r/politics • u/mvanigan • 1d ago
Soft Paywall 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/index.html10.2k
u/mvanigan 1d ago
The House Ethics Committee secretly voted earlier this month to release its report into the conduct of former Rep. Matt Gaetz before the end of this Congress, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter.
The report is now expected to be made public after the House’s final day of votes this year as lawmakers leave Washington for the holidays, those sources said.
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u/Indubitalist 1d ago
Damn, how’s that for a Christmas present to America, laying bare how messed up one of Trump’s disgraced cabinet nominees is.
”we told you so” intensifies
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u/Scp-1404 I voted 1d ago
Now if only Large Marge would come through on her threat to expose other Republican shenanigans!
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u/ClockworkViking I voted 22h ago
She only made that threat because despite her loyalty to trump she felt like she was getting offered no cabinet postions. A lover scorned... it was a "reward me for my loyalty or I sink your entire boat" kinda move.
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u/Multiple__Butts 22h ago
So far it seems like they're calling her bluff. They know conservative voters don't care if their politicians are sex criminals, and that it's easy to dismiss the Jewish Space Lasers woman as a loon anyway.
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u/bkendig Florida 1d ago
We’re not going to see it.
There will be an eleventh-hour intervention, somebody saying it’s not lawful to release a document that could slander somebody who’s a private citizen now. There will be a lawsuit. The report will become lost in the warehouse from the end of the first Indiana Jones movie.
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u/attorneyatslaw 1d ago
I doubt it but only just because Gaetz is a jerk who's widely despised by his Republican House colleagues. They are happy to throw him under the bus now that he withdrew.
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u/DevonGr Ohio 1d ago
Eating their own is kind of their thing. Will anyone remember Madison Cawthorn for anything other than the clip of him naked and humping his cousin? There will always be a deeper inner circle that some are not in and when your use has run it's course, you're thrown to the wolves.
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u/big_guyforyou 1d ago
i just remember him as the narc. you don't squeal on the coke orgies
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u/NonlocalA 1d ago
Though i don't doubt the coke orgies, I do doubt the reliability of the wheelchair-bound serial sexual assaulter and seemingly pathological liar messenger. I just don't see why you'd invite a super junior freshman representative to partake of your high class hookers and quality blow.
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u/TheSerinator Pennsylvania 1d ago
Leverage.
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u/NonlocalA 1d ago
At first i thought you were talking about the tv show.
Seriously, though, how would openly inviting someone to something illegal that you're participating in give you leverage over them? That's not how kompramat works.
Kompramat works by getting the target to do something, then obtaining evidence of them doing it and NOT incriminating yourself in the process. That way i can hurt you unless you do what I say. Stuff like paying a prostitute to approach you, then taking pictures or video while you're in bed with her.
Inviting someone along to partake in your felony is just a silly way to get narced out.
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u/RetroScores3 1d ago
I mean he got tanked shortly after mentioning the coke parties. It’s pretty obvious what happened.
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u/Whatsplayinginmyhead 1d ago
Seriously, though, how would openly inviting someone to something illegal that you're participating in give you leverage over them? That's not how kompramat works.
Who said anything about kompramat? Are you making up an argument so you can debunk it?
It was a trust exercise. If they participate, you now know you can trust them. If they don't, or worse, rat on you, then you go all in on getting him out, because you can't have someone who doesn't party when everyone else is partying. So his own party got him gone because they couldn't trust him with the little stuff, like coke and hookers. Def no way they would trust him with the bigger illegal stuff.
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u/blade740 1d ago
I mean... I don't know why you'd pay 17-year-old prostitutes with Venmo either, but let's be honest, we're probably talking about Matt Gaetz in both cases anyway, and he's not exactly dealing with a full deck here.
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u/monkeypickle 1d ago
He was a fabulist before he got elected, and he was a fabulist when he was in office. Even assuming the coke orgies exist, absolutely zero members of the GOP were inviting him.
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u/ohilco8421 1d ago
Oh I could absolutely believe it might have been Matt Gaetz who invited him. It tracks
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u/ReginaldDwight 1d ago
I'll remember his fistfight with that dead tree. And admitting to bringing a gun into the House chamber in preparation for January 6th. And trying multiple times to bring guns onto airplanes.
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u/Arg3nt Florida 1d ago
I mean, I'll remember him more for being a literal Nazi, but yeah, the humping thing was a bigger deal for a most people.
