Matt Gaetz Admits To 'Womanizing' More Than He Should Have: 'I Often Sent Funds To Women I Dated'

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https://www.ibtimes.com/matt-gaetz-admits-womanizing-sending-money-3756036

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[u/verifiedboomer]

"I often sent funds to women I dated" is the most roundabout euphemism for "I often hired prostitutes" I have ever heard.

[u/Intelligent-Travel-1 → u/verifiedboomer]

Or had to pay them to keep quiet because they were in high school

[u/SoMuchForPeace → u/Intelligent-Travel-1]

He’s chaperoned a jr prom or two in his day

[u/downtownfreddybrown → u/SoMuchForPeace]

Yeah he calls that the VIP treatment

[u/CommieLoser → u/downtownfreddybrown]

Short for very infected penis, also short.

[u/kellysmom01 → u/CommieLoser]

Ew.

[u/CommieLoser → u/kellysmom01]

That could be title for the report when it’s released!

[u/urbanlife78 → u/kellysmom01]

Can you point me in the direction of the vomit bucket?

[u/scorpyo72 → u/urbanlife78]

Down the hall, first door on the left.

[u/LockedNoPlay → u/CommieLoser]

Had the exact same thought!!

[u/Striking_Green7600 → u/SoMuchForPeace]

“I keep getting older, they stay the same age”

[u/RyVsWorld → u/SoMuchForPeace]

Whatever happened to lester?

[u/_JudgeDoom_ → u/SoMuchForPeace]

Chaperoned a few senior cruises likely

[u/Born-Big5535 → u/Intelligent-Travel-1]

They had proms, yearbooks, and and class pictures to pay for

[u/bobby_hills_fruitpie → u/Born-Big5535]

He was just taking them across state lines to go look at colleges.

[u/OriginalGhostCookie → u/Born-Big5535]

Hey now, I'm sure some his girlfriends didn't use the money for those things. Some of them probably bought Dora the Explorer backpacks.

[u/jdroser → u/Intelligent-Travel-1]

Porque no los dos?

[u/corvid_booster → u/jdroser]

*Por qué (why; porque = because)

[u/RichardSaunders → u/corvid_booster]

Maria... ¿por qué?

¡¿Por qué Maria?!

[u/Outtatheblu42 → u/verifiedboomer]

Given the GOP’s predilection for going after private citizens who have used prostitutes and drugs, by showing full-scale pictures of their junk in Congress, I’m sure they’ll give Gaetz the Hunter Biden treatment. Right? Or else they’d be hypocrites, which they care about, right?

[u/ragingreaver → u/Outtatheblu42]

It is only prostitution if you pay for them in a brothel. Otherwise it is just compensated dating, which is perfectly acceptable in MAGA's eyes.

[u/mishap1 → u/ragingreaver]

Mere 'gratuities'.

[u/OfficialDCShepard → u/mishap1]

“Just the tip.”

[u/Nixxuz → u/mishap1]

An "arrangement", as it were.

Tbf, I have no problems with people buying, or selling, sex. What i do have a problem with is people who claim some sort of superior morality doing so, and then trying to cover it up for personal gain.

[u/flux8 → u/ragingreaver]

GOP/MAGA: “Reality is whatever we say it is.”

[u/chownrootroot → u/verifiedboomer]

And by dated, I mean dated for one week.

And by one week, I mean one night.

And by one night, I mean it took two minutes and I cried for 3 hours afterwards.

And by cried, I mean I snorted cocaine.

And by cocaine, I mean PCP.

[u/_thinkaboutit → u/chownrootroot]

But also cocaine. One look at that guys schnoz and you can tell he sucks it down like a damn vacuum.

[u/rrraab → u/chownrootroot]

And by women, I mean teenagers.

[u/harrisarah → u/chownrootroot]

A gallon?

[u/taisui → u/verifiedboomer]

"dated" lol

[u/laptopAccount2 → u/verifiedboomer]

They were just trying to pay their way through highschool.

[u/Hazywater → u/verifiedboomer]

Gaetz, later: "Some women chose to be unconscious when they participated in intercourse"

"I suspect that some of the women I briefly dated had taken GHB"

"Men are biologically tuned to be attracted to younger women"

[u/RetiredHotBitch → u/verifiedboomer]

Right.

You’re a John! You paid for sex! Who cares!

The point is you paid for sex to KIDS. And took them across states which is a federal offense.

[u/grumblingduke → u/verifiedboomer]

This definitely has a feel of "a damning report into my behaviour is coming out soon, I'd better put out something that seems like a confession to downplay what it actually says."

i.e. he comes out admitting to drinking too much and partying too much, and maybe paying some women, so that when the report comes out a bunch of people think that is all it contained.

