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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Apprentice: Matt Gaetz learned everything he knows about sex, money & politics from Donald Trump
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While the dumbing down of the GOP has been going on for years (Sarah Palin mixed reality TV stupidity with lies and corruption, Romney and Ryan ran a campaign based almost entirely on Alternative Facts), perhaps no one over the past four years has embodied the dumb new age of Trumpism quite like Florida Congressperson Kinky Matt Gaetz. I began the #KinkyMatt hashtag last year when some very serious oppo research about Matt Gaetz started surfacing on the internet. As the worst allegations from Matts college days have not been verified, I wont repeat them here. But even a brief survey of Gaetzs highly privileged formative years reveal a life of drunken debauchery and DUI, the attempted bribery of a hotel clerk to get into a sleeping state lawmakers room, the allegation that he created a sex game (with points for sleeping with staff) while he was a Florida state Rep., the fake adoption of a Cuban boy he still claims as his son, some weird tweets about sex, and, prior to the news of Bill Barr launching a sex trafficking investigation into Gaetz becoming public, a strange and sudden engagement to a woman who lives on the West Coast and calls him her travel buddy.
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As news of the sex trafficking investigation broke this week, Gaetz attempted to get ahead of the story by appearing on Tucker Carlsons Fox News show and also bragging to Axios about what a generous lover he was during his single (pre-engagement) days. What Nestor, the son he loves, thought of it all, we dont know.
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Thursday night, the story got worse as we learned that Gaetz may have lured young women with promises of cash and drugs, and had been openly showing nude photos and videos of his sex partners to GOP lawmakers in DC, including when on the House floor. Even after forgiving Trump for grabbing women by the pussy, lusting after his own daughter, walking in on naked teen pageant contestants, committing more than two dozen alleged assaults, and his failure to keep Jeffrey Epstein alive in prison, this was not a good look for the party of family values. In fact, in an attempt to distance themselves from Kinky Matt, many GOP members began immediately texting CNNs Dana Bash with details too shocking to repeat on air.
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While Fox News has imposed a Matt Gaetz news blackout since the Congressperson tried to implicate Tucker Carlson in his shenanigans, Twitter has exploded with multiple trending hashtags, including #GaetzGate, #PizzaGaetz, #MattGaetzIsAPervert and, this morning, #ResignMattGaetz. This morning, Gaetzs longtime aide Luke Ball quit out of principle.
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The Apprentice: Matt Gaetz learned everything he knows about sex, money & politics from Donald Trump (Original Post)
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Apr 2021
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rickyhall
(4,889 posts)1. Trump won't know him, I bet.
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)2. SHOCKING!! Not.
moondust
(19,972 posts)3. I'd like to know...
how long has he been pals with Trump and how long ago did he start hanging out at Mar-a-Lago? Fellow Floridian Jeffrey Epstein had a mansion about a mile from Mar-a-Lago. Did they ever "party" together? Did Gaetz learn everything he knows about sex, money & politics from Donald Trump AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN?
MiniMe
(21,714 posts)4. His "running Buddy"?
tRump doesn't run. We all know that