Prosecutors may have declined to charge Matt Gaetz over allegations of federal sex trafficking, but the perverted problems keep piling up for one of the most unpopular members of Congress.
The House Ethics Committee, which restarted its probe into Gaetz and his alleged tawdry behavior, recently acquired text messages from a young woman who told investigators in 2021 that she had sex with him at a drug-fueled party, the Daily Beast reports.
The unnamed woman’s attorney said she was paid to attend the bacchanalian affair. The lawyer went on to tell the Daily Beast that the woman received payment in connection to multiple sex parties involving people in the anti-LGBTQ+ Florida congressman’s orbit.
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The pressure is heating up against Gaetz, who earned scorn from House Republicans for his successful effort to oust Kevin McCarthy as Speaker. During the chaotic process, Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of New York called Gaetz a “vile person,” and Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, who chairs the House Rules Committee, said it was time to “take the sharp knives away from children.”
Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma went a step further, saying many House members believe the allegations against Gaetz, from sex trafficking to solicitation of prostitution, are true.
“There’s a reason why no one in the Congress came and defended him: because we had all seen the videos he was showing on the House floor—that all of us had walked away—of the girls that he had slept with,” he said.
Mullin also alleges Gaetz would brag about how he “crushes E.D. medicine” and “chases it with energy drinks so he can go all night.”
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Apparently, that’s the kind of deviant behavior that was happening at Gaetz’s parties. The woman told prosecutors she and others were provided “all kinds of controlled substances” at the events in question.
Text messages also show Gaetz propositioning the woman to join him on a May 2017 trip to the Florida Keys, along with three women and one other man.
Gaetz, who represents a deep red district on Florida’s panhandle, was just starting his first term in Congress at the time of the vacay.
“As is true with all time you spend w me, it’ll be fun and chill,” Gaetz wrote in one of the texts.
The woman agreed to join the trip, before ultimately declining.
While the woman says all sexual interactions with Gaetz and his pals were consensual, her attorney says the widespread abuse of alcohol and drugs at the parties played a role in the attendees’ promiscuity (gee, you think)??
“The availability of vast amounts of alcohol and controlled substances gave rise to the lack of control of the hormonal imperative, which inspired people to engage in intimate behavior that may or may not have been because they were financially remunerated,” the lawyer said.
The woman received nearly $2,500 from Gaetz’s then-bestie, tax collector Joel Greenberg, between March and July 2017. Greenberg struck a deal with prosecutors in May 2021, pleading guilty to child sex trafficking, fraud and several other federal crimes.
In a confession letter, Greenberg says Gaetz also paid to have sex with a 17-year-old, who was the center of the sex trafficking charges against the political nepo baby. Gaetz was accused of supplying the girl with drugs and alcohol, flying her to to the Bahamas, and having sex with her.
The Department of Justice didn’t wind up charging Gaetz in the probe, following a multi-year investigation.
But as mentioned, the House Ethics Committee continues to look into the sordid matter. Gaetz has told colleagues his campaign against McCarthy was due to the rebooted probe.
Despite all of that animosity, Gaetz recently suggested McCarthy be named head of the Republican National Committee, given his fundraising prowess. (It looks like that gig will be awarded to Lara Trump, anyway.)
The California Republican, who resigned from Congress at the end of December, didn’t sound pleased with his adversary’s endorsement.
“I think people see how far Matt Gaetz will go and the fear he has of what’s in the ethics complaint. He’s trying to protect himself, and that harms our caucus, that harms our majority,” he told the Washington Examiner.
“In the end, people will see why Gaetz would want to do that. And I think in the end, Gaetz would have a hard time being a member of Congress and with staying out of jail, too,” he added.
We wouldn’t expect anything less from a man nicknamed “Rapey McForehead.” Drug-fueled sex parties are all fun and games until evidence gets handed over to House investigators.
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Kangol2
Gaetz is a nasty right-wing creep who might finally get his comeuppance. If that happens, I can only imagine Kevin McCarthy will be laughing with schadenfreude all the way to the bank!
Fahd
Gaetz, using his father´s money, apparently amassed a team of attorneys specialized in the defense of high profile (no pun intended) individuals accused of sex crimes. No doubt those attorneys played a role in the prosecutors’ decision not to pursue charges against Gaetz. Let´s see if now daddy´and his money can find a way to deter the House Ethics Committee.
All this part of the dismal decline of the House of Representatives; hell in a handbasket.
Mr.Gavin Elster
Queerty readers probably want to know, after hearing Gaetz say he “can go all night.” How big is it, is he cut, or uncut? Any nude pix circulating? Horrible and homophobic he may be, but a lot of us would probably still “do him” if he was drunk and “curious.” Guys like that usually are!
decrans
Ask Queerty’s Little Trumpy McAbs. I’m sure he has a spank bank of Gaetz wang pics he faps to.
abfab
Jeff Cleghorn said you can have your janatorial job back if you promise to behave and use your outhouse when you need to make. There’s hope for you detranz.
decrans
Oh. And go worship your pedophile idol, Harvey Milk. He did the exact same thing as Gaetz. Go rub it out to your pedophile and misogynist A-team, Little Trumpy.
decrans
First off, learn to spell janitor, you bucktoothed illiterate fuk. Secondly, like a good liberal, there you go disparaging working class jobs again. It didn’t work out too good for you in 2016, Trumpy. And I gotta say, the working class millennials and Gen-Zers I talk to? They aren’t falling for the Democratic party’s shit as readily. So sad. Now go jerk one out to your Republican misogynist idols and nut one out for Eddie Munster. It’s probably the most action your octogenarian peehole has seen in months.