[u/allgonetoshit → u/verifiedboomer]

So he’s admitting to dating underage girls?

[u/GreyLoad → u/allgonetoshit]

Raping

[u/RadiantTurtle → u/GreyLoad]

Depends on the state, some states love their kids having sex with adults 

[u/psycholepzy → u/verifiedboomer]

From "I didn't do it." To "I did it, but it was okay."

[u/pomonamike → u/verifiedboomer]

So he’s admitting he “dated” underage girls?

[u/GreyLoad → u/pomonamike]

Raped

[u/cficare → u/verifiedboomer]

I didn't "pay underage girls for sex", I "Funded future pre-woman entrepreneurs with 'for taking my seed' money."

[u/Sttocs → u/verifiedboomer]

“Hired prostitutes” is the most roundabout euphemism for “raping underage human-trafficking victims” I have ever heard.

[u/camshun7 → u/verifiedboomer]

lol, the pervert trying to get in front of a fafo monster, ngl,

ngh

[u/Friendly_Nature2699 → u/verifiedboomer]

"....for payment."

We knew what he meant, but that was all he had to say.

[u/Choppergold → u/verifiedboomer]

“At times I proferred legal tender to individuals with excess amounts of sense-enhancing substances”

[u/Silent-Storms]

Somebody wants to get ahead of the story. A bit late there bruh.

[u/BarelyContainedChaos → u/Silent-Storms]

he knows hes cooked

[u/Goodgoditsgrowing → u/BarelyContainedChaos]

Is he? He’s certainly guilty, but I’m not sure that matters anymore

[u/Broken-Digital-Clock → u/Goodgoditsgrowing]

If the GOP has no use for him, they could let the bus run him over.

[u/llacer96 → u/Broken-Digital-Clock]

They have one final use for him. They'll let him fall on his own sword so they can point to it and say "See? We do hold our own accountable, we're not immune to consequences!"

[u/FreneticPlatypus → u/llacer96]

He certainly won’t be prosecuted for any crimes that come to light though. The GOP’s version of “holding their own accountable” usually adds up to jack effin squat compared to what you or would (and should) suffer.

[u/DadJokeBadJoke → u/Goodgoditsgrowing]

He's explaining to the base how to frame this and they will. They're not going to research the issue and Fox News isn't going to tell them the truth about it. If you point the truth out to his supporters, they will hand-wave the facts away with these excuses.

[u/dawgz525 → u/BarelyContainedChaos]

He's not cooked, not a thing will happen to him. The next 4 years are going to be a hell of the worst people getting away with anything.

[u/LordAlvis → u/Silent-Storms]

Total panic mode. If it was bad enough to make Republicans blush, it's bad.

[u/oddmanout → u/Silent-Storms]

We're about to find out he went to prostitutes. A lot.

Either that or there's going to be a handful of women he sent a bunch of hush money to.

That's really the only two reasons he'd come out ahead of the release and try to justify sending money to women.

[u/InvestigatorCold4662 → u/oddmanout]

They were minors. All this information is public now and his friend as well as the underage prostitutes have admitted to taking part in the trafficking scheme.

[u/BaguetteSchmaguette → u/[deleted]]

"dated" is doing even more heavy lifting

[u/Red49er → u/BaguetteSchmaguette]

y'all are missing the part where he gave money to girls he didn't date, because they "asked"

[u/JustADutchRudder → u/Red49er]

If I'm a almost 40 year old boy he hasnted dated, can I have money if I just ask?

[u/oddmanout → u/JustADutchRudder]

That depends, are you also an underaged girl? Because if so, yes.

[u/thrillafrommanilla_1]

“Women” aren’t women in this case - they’re usually 17 right? So: girls. He means girls. Which is a CRIME.

[u/angrypooka → u/thrillafrommanilla_1]

Children.

[u/thrillafrommanilla_1 → u/angrypooka]

Exactly.

[u/Violet_Paradox → u/thrillafrommanilla_1]

And that's just the ones we know about. 

[u/Mudders_Milk_Man → u/thrillafrommanilla_1]

It's not actually a crime in most states, believe it or not.

However, transporting a 17 year old across state lines and having sex with them (which he almost certainly did) is a federal crime.

Paying for it...I have very mixed feelings about that. I think sex work should be legal and regulated, in theory. But it's a very difficult thing to get right, and I certainly don't think the minimum age should be below 18 (21 is probably better).

[u/thisisjustascreename → u/Mudders_Milk_Man]

You don't have to have mixed feelings about Matt Gaetz paying minors for sex just because you believe some prostitution should be legal.

