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 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...
- 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.

Paying under age people for sex is crime in every state and I think federal too
But nothing will be done now
Biden didn't do anything either mind you!
But when a parasite got wacked in NYC, they found some guy within a week and charges are already filed
Justice lol

Call it as it is, a child. A minor is a child. He had sex with a child.

More crimes they can sweep under the rug!
Edit: I have to wonder if they're just gloating now, since there's never any punishment. Are they like "look at all these crimes we committed that you can't do anything about!"?

He should just ask Biden for a pardon.

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