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FightFight

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Thu Dec 5, 2024, 08:39 PM Dec 5

Republicans wont release the ethics report on Matt Gaetz---Well then here's mine from his dead roommate to his dui [View all]

Y'all notice that with all the alleged sex crimes around Matt Gaetz....MOMS FOR LIBERTY ARE SUPER QUIET !!! HMMM
Congressman Matt Gaetz,

Occasionally takes to Twitter to post anti-Semitic conspiracy theories

He took the time to discredit Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post journalist who was dismembered by a hacksaw before he actually died, by Jared Kushner's buddies https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2018/10/18/florida-rep-matt-gaetz-is-a-terrible-person

He shared a video, with zero context or background, showing a random person handing cash to people in a crowd. He then recklessly questioned if this was another effort from Jewish billionaire George Soros,

Gaetz's aides once wrote a bill with help from a conspiracy theory subreddit devoted to white nationalism--Wired later discovered that a Gaetz staffer had crowd sourced ideas for the amendment on a subReddit forum which happens to be a cesspool of alt-right activity https://www.wired.com/story/republican-staffer-the-donald-resolution/

Gaetz’s record reveals an arrest for drunk driving --He didn't have his license suspended for a year when he refused the breath test — as Florida law dictates. And he didn't have that refusal used against him in a criminal proceeding. Charges against Gaetz were dismissed after events that included, among other things, the forced resignation of the arresting officer. https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/lawmakers-talk-of-mug-shot-raises-questions-about-dui-arrest/2166023/

Matt Gaetz invited a white supremacist to Trump's State of the Union https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/01/state-of-the-union-matt-gaetz-charles-johnson

Alleged-- Gaetz’s roommate at Florida State University was reportedly found dead under suspicious circumstances while they were undergraduate students, Law Enforcement investigated the death as a possible homicide but the agency was later politically-pressured to rule it a suicide

Matt Gaetz was involved in a gay relationship with a well-known pastor of an evangelical mega-church in Fort Walton Beach, But Matt Gaetz runs for the U.S. Congress as a traditional “family values” and anti-gay rights conservative http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/18966

Miami Democrats file bar complaint against Matt Gaetz for his classified facility raid https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/miami-democrats-file-bar-complaint-against-matt-gaetz-for-his-classified-facility-raid/

CNN legal analyst slams Matt Gaetz’s threatening tweet to Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/26/politics/matt-gaetz-tweet-michael-cohen/index.html

Rep. Matt Gaetz suggested a caravan of Honduran refugees was paid by George Soros to disrupt the U.S. election. And he only went further off the rails when challenged.

Republican. Matt Gaetz was literally the only person to vote against an anti-human trafficking bill https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2017/12/29/florida-rep-matt-gaetz-was-literally-the-only-person-to-vote-against-an-anti-human-trafficking-bill

Matt Gaetz Voted Against Paid Sick Leave in Florida But Takes Paid Leave From Congress https://theintercept.com/2020/03/12/matt-gaetz-florida-paid-sick-leave-coronavirus/

In the late 1970s, Matt Gaetz's father co-founded a nonprofit hospice companyVita'sas which they sold in 2004, In 2013, the Justice Department sueVita'sas, alleging that between 2002 and 2013, the company had defrauded Medicare by filing false claims for services never provided or for patients who weren’t terminally ill. The company settled the case in 2017 for more than $75 million, at the time the largest settlement ever recovered from a hospice company. https://homehealthcarenews.com/2017/11/75-million-settlement-reached-in-hospice-false-claims-case/

House Speaker Ray Sansom, a friend of Don Gaetz for whom Matt had worked as a legislative aide during law school. In April 2009, Sansom was indicted on corruption charges, accused of tweaking the state budget to funnel more than $25 million to Northwest Florida State College in Niceville. Of those funds, $6 million was earmarked to build a hangar at the Destin airport for a jet company owned by one of Sansom’s friends and donors, real estate developer Jay Odom. Odom was also a client of Matt Gaetz, who handled Odom’s hangar lease. (In 2013, Odom would be sentenced to six months in prison for illegally funneling $23,000 into former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s failed 2008 presidential campaign. In the past decade, Odom has contributed thousands of dollars to Gaetz’s political campaigns https://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/legislature/florida-rep-matt-gaetz-stands-his-ground-in-defense-of-controversial-law/2151199/