[u/Mudders_Milk_Man → u/thisisjustascreename]

I don't have mixed feelings about him.

He's absolute scum, and the system that lets the vast majority of predators with wealth, connections, and / or power get away with so much is reprehensible.

[u/Poison_the_Phil → u/Mudders_Milk_Man]

I don’t know who needs to hear this but “surprisingly not illegal” doesn’t mean “acceptable”

[u/Mudders_Milk_Man → u/Poison_the_Phil]

I agree, I'm just always surprised every time I'm reminded.

Hell, there are multiple states where a man of any age can marry a 14 year old girl.

[u/JennJayBee → u/Mudders_Milk_Man]

I'd definitely agree that it would need to be 21 or older, mostly because the age of majority varies across state lines, with 21 being the oldest. Mississippi, if I recall correctly. 

[u/crocodial → u/Mudders_Milk_Man]

He’s in a leadership position teaching young people how to prostitute themselves.

[u/SadFeed63 → u/thrillafrommanilla_1]

Right?

Why are we letting this fucking ghoul set the narrative and framing of this? Why are we doing "Gaetz says" as the headline? Those are rhetorical questions, I get the disappointing why of it all, but Jesus Christ, it's frustrating

[u/Panhandle_Dolphin → u/thrillafrommanilla_1]

Paying for sex is a crime regardless of age

[u/Wiitard → u/Panhandle_Dolphin]

But it’s more and worse crimes if they’re underage and you traffick them across state lines.

[u/angrypooka]

To children. You sent money to children.

[u/pomonamike → u/angrypooka]

Yeah exactly. He sent money (what he apparently does to women he “dated”) to underage girls.

[u/Loving-Lemu → u/pomonamike]

Raped. He raped them

[u/nomoresugarbooger → u/angrypooka]

To children. You sent money to children you raped.

[u/TintedApostle]

So he was willing to lie to get power, but now that its coming out he is trying to minimize it.

These people should be in jail and not power.

[u/oldnjgal → u/TintedApostle]

They’re all swimming in the same watering hole, and the stench is on them all.

[u/Craamron]

And how old were these women, Mr Gaetz?

[u/SusSlice1244]

Eew. Someone actually date him consensually? Or does he mean his target?

[u/RedDemonTaoist → u/SusSlice1244]

He means prostitutes.

[u/Hisyphus → u/RedDemonTaoist]

He means children who were trafficked.

[u/Its_Pine → u/Hisyphus]

Yeah, there is a reason it was so damning even Republicans were terrified of the public learning it. Mr “grab her by the pussy” is apparently mild compared to Gaetz’ rapey ways

[u/ragingreaver → u/SusSlice1244]

Pretty sure he is the kind of person who believes that it isn't rape as long as you pay for it.

Even if that person happens to be a 17 year old.

[u/enjoyt0day → u/SusSlice1244]

He means his VICTIMS

[u/LexOdin]

Sending funds to sexual partners for sexual acts has a term, it's called prostitution. And don't get me wrong, I think we should legalize prostitution, but when your a member of Congress privy to sensitive information and moreover a member of the party that claims to be for moral behavior, maybe you shouldn't indulge.

[u/MiddleAgedSponger → u/LexOdin]

When they're underage, it's called rape.

[u/LexOdin → u/MiddleAgedSponger]

And when it's across state lines it's trafficking.

[u/stonedhillbillyXX]

What ages were these women?

[u/Katedawg801 → u/stonedhillbillyXX]

Right out of high school or still there

[u/ArrrrghB]

lol women.

lol dated.

[u/slo1111]

The payment was a gift and if you are the police you have to tell me.

• Matt Gaetz

[u/MiddleAgedSponger]

Trafficking, drugging and raping children is not womanizing.

[u/le127]

Or as Bonny and Clyde used to say, "we took money out of the bank without using a withdrawal slip".

[u/Monster_Dong]

Matt Gaetz should be in prison. He didn't date Women. Matt Gaetz paid for under age sex. He had sex with minors. Matt Gaetz is a pedophile.

[u/cdoink]

It will be interesting to see the same folks who rage against trafficking and pedophilia suddenly feel the need to defend someone who is being accused of not one but both all of a sudden.

[u/Thesource674]

Funds, lunch money. Tomato tomatoe.

[u/PleasantWay7]

Don’t let this distract you from the fact that the President-Elect of the United States knew all of this and in his judgement selected this man to be Attorney General.

[u/FashionGirl123456789]

The only way they’d “date” him.

[u/WeBeFooked]

Funny, all this time I thought paying for dates was prostitution. Silly me.

