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Matt Gaetz
#91
It’s now been over three weeks since a torrent of sensational headlines about U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) blared from corporate media newsrooms. It sounded about as bad as it could get for the representative from Florida’s 1st Congressional District; breathless claims that he was “under investigation for underage sex trafficking” touched off a media frenzy.

No stranger to controversy, Gaetz’s initial instinct was to confront the allegations live on Fox News with Tucker Carlson. While many saw it as a bizarre interview, it may at least have been the right move in terms of staring down a bloodthirsty establishment.

As several weeks have passed, though, the controversy seems to have generated more light than heat. Indeed, this might be the longest running “sex scandal” in the nation’s history without an accuser. But the media has been busy. Since the original story broke, there’s been a drip of follow-on stories at outlets like the Daily Beast, Politico, the Washington Post, and CNN—all using a shady collection of off-the-record and dubious government sources.

Unsurprisingly, given that sourcing, none of the stories have contained anything close to serious detail or evidence. Reporters keep dropping tidbits of evidence likely to be emanating from within the Justice Department, yet none of which confirms any of the headline-grabbing allegations.

Few of these articles even attempt to deal with the wild allegations first made about the congressman. Writing in Politico on Tuesday, Betsy Woodruff Swan stated: “[Gaetz] has not been charged with a crime, and no women have publicly accused him of sexual misconduct in the three weeks since the New York Times first reported on the investigation. He has denied any wrongdoing.”

Note how—after making a sensational media splash for maximum public relations damage—the accusations against Gaetz have shifted, from shocking and unsupported claims of underage sex trafficking and pedophilia to the less scurrilous (and still unsupported) accusation that Gaetz had sex at parties. Crucially, there has not been any evidence of payments, prostitution, or underage girls.

Journalists Collude With the Government
As Scott Adams recently said, while some may first cringe at hearing too much about the sex life of a politician, deep down, they’re more likely to be indifferent. CNN even had to note in a recent report:

One of the women who spoke to CNN said she did so in part because the picture of Gaetz as potentially connected to sex trafficking that has emerged in recent days does not align with what she saw. Both women said that they never saw anyone at the parties who appeared to be underage.

It’s hard to believe that much of this reporting isn’t being weaponized against Gaetz—the hard-charging America First Member of Congress and top Donald Trump defender—for purely partisan reasons. This seemed to be the case as illustrated by Nate Nelson, a disabled veteran who worked in Gaetz’s congressional office. Early on in the saga, Nelson held a pressconference outside his home in Florida. It didn’t get much media attention, probably because the subject of the presser was, in large part, the media.

He detailed how he was visited by the FBI in the week before the first story appeared in the New York Times. “They told me that members of the media reached out to them, asserting that I had previous knowledge of Congressman Gaetz’s illegal activities,” Nelson said.

What is the FBI doing running down a tip from a reporter? Our most competent domestic law enforcement agency is interviewing possible witnesses based on the hearsay of a reporter.

“This baseless claim against me leaves me further convinced that the allegations against Congressman Gaetz are likewise fabricated,” Nelson concluded. “They’re merely an attempt to discredit a very vocal conservative.” This seems to fit with what CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester inadvertently told Project Veritas’ hidden camera:

If the agenda, say, is to like get, like Matt Gaetz right now, he’s like this Republican. He’s a problem for the Democratic Party because he’s so conservative and he can cause a lot of hiccups in passing of laws and what not. So, it would be great for the Democratic Party to get him out. So, we’re going to keep running these stories to keep hurting him and make it so that it can’t be buried and just like settled outside court just and like, you know, if we keep pushing that, it’s helping us.

Russiagate Set a Dangerous Precedent
For the media, the regular drip of government leaks serves to keep the controversy alive in some form while they silently walk back their most outrageous and sensational claims. Reporters do this so often—and often so elegantly—you’d think they were born to do it. If this sounds like a familiar script, that’s because it is the state of political warfare in America today.

In 2016, the media hyped a massive conspiracy that implicated President Trump, his team, and his family in a stunning takeover of America by the Russian government. If true, it would be among the most serious examples of treason in modern history. Of course, it was no such thing; after years and millions spent on investigations, the conspiracy turned out to be nothing but partisan fakery.

