Things are looking absolutely terrible for Matt Gaetz as more and more damning details about his teen sex scandal come to light.
Multiple media outlets are now reporting that he sent his buddy, accused sex trafficker Joel Greenberg, $900 via Venmo back in May 2018.
The very next morning, Greenberg used the same app to pay three young women various amounts of money that ultimately amounted to, you guessed it, $900.
The Daily Beast reports:
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The memo field for the first of Gaetz’s transactions to Greenberg was titled “Test.” In the second, the Florida GOP congressman wrote “hit up ___.” But instead of a blank, Gaetz wrote a nickname for one of the recipients. (The Daily Beast is not sharing that nickname because the teenager had only turned 18 less than six months before.) When Greenberg then made his Venmo payments to these three young women, he described the money as being for “Tuition,” “School,” and “School.”
Sooooo that’s pretty incriminating.
But it gets worse.
Because now Greenberg is said to be negotiating a plea deal with prosecutors, which would be absolutely disastrous for Gaetz as it means his old pal would be cooperating with investigators in their probe against him.
“I am sure Matt Gaetz is not feeling very comfortable today,” Greenberg’s attorney Fritz Scheller told reporters yesterday outside the federal courthouse in Orlando.
Oh, but it doesn’t stop there.
As the situation grows more dire for Gaetz, his senior staff are jumping ship.
Yahoo News reports:
Two senior Gaetz staffers have also resigned since the Justice Department investigation became public. On Thursday, the New York Times reported that Devin Murphy, Gaetz’s legislative director, had stepped down. His resignation followed that of Gaetz’s former communications director, Luke Ball.
On top of that, his former advisor, Nathan Nelson, confirmed that he’s been approached by FBI agents about the embattled congressman’s alleged illegal activities.
And just to add a little insult to injury, a billboard has popped in Florida taking aim at him. It features a photo of his face along with the caption “Matt Gaetz wants to ‘date’ your child.”
The billboard is up! Please share with @mattgaetz We are https://t.co/g2orQKVoYx Shop or support. pic.twitter.com/sI6OUCQlbt
— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) April 7, 2021
Gaetz, who, coincidentally, was the only member of the U.S. House to vote against a human trafficking bill in 2017, has maintained his innocence throughout this whole thing and claims he is the victim of a $25 million extortion plot.
Here’s what people on Twitter are saying about the whole thing…
Adam Kinzinger is the first Republican to call on Matt Gaetz to resign because all the other ones are busy deleting their Venmo histories.
— Jake Lobin (@JakeLobin) April 9, 2021
So it was @mattgaetz in the basement of the pizza shop this whole time!!
— Welcome Back USA ???? ??? (@GopBelieveme) April 9, 2021
Matt Gaetz is that friend who keeps his Venmo public and pays for weed by putting “smokey treats” in the memo
— Matt Goldich (@MattGoldich) April 2, 2021
New: Matt Gaetz Venmo Screenshot… pic.twitter.com/mS744Vppvh
— YS (@NYinLA2121) April 9, 2021
Matt Gaetz was the only member of Congress to vote against the human trafficking bill.
— Andrew Goss ?USAF? (@Goss30Goss) April 9, 2021
MATT GAETZ: I never paid for sex.
But did you VENMO the guy who did? Cause that's pretty bad too.
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) April 2, 2021
Matt Gaetz voted against providing Americans a stimulus check but Venmoed $900 of our money for his personal stimulus.
— ?????? ???? (@Sundae_Gurl) April 9, 2021
Matt Gaetz being told his Venmo history is public pic.twitter.com/amD4IQbsgB
— Untitled Snowman Comedy (@brendanowicz) April 9, 2021
Matt Gaetz did NOT pay children to exploit them sexually. He paid the guy who paid the children. There's a difference.
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) April 9, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Josh447
OMG that billboard!
jackmister
That means those three girls only got paid $300 each to do Gaetz?
Girls, you need to improve your standards. And raise your price.
ryanss
I hope Nestor is fine…
Fahd
Gee that’s too bad about Gaetz getting caught paying the pimp.
SteveM
The sooner Gaetz winds up in jail and shares a cell with a big, bald-headed dude named Bubba, the better off the US will be.
Kevan1
Your forgetting Trump, his family and his cronies. All of them need a butt loving Bubba.
laurent7465
Lets not forget the front end. We also need in said cell(s) a big D white punk named Travis to throat fk them all until they gag, over and over and puke. That’s a start anyway.
blackhook
Good riddance to bad MAGA Trash!
WSnyder
Just wait…He’ll soon throw Nestor under the bus saying he paid his buddy so Nestor could get laid.
southernscot
So just remind me, do we hate him because of his anti LGBTQ stance while secretly in a relationship with Nestor his ‘son’, or because he is paying for sex with women, of which some might be young enough to be his daughter? Totally confused, maybe that’s his plan! Is he hoping that people are more comfortable with an indiscretion with a young woman more than one with a young man?
Den
The whole Nestor thing was wild, if amusing, speculation originating with gay rags like this.
By contrast the heterosex/underage/trafficking scandal is real, with meat and bones behind the allegations that may well bring the creep’s political career (and freedom) to an end.
None of his peers reacted to the Nestor thing at all, but many are distancing themselves over this, and few are defending him.
GayEGO
Ha ha ha! Oh my! Gaetz is a naughty boy!