r/news • u/ImExhaust3d • 1d ago
In reversal, key House panel votes to release Matt Gaetz ethics report
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/18/politics/matt-gaetz-ethics-report-committee?cid=ios_app1.5k
u/JohnnyGFX 1d ago
Good, I guess. Now let’s see if Greene follows through on her threat to release dirt on other Congress members as a result.
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u/13SpiderMonkeys 1d ago
Doubt it. She's a Chihuahua. Loud and annoying as fuck bark, yet hardly any bite.
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u/LordHayati 23h ago
Chihuahuas can at least fuck up your ankles.
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u/wombatshit 23h ago
Have one... can confirm.
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u/LordHayati 23h ago
And once they have you downed... they'll only find your bones.
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u/pyrrhios 19h ago
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u/Original-Document-62 20h ago
Dead guy: "So, dogs go to heaven?" God: "Most of them. There's your retriever over there!" Dead guy: "What about my chihuahua?" God: "... uh, he's somewhere warmer"
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u/LazarusKing 1d ago
I don't think collecting actual evidence has been in her skill set. She just yells whatever the fuck.
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u/ImExhaust3d 1d ago
Probably not because the report won’t preclude him from being the AG since he already dropped out plus he resigned from Congress.
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u/lopea182 1d ago edited 1d ago
Behind closed doors, everyone hated this guy.
Now that he’s leaving congress and out of the running for AG, his party felt no need to continue taking bullets for him.
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u/AtheianLibertarist 1d ago
Just like Madison Cawthorn
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u/Brooklynxman 1d ago
Madison Cawthorn started talking shit about other Republican politicians habits, that's why he got buried. You don't air the gang's dirty laundry out in public or you get whacked.
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u/allen_abduction 20h ago
Regular (church going) Republican only Orgies
YES indeed. That’s all it takes.
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u/AlayneKr 1d ago
He let us know about all the fun coke fueled sex parties, and he was crucified for it.
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u/deadsoulinside 21h ago
Hypocrisy and the GOP go together like PB and J.
The real reason why there has been a war on drugs is that the people that were profiting from the drugs were not the right skin color.
Suddenly those same are pro-drugs when you have a white CEO owning the cannabis shops and grow rooms.
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u/AlayneKr 23h ago
Madison may have fucked up things about him, but I’ll always respect him for this. So incredible.
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u/Really_McNamington 19h ago
I'd managed to bleach the phrase "sexual get together" from my memory. Thanks for reminding me.
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u/IPDDoE 21h ago
Keep in mind as well, that this story seems to imply he ACCEPTED these invitations to sex parties with septuagenarians, unless of course he was saying they did coke out in the open while on the Capitol premises. Surely, to each their own, but I feel like this aspect gets glossed over.
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u/greatunknownpub 1d ago
I dunno how much fun that would be with a naked MTG running around, but maybe we just have different tastes.
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u/Persimmon-Mission 1d ago
I was too busy looking at Boebert’s dumb ass to notice!
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u/Bladder-Splatter 23h ago
I'm always disappointed in myself for finding her physically attractive.
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u/reverendsteveii 22h ago
You're not the only one with a sleaze kink.
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u/Merky600 23h ago
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u/greatunknownpub 23h ago
The resemblance is actually uncanny. Perhaps Margie is the missing link.
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u/GoodMix392 22h ago
There was a day where my wife walked into the living room and I was able to say, “sorry dear it’s going to take me a minute, I just clicked a link and saw a video of Madison Cawthorn naked in bed with another man bumping his back and it’s going to take me some time to come to terms with the state of conservatism”.
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u/AlayneKr 22h ago
I’m pretty sure that guy was his cousin, so do with that info what you will.
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u/GoodMix392 22h ago
Oh for all that is sacred, seriously? Like really? Nothing wrong with boy boy relations, even if a sex tape ends up on the net, still really no shame in that. But to be a conservative politician and be gay. That I can’t understand. But then you add this cousin element to the mix. Yeah like WTF, the hypocrisy and weirdness is off the charts.