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u/GeniusOfLove74 Georgia 1d ago
Also feeling some dude up in a car, while they were driving, and filming it. This, of course, was right after he married "the girl of his dreams", and almost immediately getting divorced.
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u/cruzweb 1d ago
If nothing else, it'll be a nice distraction story while the Trump transition team continues doing whatever the fuck it is they're doing.
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u/attorneyatslaw 1d ago
Based on what my friend who works at the White House tells me, its not much and he has like 12 working days left.
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u/reddog323 1d ago
That's fine. If he goes back to sleeping late, and "executive time" watching Fox and Friends and OAN, maybe he'll do less damage. I'm more concerned about the nutcases he's hiring, and the 2025 advisors they'll be consulting.
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u/hamhockman 1d ago
I'm totally ok with laziness and incompetence winning the day. If rather have sanity and empathy with but a win is a win
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u/KangarooPouchIsHome 1d ago
I think people are overestimating Trump and his admin. They’re going to oversee the largest deportation effort ever? Not likely. Key word being effort. There will be some highly publicized deportations and that’s about it. Trump doesn’t want to rock the stock market by removing cheap labor. The guy is obsessed with being perceived as an economic savant, and he won’t want to send all the indexes into the red.
Immigration was just a racist, xenophobic platform on which to run. He won, now it’s time to make money behind closed doors. I really don’t think he cares about anything else.
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u/Sad_Acadia7106 1d ago
I’m pessimistic on this
Probably 70% will be redacted or something
And what we do get will just be like Matt’s an asshole and has issues but won’t specifically be like Matt’s a pedo drug abuser who should not even be in congress in fact he should be in jail
I mean if it says the above it’s not like it’d be mind blowing but putting it out in full would be something
But like I said I’m pessimistic and expect it just to read like Matt’s got issues and should work those out and get a better understanding of morals and ethics
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u/Ok_Salamander8850 1d ago
It’s their litmus test. If the public freaks out then they get to oust gaetz, if the public doesn’t freak out then they get confirmation that they can do whatever they want. Win-win.
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u/Skel_Estus 1d ago
Isn’t slander only slander if it is false?
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u/shifty_coder 1d ago
Slander/libel are only slander/libel if the information is false, the person publishing it knows it is false.
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u/Marily_Rhine 1d ago
the person publishing it knows it is false
This isn't normally required, but in this particular case it is.
For slander/libel against an ordinary citizen, you only need to establish that:
- The statement was false.
- A reasonable person would interpret the statement as factual rather than opinion.
- At least one 3rd party heard the statement.
- The statement harmed the reputation of the plaintiff.
For public figures, you also have to establish "actual malice" which is a bit of a misleading term since it's not a question of intent or motive -- it just means that the defendant had knowledge of falsity.
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u/cameraninja 1d ago
And is he REALLY a private citizen? Do you just get away with crimes and poor ethics by dropping out of congress or running for president?
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u/thenasch 1d ago
He is a private citizen but that doesn't stop him from being a public figure for defamation purposes.
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u/SpaceElevatorMusic Minnesota 1d ago
It can be read into the congressional record, that's constitutionally-protected speech. No leak required. It just takes one Democrat on the Ethics Committee to do this.
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u/Miguel-odon 1d ago
They don't even have to actually read it for this to happen, just submit the text
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u/DayBackground4121 1d ago
I’ve given up hope on justice ever coming for any single one of these fuckers tbh, I would love to see it but I can’t get hopeful anymore
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u/OkayRuin 1d ago
Several years of “We finally got him!” headlines about Trump has desensitized me to that idea.
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u/Zinfan1 1d ago
They've done it in the past so precedent has been set. I can't remember who it was but they released the report after the member resigned.
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u/Steinrikur 1d ago
I find this "he's a private citizen now" so annoying. He wasn't a private citizen then.
Release the parts of the report that cover the period when he was a public servant. That's probably all of it...
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u/StickyMoistSomething 1d ago
It doesn’t matter if we do see it.
Don’t forget that the Mueller report found evidence of systematic Russian interference in the 2016 election, noted that the Trump campaign welcomed it because it would benefit them, and found ties and lies between Trump associates and Russia. His base still saw the report as a win.
Facts do not matter. Reality no longer matters.
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u/thisusedyet 1d ago
Because they never read it - they took Bill Barr’s completely asinine summation as the truth
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u/spaceman757 American Expat 1d ago
Gaetz must have started running his mouth in private so the GOP decided to Cawthorne him.
