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Matt Gaetz Was at Sex and Drugs Party With High School Junior: Docs (www.thedailybeast.com)

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Rep. Matt Gaetz was at a 2017 party with a 17-year-old girl at the heart of an alleged sex trafficking scandal, according to legal documents filed Thursday.

The filings cite affidavits based on three witness testimonies—which remain sealed—which put the Florida congressman at the party, according to Notus. One witness cited by the filings says the girl, a high school junior, was naked and said people were there to “engage in sexual activities” while drugs including cocaine and ecstasy were present.

The documents were filed by lawyers trying to recoup legal fees in a lawsuit filed by Chris Dorworth—a lobbyist friend of Gaetz’s who hosted the alleged party at his Florida home.

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[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 108 points 1 month ago

This shit right here is why the US is a complete joke. This sex trafficking and rape by Gaetz has been known for a loooonnnnggg time. He also had a DUI incident that Daddy’s money made go away.

Two levels of legal systems — one for the affluent/privileged and one for the plebeians. Rapist Gaetz still holds his office, Mr. subpoena ignoring Jim Jordan still holds his office, rapist and career criminal Donald Trump is the GOP’s vaunted nominee.

[-] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And every time we get someone on the hook as a ring leader (Epstein) or a reporter with information on the blatant corruption of our economy (Panama Papers|Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia) they end up dead and media coverage of the investigations go dark.

Then the people involved keep the noise to a minimum and the issues get swept away in the current of The Algorithm™.

Anyone who sees has been disenfranchised of the old avenues that assisted organizing local support networks that facilitated engagement in direct action. From the erasure of third spaces, to the oppressive cost of living, to the corporate controlled media, workplace culture to avoid "talking politics"(i.e. please don't unionize against the owners), and aggrandizing of unhealthy work-life-balance as something to be proud of instead of angry at, etc, etc, etc....

The US owning class has its workers by the balls. They spent decades building a paradise of exploitation. Every small gain we fought for to be slowly undermined by subversive powers turning us against each other and our own interest.

[-] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 64 points 1 month ago

And his followers won’t give a shit. That is the state of the GOP. As long as he is a Republican, that’s all that matters.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

I don't care what his followers think, why can't we find a prosecutor who gives a shit?

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

In Florida?

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

At this time of year?

[-] Eldest_Malk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

In this economy?

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh they give a shit. They idolize him for it. They wish it was them who got to party with that underage girl.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Some do.

I don't think many really like Gaetz much. I think it's more like the other person said - they just dont give a shit. They either ignore - or choose to ignore or dismiss - this shit, or they just have absolutely no goddamn morals. At all. That last one has been gut-wrenchingly true.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

I mean . . . Yeah. We know.

[-] APassenger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

He's an a elected official. He just needs to stay that way long enough to outrun interest or any statute of limitations.

Because the DOJ is principled.

[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

Matt Gaetz

Date rapes

By the seashore

[-] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

So I would say that like gates? I never knew or cared enough to figure out how to pronounce his last name

[-] Eldest_Malk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Correct.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

These are the "family values"...

gaetz has sex with kids

vance has sex with couches

trump is impotent, but sweatily presses it up against jigsaw's taint until he hyperventilates.

[-] Mammal@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I was rooting for him until the last three words of the headline.

[-] cabbage@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's so close. If only the GOP could produce one politician who merely had a history of going to wild consensual drug-filled sex parties. But no, there always seems to be freaking children involved. What the fuck.

Also, fuck cocaine. Fuck people who take cocaine as a party drug. Fuck people who think it only hurts themselves. it has fucked up an entire fucking continent and caused immeasurable damage. And everybody knows it. Drug cartels are financed by the consumers, and the users are smug rich people who have every reason to know better. It's not even an interesting drug.

Fuck yourself up with synthetic stuff, eat shrooms or lick toads, grow as much weed as you can possibly manage. I don't give a fuck. But cocaine... Nah, fuck that shit.

[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 14 points 1 month ago

Thinking only smug rich people do cocaine is such a wild take that I don’t even know where to start with you man.

But yes, the cocaine trade has caused immeasurable damage to the world at large.

[-] cabbage@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, that part was written with some specific people in mind. It has a broader appeal than that. It has, however, also a well established position as a rich person's drug. And fuck those people in particular.

[-] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~Wait until he finds out where cocaine comes from~~

I misread his comment. I thought he was talking about natural drugs

[-] ravhall@discuss.online 3 points 1 month ago

I love sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll. But not schoolhouse rock.

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

GOP is a battle of the Turds. This turd vs the Orange turd vs the Couch turd.

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 5 points 1 month ago

Did Ned Flanders write this headline? Reword that shit.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hes been a known pedophile since before he got the seat

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Knowing Matt I am not surprised.

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