Matt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state laws

www.cbsnews.com Matt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state laws

A report by the House Ethics Committee found former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid multiple women, including a 17-year-old girl, for sex.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican who briefly stood to become President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be attorney general, was found by congressional ethics investigators to have paid numerous women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex, and to have purchased and used illegal drugs, including from his Capitol Hill office, according to a final draft of a comprehensive investigative report obtained by CBS News.

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Matt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state laws

www.cbsnews.com /news/matt-gaetz-ethics-report-released/

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Matt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state laws

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Bummer that voters will forget about this by the time the mid-terms roll around. The Republicans fought tooth and nail to keep this under wraps in full knowledge that Gaetz was participating in the rape of minors.
(The drug use I couldn't care less about, and I'd argue that no one should.)
- I wouldn't care about the drug use either except that 1) it's illegal 2) it's an ethics violation 3) he was going to be attorney general.
  If Rapey McHairdo had a (D) after their name they would be in jail
  
  You're welcome to your opinion. I think all drugs should be legal, personally.
  
  I am not disagreeing about the drugs. My point was their legality. If I am sworn to uphold a set a laws and I do not, then I am a hypocrite. If I swear to abide by a code of ethics and I do not, then I am a hypocrite.
  I believe that drugs should be legal and health care should be free.
  I also believe that Matt Gaetz is a rapist piece of shit.
  
  Thank you. I understand your meaning.
  I don't hold the law sacrosanct when it's observably stupid and oppressive.
- Normally, yes the drug thing shouldn't be something we care about too much. But I'm pretty sure the drug use is a very valid thing to care about, especially with the allegation that he was giving drugs to minors, and this: "one woman told the committee the use of drugs at the parties and events they attended may have "impair[ed their] ability to really know what was going on or fully consent.""
  
  I think it's pretty clear we're referring to consenting adults using drugs recreationally from the context of this discussion.
  No reasonable person thinks it's right to drug a teenager and rape them.
  
  Matt Gaetz is not reasonable.
- I don't care about the drug use either, but I absolutely care that he supplied drugs to children. That shit harms development and makes consent, which is already pretty tepid with a 17 year old, an ethical nightmare. Not that he cares about ethics...

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