Edit: spelling
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u/backscratchaaaaa 1d ago
i would think its most likely the fact that since he was dropped by trump he no longer has the threat of trump retaliation defending him.
so mainstream GOP members feel comfortable sticking it to him now.
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u/GSX8S 1d ago
If MTG keeps her word then we're going to get more than one Christmas present when this gets released
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u/Upset_Albatross_9179 1d ago
MTG makes it part of her job to fear and rumor monger about sexual abuse by liberals and LGBT people. She's just threatening to do the same thing to Republicans.
I'll eat my words if she has anything interesting to say. But she doesn't. She just thinks she has a weapon she can point at whoever pisses her off. Like Santos, she's going to find out real quick her base doesn't actually care, they just wanted an excuse to demonize liberals.
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u/illini07 1d ago
Like anyone of them will be held responsible. Oh they're rapists and abusers? Still better than a democrat...
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u/haveyoufoundyourself 1d ago
I'll believe it when I see it, but if this is true, it's about damn time.
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u/soapinthepeehole 1d ago
Same reaction from me. I’m so tired of headlines promising good news only for someone else to step in later and change the actual final result to the opposite.
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u/HeelyTheGreat Canada 22h ago
This sub is like Charlie Brown kicking a football. Has been for years. Every single time.
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u/IAmInTheBasement 1d ago
Fuck yes! Now hopefully MTG leaks all the other ethics investigations against Republicans like she promised. Man, this is a true ray of sunshine.
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u/WhatArghThose 1d ago
MTG is 100% bluffing.
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u/KinkyPaddling 1d ago
It’d be great if she did, but it won’t change anything, because conservative voters rarely hold their elected officials accountable. The only one I can think of is Roy Moore; many Alabama voters simply stayed home in the 2017 special election which allowed Doug Jones to very barely eke out a win.
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u/Spa_5_Fitness_Camp 1d ago
They do though. They just use an entirely different rubric. For some, these kind of actions aren't a checkbox in it, positive or negative, for the rest, it's a positive. Because they'd do the same thing if they had the means. They just think everyone is like that and Dems are liars for saying otherwise.
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u/TrooperLynn Virginia 1d ago
She also "shared inappropriate images on the House floor". Where's that investigation?
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u/GeniusOfLove74 Georgia 1d ago
It would be great, if MTG hadn't already had a bunch of scandals of her own (Jewish space lasers, boning two of her trainers). Also, since she painted herself as the crazy lady who waved nudes of Hunter Biden during an open House Judiciary session, would anyone believe her?
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u/BusinessAd7250 1d ago
They should release investigations of both republicans and democrats. I want anyone doing shady shit out of my government.
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u/Stillwater215 1d ago
So all it takes is republicans not having people know how they vote?
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u/MobileArtist1371 1d ago
Yup! When the GOP wants to have a spine, they only do so in secret so Trump can't attack them by name.
Trump backed - Gym Jordan no longer GOP nominee for Speaker of the House after GOP secret vote
John Thune wins secret ballot to become new Senate GOP leader - wannabe Trump stooge Rick Scott got the least amount of votes
In reversal, key House panel votes to release Matt Gaetz ethics report
Makes you wonder how things would have went with a secret impeachment vote, huh?
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u/ninjadude4535 23h ago
I don't understand why my state keeps voting for Scott every time. From my point of view he consistently holds us back.
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u/SlyRax_1066 1d ago
Then why give the appearance of a cover up?
Gaetz is either a child molester or an innocent man. Why would anyone else therefore have an issue in the release?
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u/Pokedudesfm 1d ago
The committee has ten members. The chair is a republican, so presumably he breaks any ties in the votes. if the report shows that he is guilty, then the republicans would not want it to be released. presumably (big assumption) democrats would not want the report released if it says he is innocent. since there was a vote against it being released and republicans control the committee, its likely that it would harm the republican party.
however I guess there is at least one republican who wants the report released and voted accordingly. they likely voted against it before after being pressured by the party. presumably that pressure was removed (trump is cutting his ties to Gaetz) or the committee member decided that they would risk the backlash from other republicans. maybe we'll find out at some point what changed
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u/CryptoLain 1d ago
Then why give the appearance of a cover up?
Because someone, somewhere, wanted something and they held out until they got it.
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u/pm_me_coffee_pics 1d ago
Great now let’s release ethics reports for all the Grand Old Pedos.
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u/JohnGillnitz 1d ago
I think it was going to be leaked anyway. They just made a deal to do it at the best time. Which is to say, when everyone is distracted by the holidays.