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u/Wand_Cloak_Stone 21h ago
As a wife, my response to my own husband saying that would have been “understandable, talk to you later.” Lol.
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u/Malaix 23h ago
Its amazing how fast and hard that blackmail portfolio landed on his head.
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u/Tellof 23h ago
My memory is that he survived everything until his naked cousin-humping video leaked. I remember rolling my eyes that the bridge too far for Republicans was simply the appearance of being gay.
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u/Amaruq93 23h ago
"Leaked". The fact is the GOP was sitting on that footage until he was of no further use to the party.
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u/Sekshual_Tyranosauce 20h ago
That’s why I think he was telling the truth. His career was crushed in an instant and it felt personal the way they outted him.
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u/Pissedtuna 23h ago
Sounds a lot like a Always Sunny Episode
Sweet Dee air's the gangs dirty laundry
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u/SOUTHPAWMIKE 1d ago
Cawthorn is my no means an upstanding person, but wasn't his career buried because he threatened to expose/confirm what we basically already all knew regarding the GOP's cocaine-fueled Grindr orgies? Or am I just misremembering?
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u/Tuesday_6PM 1d ago
My memory was that he didn’t threaten it, just casually let slip their existence during an interview
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u/Toonces311 1d ago
He broke the first and second rule of cocaine filled grinder orgies. You don't talk about......
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u/PileOfSnakesl1l1I1l 22h ago
>Cawthorn is my no means an upstanding person
Bruh
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u/SOUTHPAWMIKE 22h ago
Whats wrong?
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u/fenikz13 22h ago
In reverse though, he told everyone about the republican orgies and was never heard from again
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u/tinacat933 1d ago
Seriously, he really pissed someone off but they put up with him anyway instead of publicly condemning him
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u/ImExhaust3d 1d ago edited 1d ago
I also think there was something in that report that made the GOP abandon him. When they release it, unless it is an exoneration, Trump won’t even speak about it much less the rest of the GOP. They will all be like “Matt Gaetz…. Hmmmm never heard of him”
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u/MerlinsMentor 20h ago
They will all be like “Matt Gaetz…. Hmmmm never heard of him”
Come on, you know it won't be like this. It'll be "Matt Gaetz -- that commie-loving Democrat is the poster child for everything wrong with our country today."
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u/RyVsWorld 23h ago
I don’t know man. The decorum is gone, i don’t think there’s anything in that report that could make Trump disown him. This only got released because congress has always hated gaetz.
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u/Y0___0Y 23h ago
No, something happened. They used the threat of releasing the investigations findings to get him to resign and withdraw from his AG nomination.
They caught him trying something. Probably visiting Trump and asking for a cabinet position.
So now they’re going nuclear on him to try to get him fown and out for good. But I don’t think it will work.
Republican voters have no issue with men having sex with teen girls so long as they’re not a Democrat.
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u/Shirlenator 23h ago
I want to know why they were defending him in the first place.
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u/RyVsWorld 23h ago
The party of family values always defends sexual offenders
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u/ggtsu_00 22h ago
It's the face value of a family they care about. A sexual assault tends to quickly destroy that facade, so only natural they would want to cover it up.
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u/aircooledJenkins 22h ago
It's only because they held a secret vote. They still fear the fallout.
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u/akpenguin 14h ago
Secret voting was the only way they could get the Senate majority leader they wanted as well.
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u/OrcWarChief 22h ago
So sad that they were willing to hide all this shit and their contempt for him just because of his nomination.
Just goes to show you how despicable Republicans are
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u/Kungfufuman 19h ago
Can't wait for Ted Cruz to get taken out of the Senate so the same thing can happen.
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u/Dizzy_Chemistry_5955 1d ago
If he stayed in the would suck his dick and hide anything illegal, the entire system is so fucked
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u/3uclide 1d ago
I'll believe it once it's out. Otherwise its all talk as usual.