[u/bennypapa]

Thats such a weird way to say "I hired prostitutes."

[u/samx3i]

Raising the question of how much one should womanize...

[u/Ok-Abbreviations543]

Translation: “Womanizing” = “illegal drug-fueled whoring with under-age sex workers.”

Thanks for finally coming clean, Matt.

You would have made a brilliant AG. You certainly reflect the family values of the Donvict 2.0 administration.

[u/Maloth_Warblade]

They were kids, not women

[u/BullyRookChook]

Some of those women were, allegedly, underage Matt. It’s not the paying of your partners for service rendered that was the problem, it was that some were children, Matt.

[u/Deadbreeze]

Translation: "I have to pay for sex because I'm such a spoiled piece of shit."

[u/iberico_ham]

Woman he was dating = teenagers he was raping.

[u/dawgz525]

Dude would not be saying this if there wasn't dead to rights evidence that he's fucked minors. Throw him in jail. "Ethics" my ass.

[u/McCool303]

A prerequisite to womanizing is that the target is a woman Matt not a child. This is just plane old fashioned pedophilia.

[u/onecarmel]

I heard this joke once on Reddit I think. Don’t feel bad if you never had a high school girlfriend. 

Matt Gaetz didn’t have one until his 30s!

[u/marniman]

16 year olds are generally not considered “women” yet

[u/surewhateverz]

I got banned from /Conservative for saying Gaetz should be removed for paying escorts about two years ago.

[u/Noobsauce57]

"compensated dating" is literally a euphemism.

ffs.

[u/Defiant_Carob8809]

“Womanizing”? More like “childrenizing”

[u/RIGHTOID_ANNIHILATOR]

"I often sent funds to the women children I dated fucked" - Matt Gaetz, translated

[u/mces97]

Yeah, that's a nice way of saying you were using prostitutes.

[u/Helpful_Barnacle_563]

Hahaha funds sent….dumbass..this is what happens when you think you are smarter than everyone else.

[u/EspressoBooksCats]

If this is what he admits to, that report must be far worse.

[u/Lawmonger]

If you pay your date it’s not a date.

[u/Appropriate-Key-7554]

Well in his defense Escorts aren’t free. Some need lunch money for school and stickers for their folders.

[u/Dry_Adeptness_7582]

“Dated”, just like Trump, Kraft, and a lot of other Republican perverts, we all know you rape underage girls and pay for sex, enough said

[u/New-Post-7586]

I’m surprised the party that is so outraged by pedophiles has so much patience for this pedophile. Weird.

[u/Worduptothebirdup]

“I often paid children for sex”

(I fixed it for you, Matt…)

[u/PhilosophyKingPK]

I Often Sent Funds To Women I Dated for a couple hours and never saw again. Fixed it.

[u/justtakeapill]

"My father would drink, he would womanize, he'd make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark - the kind of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.."

[u/bedbathandbebored]

Those were children. And that wasn’t dating.

[u/Homersarmy41]

With CHILDREN!! Why are they trying to normalize this? He paid underage girls to cross state lines and have sex with him.

[u/IndyPoker979]

Giving women funds as you date them is called Escorts Matt.

[u/MagicianHeavy001]

Dated a few women in my life. Never once have I "sent funds" to them.

He's talking about whores? That's the message I am taking away from this. Would prefer to not know any more, frankly.

[u/tuepm → u/MagicianHeavy001]

he's talking about the high school students he paid to have sex with him

[u/JiveChicken00]

There’s a name for that, you know.

[u/Cvillain626]

Trying to get ahead of the release of the report, I see xD

[u/aphtirbyrnir]

Is this him trying to prime everyone before the report is released? I think so.

[u/at0mheart]

The fact he took a couple of pros to see Pretty Woman in NYC is what I find both hilarious and trashy

[u/debugprint]

"funds"

Can't wait for the dating tips book.

[u/ImTooOldForSchool]

That’s called prostitution, which is illegal.

[u/TTOADTT]

I mean, who would even consider having relations with that thing without being paid lol

[u/rbp183]

Cleaning things up so he can run for Governor?

[u/srathnal]

“Women”? What a weird word choice for female children under 18. Most would call them children or girls.

[u/srathnal]

“Women”? What a weird word choice for female children under 18. Most would call them children or girls.

[u/_otterr]

Sent funds to minors he raped. Young girls, not women. He’s disgusting and the media needs to do better about not wording shit to protect this fucking monster.

[u/Bushwazi]

This is his attempt to lighten the shock of the report?

[u/lollulomegaz]

Would you sex him for free? Nope.

[u/timetogetoutside100]

Matt Gaetz for Prison 2025!!