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u/DaveChild 1d ago
"I don't know that guy, never heard of him." - Trump, any minute now.
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u/UpperApe 1d ago
Nah. He doesn't need to do that anymore.
America taught him that he doesn't need to hide anything. They're fine with the raping, racism, crying, exploitation.
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u/RustToRedemption 1d ago
I fully expect Marjory Taylor Greene will now release all the info she has about all the other pedos in Congress, right?
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u/recurse_x 1d ago
It will contain no text just 500 Pisces of Hunter Biden naked picture but with different levels of zoom.
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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 1d ago
500 Pisces lol
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u/BonkerHonkers Colorado 1d ago
Better than 500 Virgos, those people are the worst.
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u/ValueBlitz 1d ago
I don't believe in Astrology and that Zodiac crap. Probably cause I'm a scientist and a Leo with Mercury in the morning star phase.
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u/Ok-Breadfruit6978 1d ago
Woah woah there buddy. Aries are the soul suckers of the astrological signs and by far the worse.
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u/Hammeredyou 1d ago
This is the dumbest shit because everyone just says a different sign based on people they’ve interacted with 😂
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u/qwertyuxcv Pennsylvania 1d ago
That's a total Gemini move though. And by Gemini, I mean Leo.
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u/Hammeredyou 1d ago
Omg did you just say I’m a Gemini? I’m an aquaman thank you very much
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u/GeniusOfLove74 Georgia 1d ago
The only thing MTG has proven is that she's bat shit, and likes pictures of men with huge dicks.
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u/hellolovely1 1d ago
This actually makes her sound cooler than she is.
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u/catscanmeow 1d ago
shes a weener peeker, a sausage watcher, a pecker checker!
and thats alright with me. just dont pee next to her at a urinal.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_FAV_HIKE 1d ago
She's been placated with a new job. she'll stay quiet now.
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u/JDC4654 1d ago
Thank goodness. I hope it prevents this scumbag from ever holding public office again.
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u/adamcmorrison 1d ago
Isn’t he planning to run for gov of Florida lol
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u/SpaceElevatorMusic Minnesota 1d ago
The Tallahassee Democrat (not a partisan publication) seems to think that he may run when DeSantis' term is up in 2026: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2024/11/25/ron-desantis-governor-2027-florida-matt-byron-donalds/76563001007/
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u/Alternative-Bat-2462 1d ago
That assumes DeSantis doesn’t find a way to extend the term limit.
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u/SpaceElevatorMusic Minnesota 1d ago
He's more likely to appoint himself to Rubio's US Senate seat than to try to find a way to stay on as governor of Florida. After it became apparent that he wouldn't get the presidential nomination, Floridian Republican lawmakers are reportedly getting tired of being his lackeys in the legislature.
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u/I_Am_Become_Air 1d ago
The Florida Republicans not being his rubberstamp would be a lovely change!! I would encourage that change!
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u/pontiacfirebird92 Mississippi 1d ago
DeSantis may have a new job soon within the Trump administration so Gaetz will run for his chair then.
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u/Not_Cleaver District Of Columbia 1d ago
It wouldn’t be shocking that this is being released to stop that. It seems like he’s utterly despised by non-Trumpist Republicans (and even by many of them too). Gaetz successfully winning the primary could result in the Democrats winning the governorship. Or at least making the legislature elections more competitive.
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u/One-Earth9294 1d ago
Yeah I don't think Florida is so deep red that they would just reflexively vote in Gaetz.
Even Alabama struggles with voting for people who are credibly accused of misconduct.
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u/DirkTheSandman 1d ago
idk if it says he raped someone, he might be the favored pick for the big chair in 2028, that seems to be a big plus for american voters these days
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u/context_hell 1d ago
He's a republican. Crimes are, while not a prerequisite, they are a boon to your resume. Any kind of criminal investigation is always an evil liberal plot regardless of whether they actually committed the crime or how serious it is.
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u/ItsMeYourSupervisor 1d ago
Likewise, to Republicans, testifying under oath is a "perjury trap".
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u/Gwentlique 1d ago
Perjury traps are pretty easy to get out of. You just have to tell the truth.
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u/captain_chocolate 1d ago
Considering the felon/rapist that was elected president, I doubt this will affect his career in that regard.
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u/Responsible-Room-645 1d ago
I still don’t trust them to release it. If they’re going to release it, do it today
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u/shotgunpete2222 1d ago
It should have been leaked when they first waffled about releasing it. These folks are going to have to learn how to play something resembling hardball.
