird.'"
Luckey said the friend went on to say "creepy things," like, "When you break up with your boyfriend, let me know, so you can have a real man."
Luckey said the friend later apologized, saying he'd asked her out "to get Matt off my back."
Luckey said that after that episode, she was "unfortunately not surprised" to learn that Gaetz was facing a sex-trafficking investigation.
And as someone who has personally experienced a ton of creepy old politician men hitting on me when I was underage and experiencing sexual assault at that age by people of power, it's just very disheartening," she added.
When reached for comment by The Daily Beast, Ginger Luckey said: "Matt and I are enjoying our engagement and are deeply in love. My estranged sister is mentally unwell."
She added: "She has been in therapy for years and our family hopes that after receiving in-patient mental health treatment, she will overcome the tendency she has repeatedly shown to engage in destructive behavior.
In a post on Monday, Luckey said Gaetz had pressured his friend to date her last summer, when she was 19 and already in a relationship. She described the friend as a divorced father who was around Gaetz's age, 39.
"This guy kept telling me, like, 'Oh, Matt told me I should ask you out, like, that we'd be great together,' yadda yadda. And I would just make jokes and be like, 'Haha, like, I'm 19. Like, that's weird.'"
Luckey said the friend went on to say "creepy things," like, "When you break up with your boyfriend, let me know, so you can have a real man."
Luckey said the friend later apologized, saying he'd asked her out "to get Matt off my back."
Luckey said that after that episode, she was "unfortunately not surprised" to learn that Gaetz was facing a sex-trafficking investigation.
And as someone who has personally experienced a ton of creepy old politician men hitting on me when I was underage and experiencing sexual assault at that age by people of power, it's just very disheartening," she added.
When reached for comment by The Daily Beast, Ginger Luckey said: "Matt and I are enjoying our engagement and are deeply in love. My estranged sister is mentally unwell."
She added: "She has been in therapy for years and our family hopes that after receiving in-patient mental health treatment, she will overcome the tendency she has repeatedly shown to engage in destructive behavior.
https://www.businessinsider.com/matt-gaetz-fiancee-sister-roxanne-luckey-calls-weird-creepy-2021-7
malaise
(278,612 posts)8. He's a creep and a criminal
Leave him to time
surfered
(3,620 posts)7. There's money to be made from performative politics
MineralMan
(147,885 posts)9. A perfect way to slip into oblivion.
He couldn't find a more worthless space to fill, I guess.