“Merrick Garland’s DOJ cleared Matt Gaetz and didn’t charge him. Are you alleging Garland is part of a cover-up?” a spokesperson for Gaetz said Friday.
I mean… you said it, not me. But now that you mention it, and in the context that Garland also deferred the investigation for two fucking years… yeah, maybe. Who fucking knows at this point?
But to be perfectly honest, I expect this will all be swept under the rug, just like all the Trump cases. So good job slow-walking everything, Garland, you fucking quisling.
Honestly he lost all the goodwill he had from being screwed over for the Supreme Court and has really made clear why he was offered up as a centrist
Honestly I firmly believe he has been acting in bad faith all this time. It will temporarily settle my nauseous stomach during the Trump administration when they throw him into the pyre regardless of all his boot licking. Fucking centrist jellyfish AG.
This is just making Republicans jealous of him
“Woman told House Ethics Committee she saw Gaetz have sex with minor, her lawyer says”
First, watched? I have several dozen questions…
Second…you didn’t immediately call the police to report a child was being raped?
First, watched? I have several dozen questions…
Saw != Watched, could have been for example seeing them going into a bedroom at a party. You don’t see the act, but you kind of know b what is happening.
Second…you didn’t immediately call the police to report a child was being raped?
She was 17, not 7, if you were in that situation would you call, especially that you don’t know the age?
Also the witnesses is pointing that she saw those two having sex, not that she knew her bio at the time.
If all she saw was them two going into a bedroom, she would not have been able to testify that she saw them have sex. They could have stepped into the bedroom for any number of reasons. Yes, we can infer what happened in that bedroom, but that inference carries no legal weight without other evidence to support it. If she saw a sexual act take place before they went into the bedroom, then she still saw a 35 year old man sexually assault a minor.
She was 17, not 7, if you were in that situation would you call, especially that you don’t know the age?
If I had reason to believe she was 18 and of sound mind, I’d have forgotten that I saw them walk into the bedroom together by the time I was done with my next drink.
Even if she found out the girl was 17 later, she still didn’t call the police and say “Hey, I saw a member of the United States House of Representatives sexually assault a 17 year old!”. At some point, she knew who Gaetz was, knew the girl was 17 at the time, knew what happened and did nothing.
I’m not going to go into the age of consent issue, or the “Hey she’s 17, she knew what she was doing” argument, or the fact that she got into porn afterwards. A Representative in Congress trafficked a girl under the age of 18 across state lines for the purposes of sexual activity. If that were you or me, we’d be in jail right now with our names permanently etched into the sex offender registry. If a jury of his peers wants to look at the whole picture and say “meh”, then so be it. But he needed to be put in front of that jury.
Proof that he thinks of the children a lot
So where are the criminal accusations?
Not digging into this again but I read the minor who had sex is not a cooperative witness and now denies anything happened. Kind of making this a “neither he nor she’s says but some people who were there say…”