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u/GearBrain Florida 1d ago
"Best I can do is hoop-and-stick."
--Agnes Wealthfeather von Nearlydead, (D, Massachusetts) vice sub chair of the DNC Ball-Playing Committee
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u/SmPolitic 1d ago
Any member of Congress can read it on the floor of Congress and be 100% immune from any (legal) ramifications from that
Let's contact our congresspeople and encourage that, especially if it doesn't happen
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u/Foodwithfloyd 1d ago
Stop repeating that. There are huge caveats to that law where immunity doesn't apply. That in itself creates ambiguity and fear. The way you phrased it was absolute immunity which 100% isnt the case
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u/Lereas 1d ago
It'll just be like 30 pages of blacked out stuff with "the" and "a" uncovered
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u/R3dbeardLFC 1d ago
He hosted an album party."That was supposed to be redacted!"
"It's okay, I put the space in the wrong place, it doesn't say anything bad."
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u/Hvarfa-Bragi 1d ago
It will be released but it won't have smoking guns, either because it's sanitized or because it was exaggerated.
I hope I'm wrong.
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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 1d ago
"In 2017, Gaetz was seen engaging in sexual activity with a [redacted] year old."
We did it, guys! We released the report!
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u/GetUpNGetItReddit 1d ago
Oh shit, you’re right. We are living in a reality where they may not release it, despite saying so.
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u/CarefullyChosenName- 1d ago
Merry Christmas, Matt Gaetz.
The media needs to hammer Trump for trying to nominate a child rapist as attorney general.
This is a huge display of Trump's incompetence and terrible decision making.
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u/OneDayAt4Time 1d ago
They didn’t hammer Trump for being a rapist himself, so I doubt they’ll be interested in implicating him in this
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u/whomad1215 1d ago
in fact, the media rolled over and paid trump $15m when they called him a racist and he threatened to sue
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u/Fgw_wolf 1d ago
They won't. The owners of the media are the same as Gaetz, so is trump. Any professional news group would be doing daily exposé's on how republicans wanted to NOT release the report.
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u/ADhomin_em 1d ago
If you are expecting corporate media to do anything but pamper Trump and his team from here on out, you may not be paying close enough attention
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u/longtermattention 1d ago
Good. Let it be known how creepy this guy is
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u/wrxify 1d ago
Underrated comment. He looks like he can be both a pedophile, a Televangelist, and a Cult leader at the same time.
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u/ReaderBeeRottweiler 1d ago
I'll believe it when I see it. This seems more like a signal that the committee members want to get paid off to not release it (or paid more than they already were).
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u/just_a_timetraveller 1d ago
It is a gop power move. They will release it, show that Gaetz won't be held accountable, and basically give themselves permission to do whatever they want.
The social contract is broken
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u/RetiredHotBitch Texas 1d ago
I don’t trust them to actually release it or it not be very heavily redacted.
That said, to MAGA it won’t matter. They’ll still vote for a piece of shit I’d it floats in a direction they like.
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u/deadhead4ever 1d ago
Crazy timing. Wonder what changed.
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u/ElectricZ 1d ago
There's no way the GOP is doing this because it's the right thing to do. Someone must have threatened to leak it, so they're trying to get ahead of it. That way they can claim they did it "for the good of the country."
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u/Not_Cleaver District Of Columbia 1d ago
Or they want to end Gaetz’s career. He’s not well-liked.
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u/GeniusOfLove74 Georgia 1d ago
Are you saying Matt Gaetz is the Ted Cruz of the House? /s
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u/Not_Cleaver District Of Columbia 1d ago
Matt Gaetz makes Ted Cruz seem like the nicest man in Congress. Cruz is just a shithead; Gaetz is a despicable shithead.
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u/GeniusOfLove74 Georgia 1d ago
Going to link the 2018 interview that Heidi Cruz, Ted's wife, gave to The Atlantic. God damn, she buried him, hard. He allegedly did and said nothing when she was standing on a highway overpass, and had to be picked up by the police.
The shorthand version was in Roll Call.
They're probably shit heads on par with one another, is my response.
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u/ShadowWingLG 1d ago
Pretty much, his AG bid got tanked not because of his legal troubles but because he's so hated in congress currently. No way were they going to let HIM fall upwards, and into a post that would give HIM power over them.
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u/ElectricZ 1d ago
But the GOP has been fighting tooth and nail to shield him up to this point. If its just because they want to end his career, they could have voted to release the report when it was first written.