Den
“And I gotta say, the working class millennials and Gen-Zers I talk to? They aren’t falling for the Democratic party’s shit as readily.”
I seriously doubt there are enough working class millennials and gen z folks willing to talk to an obvious misanthrope like you to give that anecdotal statement any value. The claim has certainly been made on the MAGA propaganda sites, but statistically it is insignificant. And before you criticize another’s spelling error, try learning how to use “well” and “good”. As for Milk being a pedophile, you need to open a dictionary, as you have no idea what you are talking about. You are just parroting the lies of the far right as all you hetero sheep do. When Milk met the man in question, he was above the legal age of consent in NYS and certainly long out of puberty (once again, a dictionary might help you to not appear a fool). And when they went o CA, the young man was above 18.
And had it been a young woman he had been with, you hetero MAGAT trolls would have hi-fived him. Effing mendacious creep! And drop the ex-trans crap. If it isn’t an outright lie, take some of that right wing “personal responsibility” for your own mistake, it makes you look even more stupid than you obviously are. The number of people who transition are tiny, the amount of time it takes is huge, and the percentage who regret it is tiny. We are sorry for your mistake (if, again it isn’t a cheap lie), but it is not the fault of the left, or of the medical profession.
decrans
I worked various canvassing jobs. Thanks!
decrans
And Matt Gaetz’s girl was the same age. Equivocation.
decrans
On another thread, you bemoaned right wing gay men castrating other gays like it’s the 1930s. Nothing to say to the underage lesbian hacking off her breasts in the NYT, huh? You’re the new sterilizer 2.0, Den. You’re just too stupid to put two and two together yet.
decrans
And I do take responsibility for my mistakes. Do you take responsibility for the autistic lesbian in the New York Times? It’s YOUR community, too, Den. You probably hollered, “You go, Mr. Thang! Live your inner truth, bitch!” and clapped like circus seals on an episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Meanwhile, I speak out about my experiences in front of Republican legislatures. I stand up for the teenage version of myself. As for your tired “detransitioners are miniscule” parroting meme? So is the trans community. It ain’t stopping you, is it?
decrans
And I also bring this up. You tut like Helen Lovejoy about conservative parents kicking out 16 year olds. Are they adults or not? Make up your own damned mind. And if they’re not, go out and legalize pedophilia in all 50 states. Let us know how it works out for you.
decrans
And again, I am willing to put these claims of mendaciousness to bed. I still have my license with my trans name on it. I will gladly block out the numbers and wave at the camera for you. But hey, it’s easier to be a smear merchant, is it not? winter. breedlove@ protonmail.com is my old email. I’m willing to put up or shut up. Are you, Den?
decrans
Hell, I will even send you an email receipt of the canvassing firms I’ve worked for. Email correspondence with the names blacked out. But again, y’all LOVE being smear merchants. Similar to the right-wing might I add.
decrans
Notice how Den is fine with Queerty calling the 17 year old a “girl.” Harvey Milk’s mentally ill teen? That’s a man. It’s almost as if you adopt moral posturing for a political agenda of some sort. Gosh.
Bosch
8 comments in a row! Someone’s feather are ruffled.
dbmcvey
decraps is just typing nonsense.
decrans
Neither of you can refute. You resort to sarcasm again. Rather sad.
dbmcvey
@decraps
Saying that you’re typing nonsense isn’t sarcasm, it’s just a statement of Gavin Elster seems to have really triggered you.
decrans
Here comes the triggering yammering. Answer the question directly, Dickvaney. What do you say to the autism lesbian who now deeply regrets her decision with scant insurance codes? Stop your diversion. Confront it head on.
dbmcvey
Hey decraps, it’s not my fault you’re triggered.
decrans
Hey Dickvaney, It’s not my fault you claim to be a sympathetic liberal who wants to address healthcare inequities including gays and lesbians damaged in your own community and then you divert with sarcasm and triggering shtick.
johncp56
Creep look at that mouth fill it with cream and pubes
mildredspierce
Yeesh! Ritalin and a blindfold before I have to be 10 feet from him. Then some oven mits and a Dexedrine or two to touch him anywhere. Only prescription speed and sensory deprivation would make him tolerable.
Herman75
Will we soon hear that Gaetz dresses up as Satan and bangs barely legal young men?
still_onthemark
Early in his political career there were gay rumors about Gaetz, and Queerty joined in the speculation Gaetz seemed perhaps to have an excessive interest in his “stepson” Nestor who’d just turned 18. But all that talk got buried under his hetero and drug shenanigans (real or imagined). Smokescreen, to some extent?
Fname Optional Lname
Gaetz is gross.
JOEY NYC
he is so disgusting . raping under age girls across state lines why is this pig not in jail ?! oh right typical republicans dragging their feet when it comes to actually doing the right thing. Rapey Mcforehead should be locked up with the rest of the corrupt GOP douche bags that infest that disgusting maga party
LumpyPillows
I don’t mind that Gaetz is horn dog. I don’t care if he may have paid for sex, prostitution should be legal; it’s an archaic and unworkable prohibition anyway. Everything is a transaction. Ask Melania.
If he raped someone (don’t think that is true) or sexed underaged (possibly) then there is a problem.
I do really care that he is a hypocrite and is a leading reason why our congress does not work for the American people.