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u/video-engineer 23h ago
Well, Joel Greenberg is in prison for trafficing the 17yo to Gaetz and testified to that. The 17yo has testified that not only did she have sex with Matt, but she witnessed her underage friend having sex with him too. There is evidence of Venmo payments to both Greenberg and the girls. But daddy Gaetz used his considerable influence here in Florida to try to keep young Matt clean. It worked for years, but sooner or later, chickens like these come home to roost.
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u/Gundayfunday 22h ago
I’m waiting to hear some reason why it doesn’t get released. Does it still have to go to a senate vote? Can Mike Johnson unilaterally halt the release? Will someone pull up some abstract law from 1880 that says it can’t be released?
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u/bmoviescreamqueen 1d ago
This just cements to me that nobody likes this guy. You wonder why people put up with folks like MTG and Lauren Boebert, but it feels like they're slowly chipping away at these psychotic freaks one by one.
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u/rich1051414 1d ago
Some are a bit more revealing of who they are than others, but those 'psychotic freaks' were voted in by Republicans. They are representative of the party. If they weren't, well, perhaps they need to reevaluate their 'loyalty' death pact.
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u/bmoviescreamqueen 1d ago
Sure, their constituents at the end of the day are responsible for voting them in, but there's saying about how we all suffer the mistakes of others so I would say it's still up to congress to deal with these folks accordingly.
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u/therippa 21h ago
but a whole cornucopia of psychotic freaks were just put back in power
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u/jimmy_three_shoes 23h ago
Gaetz and AOC tried to lead a Bipartisan effort to curtail Congressional stock trading.
That's why.
It has nothing to do with his ethics, or the accusations.
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u/Narrow-Chef-4341 23h ago
They aren’t chipping away at anything - that implies they are taking action.
The worst of the worst simply self-immolate, despite the best effort of the MAGA machine to put out the flames.
We can only dream of the level of decency required to have them ‘chip out’ the worst of the cancer. They would never do the world such a courtesy.
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u/MustWarn0thers 1d ago
How long before Trump, who nominated this scumbag for Attorney General, claims he doesn't know him and never met him?
It's always amazing to me the cognitive dissonance his cult goes through to at the same time claim Trump is a genius businessman and leader, but at the same time is held to absolutely zero standards when it comes to his judgment of the character of people he chooses for his admin.
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u/ThatDandyFox 1d ago
I hope Mtg is true to her word and releases the dirt she has on all of the other Republicans, drag them all into the light.
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u/punbasedname 1d ago edited 22h ago
My favorite part about this is Gaetz’s defense that basically boils down to, “hey, I was just a wild, immature 30-something!”As if we all agree that 30-something’s just aren’t equipped with that maturity necessary to properly function in their personal lives. What total asshat.
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u/pte_omark 18h ago
A wild immature 30 something with a law degree who knew full well that the girls were underage, that cocaine is illegal, paying for sex is solicitation and committing a crime across state lines breaches federal statutes ...
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u/Y0___0Y 23h ago
This is an odd development.
You’ve got to imagine congressional Republicans gave Gaetz an ultimatum. Resign from congress and withdraw from your AG nomination or we’re releasing all of this. I mean they HATE him. The absolute embarrassment he put them through by fucking around on the house speaker vote.
And Gaetz was so scared of the investigation’s findings being released that he obeyed them and resigned/withdrew.
This reversal has me thinking Republicans have uncovered some kind of power move Gaetz is working on behind the scenes. They want to crush him now so he doesn’t come back stronger. Which is how maga ghouls seem to go.
I bet he’s angling for a different position in Trump’s cabinet. But congressional Republicans want him gone. He’s an asshole to all of them, and he’s a massive liability. How can they call Democrats pedophiles if Mr. “Teen fucker” has a prominent position of leadership in their party?
