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Sheetplorableyan 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/
Gaetzs 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-- Gaetzs 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 Gaetzs 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 werent 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 Sansoms friends and donors, real estate developer Jay Odom. Odom was also a client of Matt Gaetz, who handled Odoms hangar lease. (In 2013, Odom would be sentenced to six months in prison for illegally funneling $23,000 into former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabees failed 2008 presidential campaign. In the past decade, Odom has contributed thousands of dollars to Gaetzs 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 citys opposition could sink the F-35 program. In reality, the program couldnt be reversed without an act of Congress. Gaetzs 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 schools faculty, are calling on the universitys board of trustees to not choose Florida state Senator Don Gaetz--Matt Gaetz's father. as the institutions 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 sons race.Matt Gaetz sold a house he owned for just under $100,000. Three months later, he sold several vacant lots hed bought years earlier. All of Gaetzs 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 Gaetzs 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
Cha
(305,692 posts)Dennis Donovan
(26,772 posts)Just the Nestor thing alone makes me think he's into some sort of human trafficking.
Evolve Dammit
(18,955 posts)2naSalit
(93,090 posts)Irish_Dem
(58,788 posts)LymphocyteLover
(6,880 posts)calimary
(84,494 posts)theyre either crooks, liars, cheats, thieves, rapists, murderers, human traffickers, or President.
Mountain Mule
(1,037 posts)Zambero
(9,774 posts)No introduction required.
DownriverDem
(6,670 posts)leaked. Washington is leak heaven.
japple
(10,368 posts)allegorical oracle
(3,250 posts)accidentally be left in a parking garage trash can or car seat someplace in Virginia some evening.
GoCubsGo
(33,109 posts)And, I won't be surprised if it's at the hands of one of his fellow GOPers. From what I understand nobody likes Gaetz, so I pretty much expect someone from his own party to throw him under the bus--anonymously, of course. Can't expose themselves to blackmail, since the rest of them aren't exactly squeaky clean, either.
AllaN01Bear
(23,193 posts)hlthe2b
(106,571 posts)on a one-way trip to the Train Station? (yeah, a Yellowstone reference.. )
blueseas
(11,588 posts)B.See
(3,750 posts)another MAGA criminal. Very well done.
ReRe
(10,844 posts)He's actually a sociopath just like shrump. In normal times, we would be celebrating,
as he has resigned his seat in the House, and he's heading nowhere in his nomination for AG.
Saadly, shrump will just find another slot to stick him in which won't require a confirmation hearing.
peregrinus
(380 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,901 posts)I'm talking Supreme Court Justice material here, you dig?
UpInArms
(51,845 posts)I think that TFG wants this pos to be a combination of j. Edgar Hoover and Joseph McCarthy
Fish700
(148 posts)We take serious hits over tan suits and mustard. I don't understand it.
republianmushroom
(17,939 posts)atreides1
(16,408 posts)The DOJ has put away Mafia, Cartel, and other criminals using the testimony of the hit men, drug smugglers, and jailhouse rats, who were involved in the crimes. All of those witnesses were accused by the defense of not being credible and yet the DOJ got convictions!
With Gaetz, I believe the US Attorney in that area of Florida was too friendly with the locals, who were very friendly with Daddy Gaetz!
Just an opinion!
republianmushroom
(17,939 posts)Blue Owl
(54,841 posts)WestMichRad
(1,855 posts)to be TSFs successor, if they can move vance out of the way.
orangecrush
(22,033 posts)PortTack
(34,758 posts)He toast regardless.
At least he gone from congress!
global1
(25,942 posts)Matty's role model.
If Tr**p can be the president - then Matty can be an AG.
genxlib
(5,710 posts)When he crashed a meeting in a secure facility violating all kinds of protocols
FightFight
(162 posts)it was a bit too boring for non politicos to follow so i took it a step further