That frenzy served to divide the nation, destroy bipartisanship, and weaponize parts of the American government against its own citizens. Within weeks or months of wall-to-wall, partisan media hysteria about Donald Trump and Russia, half the country was persuaded, without evidence, that the president of the United States was effectively a traitor, and that a foreign enemy was in control of the American government at the highest levels. There hasperhaps never been anything even remotely as corrosive to social cohesion and national unity, at least in this country’s modern history.

From start to finish, Russiagate was an information operation. It was weaponized in the press, but it emerged from the bowels of the national security branch of the administrative state—what some have called the deep state. We must remember how complicit the apparatus of government was throughout that situation. Media introduces misleading, incomplete or outright false information from elements of national security and law enforcement bureaucracies.

Americans don’t expect the people who are supposed to be defending them from criminals or foreign enemies to abuse their powers to settle personal scores or to commit themselves to a clandestine media jihad against domestic political opponents. But we’ve seen it happen repeatedly in the last several years. And the leaks from the Justice Department or within law enforcement indicate that the deep state might again be up to its Russiagate tricks, this time against Matt Gaetz.

Knowing what we know about the deep-state leaks to the press so far about Gaetz, we should ask some questions:

First, who is furnishing the Daily Beast and other media outlets with tidbits of information to drag this “scandal” on, without any real evidence of wrongdoing?

Second, who is leaking information about an ongoing criminal investigation, and why?

It took years of diligent and thankless effort by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), Kash Patel and others within government to get to the bottom of the deep state’s malfeasance during Russiagate. And this was during the Trump years, when the president (theoretically) controlled the executive branch, of which the Justice Department is a part. Unfortunately, under the Biden-Harris Administration, the deep state doesn’t meet even the slightest resistance; getting answers about who is taking shots at Matt Gaetz will be difficult. Still, it’s worth pulling the threads here. Americans should know how this story emerged, who is really behind it, and in whose interest it remains for America First firebrands like Gaetz to disappear.
#92
You do know they are still arresting people from Trump's Treason March and that was over 4 months ago. It took years for authorities to nail down Epstein.

Be patient young grasshopper.
#93
(04-26-2021, 11:16 AM)jetpilot Wrote: It’s now been over three weeks since a torrent of sensational headlines about U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) blared from corporate media newsrooms. It sounded about as bad as it could get for the representative from Florida’s 1st Congressional District; breathless claims that he was “under investigation for underage sex trafficking” touched off a media frenzy.

No stranger to controversy, Gaetz’s initial instinct was to confront the allegations live on Fox News with Tucker Carlson. While many saw it as a bizarre interview, it may at least have been the right move in terms of staring down a bloodthirsty establishment.

As several weeks have passed, though, the controversy seems to have generated more light than heat. Indeed, this might be the longest running “sex scandal” in the nation’s history without an accuser. But the media has been busy. Since the original story broke, there’s been a drip of follow-on stories at outlets like the Daily Beast, Politico, the Washington Post, and CNN—all using a shady collection of off-the-record and dubious government sources.

Unsurprisingly, given that sourcing, none of the stories have contained anything close to serious detail or evidence. Reporters keep dropping tidbits of evidence likely to be emanating from within the Justice Department, yet none of which confirms any of the headline-grabbing allegations.

Few of these articles even attempt to deal with the wild allegations first made about the congressman. Writing in Politico on Tuesday, Betsy Woodruff Swan stated: “[Gaetz] has not been charged with a crime, and no women have publicly accused him of sexual misconduct in the three weeks since the New York Times first reported on the investigation. He has denied any wrongdoing.”

Note how—after making a sensational media splash for maximum public relations damage—the accusations against Gaetz have shifted, from shocking and unsupported claims of underage sex trafficking and pedophilia to the less scurrilous (and still unsupported) accusation that Gaetz had sex at parties. Crucially, there has not been any evidence of payments, prostitution, or underage girls.

Journalists Collude With the Government
As Scott Adams recently said, while some may first cringe at hearing too much about the sex life of a politician, deep down, they’re more likely to be indifferent. CNN even had to note in a recent report:

One of the women who spoke to CNN said she did so in part because the picture of Gaetz as potentially connected to sex trafficking that has emerged in recent days does not align with what she saw. Both women said that they never saw anyone at the parties who appeared to be underage.

It’s hard to believe that much of this reporting isn’t being weaponized against Gaetz—the hard-charging America First Member of Congress and top Donald Trump defender—for purely partisan reasons. This seemed to be the case as illustrated by Nate Nelson, a disabled veteran who worked in Gaetz’s congressional office. Early on in the saga, Nelson held a pressconference outside his home in Florida. It didn’t get much media attention, probably because the subject of the presser was, in large part, the media.