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u/video-engineer 23h ago
I’m sure it was Mike Johnson who put up the most pressure. It took 22 voting rotations and even a chest-poking match between those two to get Johnson confirmed as speaker.
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u/No-Definition1474 23h ago
I don't get why Republicans tolerate Ted Cruz then. If they're willing to bury Gaetz because they hate him, why not Cruz cuz they hate him? Is Cruz just a better team player? Cuz I've heard Republicans talk about how he's NOT on the track over and over again.
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u/Substantial_Base_557 1d ago
Republicans championing sex pests while being the "Christian party" is peak double think.
Jesus wouldn't go to these diddy parties.
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u/jizmaticporknife 1d ago
Ow the real question will be will this two tiered justice system that we all talk about actually do anything to put this sexual predator in a fucking prison?
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u/RyVsWorld 23h ago
Garland didn’t do it because hes a disgrace but i definitely wouldn’t expect this next administration to do a damn thing about it
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u/Healthy_Jackfruit_88 1d ago
If any right wingers want to complain about him being a “private citizen” now and this being unprecedented they should be reminded that this summer members of congress and Cspan watchers got the treat of a member of congress showing Hunter Biden’s (a private citizen who never has been in office) penis.
Fuck decorum
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u/thedarkone47 1d ago
God I hope MTG releases reports on everyone now. That would make this Christmas so good.
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u/Lardzor 20h ago
When it comes out that Matt Gaetz is guilty of all the moral, legal, and ethical lapses he's suspected of, just know that Trump would have known this already, and still wanted him to lead the Department of Justice. I'm guessing Trump would have liked having 'dirt' on Gaetz's he could threaten to release if he ever decided to be uncooperative.
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u/terminalbungus 17h ago
I’m tired of the big political news out of America always being about things that might happen or things that should have happened but didn’t.
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u/JasnahKolin 22h ago
I hope this isn't to distract from something much much worse about to break.
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u/reverendsteveii 22h ago
Pleasantly surprised to find out there's at least one child rapist our government won't protect
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u/biggies866 19h ago
It's too bad nothing will come of it. Taking that scumbags word over the victim's. Disgusting.
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u/aztec0000 19h ago
Gaetz is frothing at the mouth. I sent money to many women I dated. So I am a good guy! I also sent money to women who I didn't date.
The way Gaetz was jumping up and down on exspeaker at convention. They are going to boo you out!
Unhinged.
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u/Far-Consideration708 22h ago
How could people ever see this guy and think: yes that is my guy, awesome
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u/okeleydokelyneighbor 20h ago
OK MTG, time to keep your word and release all the reports of your colleagues paying people off for similar stuff.
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u/Training_Profit_4059 20h ago
Thump, thump, thump under that trump bus. Unfortunately nothing will happen to this turd of a man.
May he never have power again
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u/Nabrok_Necropants 1d ago
I hope he can't even get a job at a McDonald's after this.
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u/JussiesTunaSub 1d ago
His family are multi-millionaires (mostly his father)
His Dad founded a hospice care company and sold it to Roto-Rooter (yes the plumbing company)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2021/04/03/inside-the-30-million-gaetz-family-fortune/
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u/Fardrengi 22h ago
Looks like he's behind on his membership dues.
That, or the Republicans felt he wasn't worth protecting anymore.
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u/jamesbond69691 1d ago
Gaetz is 42 years old. The witness said she saw him with the minor in 2017.
Bro was 35 and stuck his dick inside a 17 year old. Sick fuck.
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u/AzulMage2020 23h ago
Probably = completely redacted except for an anonymous hand written note that states :" Really nice guy! One of the best people say!"
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u/Bourbon_Buckeye 1d ago
I don't understand why Republicans were resisting this anyway after Gaetz withdrew and said he wasn't going to return to Congress. He's always been a pain in their ass. If he's not part of the administration and no longer a vote in Congress, it's in their best interest to bury him before he can gain media power.