Republican Matt Gaetz mocked food stamp recipients (“Yesterday I saw a lady at Publix use her ‘Access’ welfare card. Her back was covered in tattoos. RT if u suppoentitlement reformorm.”) https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2017/08/22/florida-republican-doesnt-think-poor-people-should-have-soda

Republican Matt Gaetz questioned the literacy skills of 2 black Democratic colleagues https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article20029155.html

Don Gaetz, routinely wrote articles for the Pensacola News Journal but quit on the grounds that the paper was too mean to his son, Matt Gaetz https://www.pnj.com/story/opinion/2019/03/02/marlette-deja-vu-gaetz-gaffes-part-ii/3009927002/

3 months before declaring his candidacy for the state House, he sued Valparaiso on behalf Igloososa County and argued publicly that the city’s opposition could sink the F-35 program. In reality, the program couldn’t be reversed without an act of Congress. Gaetz’s lawsuit went nowhere. “It was a big waste of time and money, but it got him in the paper,” https://floridapolitics.com/archives/218599-email-insights-matt-gaetz-boasts-role-keeping-f-35-program-alive-eglin-air-force-base

Matt Gaetz co-sponsored bill to abolish the department of education https://thepulsepensacola.com/2017/02/gaetz-cosponsors-bill-eliminate-department-education/

A group of students from the University of West Florida, joining the school’s faculty, are calling on the university’s board of trustees to not choose Florida state Senator Don Gaetz--Matt Gaetz's father. as the institution’s sixth president. https://thepulsepensacola.com/2016/09/uwf-students-petition-gaetz-next-president/

Where did Matt Gaetz come up with all that money to run for congress? The obvious suspect was his dad. It would have been illegal for Don Gaetz to lend six figures to the campaign, but he appears to have found another way to funnel money to his son’s race.Matt Gaetz sold a house he owned for just under $100,000. Three months later, he sold several vacant lots he’d bought years earlier. All of Gaetz’s real estate was purchased by the same buyer: a company called Treveron, which, it turns out, is owned by his dad. http://wp.studeri.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Don-Gaetz-2013.pdf

When Trump called Haiti a “s--ithole” country in January 2018, Gaetz took to the airwaves to concur that Haiti was “deplorable,” full of “sheet metal and garbage.” https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2018/01/17/florida-rep-matt-gaetz-says-haiti-is-full-of-sheet-metal-and-garbage

The first bill Rcongressmancogressman Matt Gaetz ever introduced was a one-sentence measure disbanding the Environmental Protection Agency. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/congress-wont-terminate-the-epa/516918/

In his first term, Republican Matt Gaetz missed more votes than all but seven freshman House members

Matt Gaetz and his Coalition of the Stupid stormed impeachment proceedings to 'demand transparency' — except that's not what it's really about---The irony is that, according to Politico, “more than 45 House Republicans — nearly a quarter of the House GOP conference — already have full access to the depositions via their membership on one of the three committees leading the impeachment inquiry.” https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/matt-gaetz-scif-trump-impeachment-inquiry-republicans-storm-a9168646.html

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz accused of creating sex game with 'points' for sleeping with staff https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-gaetz-latvala-twitter-20200114-hrbeklwtxnbvfnbwvu57nlxvpy-story.html

Mar 10, 2020 - Rep. Matt Gaetz wore a gas mask on the house floor to mock the coronavirus situation--Apr 17, 2020 Florida now has 23,340 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 668 https://www.theroot.com/matt-gaetz-wore-a-gas-mask-on-house-floor-and-now-he-s-1842241582

Rep. Matt Gaetz hires ex-White House aide fired for white nationalist ties https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/19/matt-gaetz-aide-white-nationalists-1283314

Matt Gaetz’s antifa-detecting facial recognition story is complete nonsense---The company says the photo showed neo-Nazis and a QAnon figure
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/7/22218601/matt-gaetz-antifa-capitol-hill-riot-xrvision-facial-recognition-washington-times-story-false?ududjdj

Liz Cheney spokesperson tells Matt Gaetz to 'leave his beauty bag at home' as he heads to Wyoming https://news.yahoo.com/liz-cheney-spokesperson-tells-matt-165124740.html


Matt Gaetz 38 years old and His "adopted" Son, Nestor--adoptepaperworkpapaerwork, the brother of Gaetz's ex-girlfriend https://www.theroot.com/we-ve-got-to-talk-about-matt-gaetz-and-his-son-nestor-1846536883

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