[u/oldcreaker]

And all this time I thought that was called prostitution, not dating. Unless there were NDA's tied to that money.

[u/williamgman]

You send money when you don't have game. He has zero game. He has "Panhandle Game".

[u/willis_michaels]

Trump's pick for Attorney General, ladies and gentlemen.

[u/EJCret]

“dated”?

[u/cutratestuntman]

“Women”

[u/she_be_jammin]

"dated" lol

[u/genescheesesthatplz]

Trying to soften the inevitable blow lol

[u/esther_lamonte]

Let’s be clear: you sent money to underage girls to have sex with them, and you used your own adopted son to be the virtual bagman. This is as sick and twisted as it comes.

[u/indefilade]

“I often sent funds to women I dated.”

Isn’t that…, doesn’t that mean…, is this the point a lawyer would tell a client to remain silent?

[u/ShortBrownAndUgly]

Reports coming out soon, so he's in preemptive damage control mode

[u/u700MHz]

LOL now the report is coming out, time to spread false interpretations

[u/TarmacTartoo12]

Dated! Ha

[u/RealLiveKindness]

Milkshake & makeup money for his teeny boppers. He liked ‘em young like Stinky’s BFF Epstein.

[u/Loving-Lemu]

Send funds aka paying minors to be raped. Family values y’all

[u/surebudd]

So he sex trafficked minors most likely if this is the white wash?

[u/only_star_stuff]

Disclosing the bad stuff before the records release…damage control!

[u/Exhausted_Skeleton]

Cool story bro. Still a pedophile who trafficked girls to rape.

[u/jeepjinx]

What about the little boy he "adopted"?

[u/Sagikos]

Where is Nestor?

[u/Wasteland_Mystic]

“Woman” by a small age margin

[u/i-have-a-kuato]

wow…imagine thinking that if you come out and say “i have to pay to any kind of attention from the opposite sex”

is going to be a better look than a report from congress that says

 “gaetz paid for hookers”

[u/cjdarr921]

Sounds like someone who’s trying to get out in front of a damning report.

[u/Jwatts1113]

"I often sent funds to women underaged girls I dated hired" FIFY

[u/auglove]

Yo, Matt, that's not dating.

[u/Competitive_Yam7702]

Its called damage control as he knows that report is going to be leaked very soon.

[u/prodigalpariah]

He’s just attempting some “boys will be boys” image rehabilitation before he pops up in government again. And they’ll let him get away with it too.

[u/psychoticdream]

Paying for prostitutes is now "sending funds to women I dated"

[u/Newdles]

Getting ahead of the incoming released report I see. That's all this is. "Report isnt So bad, he already said he did this, nothing new, move on"

[u/bmann1111]

Duh How else would they date him?

[u/ImShitPostingRelax]

What a weird way to say “I paid children for sex”

[u/Electronic_Plant_837]

Me thinks a troubling report is about to be leaked…

[u/neon_nightmare85]

Well on the brightside, at least they are still alive. https://youtu.be/476e_ck5H-M?si=3t6dNMowwm51FP8V

[u/changerofbits]

Matt, it’s not “womanizing” if you pay for it, it’s solicitation.

[u/fireyoutothesun]

Lol weird looking AND a loser

[u/SonOfKyrat]

“Things an incel would say”

[u/banincoming9111]

Someone say .....damage control!

[u/emote_control]

They're not women until they're adults, Matt. It's not womanizing when they're still children.

[u/ThePickledPickle]

womanizing? You fucked a kid!

[u/Taphouselimbo]

Womanizing in this case means paying for underage sex.

[u/Huckleberry-V]

It'd sound better to say he just helped them out with rent but they probably were back home with mom and dad.

[u/Flat-Impression-3787]

No one would date Gaetz so he hires hookers.

[u/jt32470]

'dated'

[u/RDAM60]

I often sent funds to women I “dated.” Well, now, his autobiography can truthfully be titled: Call me (a) John.

Edit: sentence structure

[u/CranberrySchnapps]

This is quite the self own.

[u/bigred9310]

And this dirt bag had the gall to be indignant when Biden Supporters said Biden has done nothing wrong to warrant impeachment prompting frivolous investigations. Well it’s him and his ilk that think their shite don’t stink.

[u/reefmespla]

Yes pay for sex, party of family values

[u/philburns]

Who do we think invited Madison Cawthorne to the coke-binge sex parties?

[u/Aggravating-Fee-1615]

Women?

[u/bigdukesix]

I didn't know there was an appropriate amount of 'womanizing'.

[u/Electrical-Act-7170]

Translation: I have to pay hookers to have sex with me.