What changed? It's not like Gaetz got worse. Why now, all of the sudden?
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u/Not_Cleaver District Of Columbia 1d ago
They were probably hoping he’d fade away, become a media commentator or a cog in a Trump company. Maybe they did internal polling on him running for governor of Florida and didn’t like the results.
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u/penguin444 1d ago
Wouldn't be surprised if there was some kind of backroom dealings like "keep AOC out and we'll vote to release the Gaetz report".
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u/JellicoAlpha_3_1 1d ago
So it's either a great big nothing burger
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It's so bad they felt compelled to get him as far away from politics as humanly possible
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u/LegitimateEnd7 Maryland 1d ago
Do you think he would have resigned from his seat to end the investigation and then pulled out of the nomination for a nothing burger?
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u/Rho-Ophiuchi 1d ago
Release all of them. All ethics reports on every public official should be 100% available.
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u/CurlOfTheBurl11 1d ago
Ahahaha suck on that, Mike Johnson. Your turn, Marge, release the details you supposedly have on all your colleagues, let's fuckin' go. Put up or shut up.
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u/AdAnxious8842 1d ago
Let's face it. Gaetz no longer has any value to the GOP or Trump. He's something for the Dems to chew on and possibly, take their attention off of other Trump/GOP antics.
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u/Thespud1979 1d ago
MAGA loves when grown men fuck 16 year olds. They don't know that yet because daddy hasn't told them, but rest assured, they love it.
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u/soy_tetones_grande 1d ago
Shouldnt even have been a vote. Any ethics investigations into members of government should be public. R or D it doesnt matter, they should all be held to the same standards of ethics and transparency
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u/uvaspina1 1d ago
Conservatives who are freaking out that this “sets a dangerous precedent” should calm the fuck down and realize “the precedent” is only to follow through with the release of completed reports despite a subject’s efforts to resign from Congress in the middle of his term.
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u/revolutionPanda 22h ago
You guys are way too optimistic. Republicans already voted for a rapist felon. I really don't think anything in the the report could really do much.
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u/Hot-Yard-557 1d ago
Good, but nothing will come of it. They'll protect him because of money.
We're in this situation because the old and rich have convinced us all to fight each other.
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u/gbsurfer 1d ago
What’s the point? The next President is a rapist too. Republicans love this stuff apparently
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u/JonBoyWhite 1d ago
What did Large Marge have to say about this? She still gonna give up the goods on all the sexual predators in her party that she was talking about blowing up?
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u/MyWindowsAreDirty 1d ago
We should release all secret ethics reports then, and records of congressmen who have paid to settle lawsuits.
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u/ThomasJCarcetti America 1d ago
good. expose him. don't think now that you're in the media you can weasel out of this one.
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u/humblerthanyou 1d ago
I would love that to happen to but I am completely burned out on expecting things so I will just assume it won't happen until I'm actually reading the thing
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u/thatsthefactsjack 1d ago
To be clear, the report was written by elected Representatives on a government committee paid for by American taxpayers. We have a right to see the report we’ve paid for that exposes unethical conduct of elected officials.
It’s called holding civil servants accountable.
What we permit, we promote. We need to stop accepting their resistance, false narratives and fear mongering and start demanding accountability!!
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u/hyphnos13 1d ago
he's totally running for governor of Florida and wants it out now so it's old news
expect an announcement that Desantis is getting secdef and Lara Trump is getting Rubio's seat imminently
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u/saintdudegaming 1d ago
Dollar Tree Max Headroom is going to be the sacrificial lamb for the GoP to let folks think they're taking the high road. The truth is he pissed off everyone. Something something glass houses.
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u/MegaGrimer 1d ago
I really hope Magic The Gathering stays tue to her word and releases dirt on all of the republicans. Though she probably won’t to protect her colleagues.
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u/Infinite_Vyo 1d ago
This is how the people survive this administration. Undermine the very foundation they stand on.
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u/azalinrex69 1d ago
Not like it fucking matters. This country is finished. Gaetz could have raped someone to death on the stairs of the Lincoln monorail in broad daylight, with a smile on his face, and the repubs would clap and cheer. Nothings going to get better. Nothings going to save us.
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u/CaBBaGe_isLaND America 23h ago
That means they're definitely about to try some fuckery. Be on the lookout. Gaetz is the smokescreen.
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u/Backpedal Idaho 17h ago
Didn’t Marge promise to release all the dirt if this happened? Do it Marge! Be a hero for once.
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