The House Ethics Committee has records showing Matt Gaetz allegedly paid more than $10,000 to two women who later testified in front of the panel, ABC News has learned.
  • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Lol isn’t venmo that social network that makes all your payments public?

    What a dumbass. Quick, check if he bought cocaine on it too

    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      Im sure that means his career is over, right?

      Correct!

      He’s been promoted to a different career.

    • ultranaut@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      “When you’re a star, they let you do it”

      The Republican party, and a shocking number of people in general, are perfectly fine with whatever. They don’t actually have any kind of genuine moral or ethical system. I feel like such a fucking old man now talking like this but goddamn is it gross that a guy who paid children for sex is going to be the Attorney General, that is not how it worked when I grew up. I mean, it was how it worked but if you got caught that was it. Everyone shunned you and your career in public service was over, you had to go work as a lobbyist or sit on some corporate boards and keep your head down.

    • ditty@lemm.eeEnglish
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      23 hours ago

      I mean, it might make it ever so slightly harder for him to be confirmed by the Senate…maybe?

  • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
    11·
    18 hours ago

    Women? Or underage girls?

    And if this was to keep them quiet, he sure learned a lot from his dear Leader didn’t he

    • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      He fucked the underaged girls and paid off the of-age witnesses. Seems he doesn’t have an interest in fucking people over 17

    • TheLowestStone@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      The Venmo records show that between July 2017 and late January 2019, Gaetz – who was first elected in 2016 – allegedly made 27 Venmo payments totaling $10,224.02 to the two witnesses, who were over the age of 18 at the time.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    If Trump is going to appoint a pedo, can he at least find one someone who worked more than 2 years as a legal secretary associate attorney?

    This guy is a career politician, not an attorney.

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    22 hours ago

    He also wrote a check with a memo that said “tuition reimbursement.” Just pisspoor criminality. Even high school weed dealers know not to leave a paper trail and use cash. (Or maybe whatever anonymous cryptocurrency the dark web uses nowadays. I haven’t talked to a high school weed dealer since I was in high school many moons ago. You could tell me kids buy weed with Roblox Buxx and I’d believe you.)

  • NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    People on the internet: well he was never indicted and convicted so we should let it all go

    Me: so what was all that money for? Braces?

    • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      He has too much money to be held accountable. People with that much money only get held accountable if their crime is against others with that much money.

    • Tujio@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      William Barr said there was no wrongdoing. And he’s a paragon of virtue. Absolutely no problematic connections to pedophiles whatsoever.

    • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      These were supposedly payments for innocent things like school and supplies. Gaetz just gets a lot if joy from people learning and living humble decent lives.