He detailed how he was visited by the FBI in the week before the first story appeared in the New York Times. “They told me that members of the media reached out to them, asserting that I had previous knowledge of Congressman Gaetz’s illegal activities,” Nelson said.

What is the FBI doing running down a tip from a reporter? Our most competent domestic law enforcement agency is interviewing possible witnesses based on the hearsay of a reporter.

“This baseless claim against me leaves me further convinced that the allegations against Congressman Gaetz are likewise fabricated,” Nelson concluded. “They’re merely an attempt to discredit a very vocal conservative.” This seems to fit with what CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester inadvertently told Project Veritas’ hidden camera:

If the agenda, say, is to like get, like Matt Gaetz right now, he’s like this Republican. He’s a problem for the Democratic Party because he’s so conservative and he can cause a lot of hiccups in passing of laws and what not. So, it would be great for the Democratic Party to get him out. So, we’re going to keep running these stories to keep hurting him and make it so that it can’t be buried and just like settled outside court just and like, you know, if we keep pushing that, it’s helping us.

Russiagate Set a Dangerous Precedent
For the media, the regular drip of government leaks serves to keep the controversy alive in some form while they silently walk back their most outrageous and sensational claims. Reporters do this so often—and often so elegantly—you’d think they were born to do it. If this sounds like a familiar script, that’s because it is the state of political warfare in America today.

In 2016, the media hyped a massive conspiracy that implicated President Trump, his team, and his family in a stunning takeover of America by the Russian government. If true, it would be among the most serious examples of treason in modern history. Of course, it was no such thing; after years and millions spent on investigations, the conspiracy turned out to be nothing but partisan fakery.

That frenzy served to divide the nation, destroy bipartisanship, and weaponize parts of the American government against its own citizens. Within weeks or months of wall-to-wall, partisan media hysteria about Donald Trump and Russia, half the country was persuaded, without evidence, that the president of the United States was effectively a traitor, and that a foreign enemy was in control of the American government at the highest levels. There hasperhaps never been anything even remotely as corrosive to social cohesion and national unity, at least in this country’s modern history.

From start to finish, Russiagate was an information operation. It was weaponized in the press, but it emerged from the bowels of the national security branch of the administrative state—what some have called the deep state. We must remember how complicit the apparatus of government was throughout that situation. Media introduces misleading, incomplete or outright false information from elements of national security and law enforcement bureaucracies.

Americans don’t expect the people who are supposed to be defending them from criminals or foreign enemies to abuse their powers to settle personal scores or to commit themselves to a clandestine media jihad against domestic political opponents. But we’ve seen it happen repeatedly in the last several years. And the leaks from the Justice Department or within law enforcement indicate that the deep state might again be up to its Russiagate tricks, this time against Matt Gaetz.

Knowing what we know about the deep-state leaks to the press so far about Gaetz, we should ask some questions:

First, who is furnishing the Daily Beast and other media outlets with tidbits of information to drag this “scandal” on, without any real evidence of wrongdoing?

Second, who is leaking information about an ongoing criminal investigation, and why?

It took years of diligent and thankless effort by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), Kash Patel and others within government to get to the bottom of the deep state’s malfeasance during Russiagate. And this was during the Trump years, when the president (theoretically) controlled the executive branch, of which the Justice Department is a part. Unfortunately, under the Biden-Harris Administration, the deep state doesn’t meet even the slightest resistance; getting answers about who is taking shots at Matt Gaetz will be difficult. Still, it’s worth pulling the threads here. Americans should know how this story emerged, who is really behind it, and in whose interest it remains for America First firebrands like Gaetz to disappear.
You need to try and keep up Russiagate turned out to be real. Dera Leader's campaign manager gave polling data to a Russian loan shark who in turned gave ot to the Russian CIA to use it against Hillary to help the Dear Leader win 
So in laymen term you support a Russian Hack don't get me started about Jan. 6th or Ukraine

Gaetz he's all yours good luck with that one
#94
^^^Fake fake fake!
#95
(04-26-2021, 02:51 PM)jetpilot Wrote: ^^^Fake fake fake!
Pretty weak
#96
(04-26-2021, 02:56 PM)vector#1 Wrote:
(04-26-2021, 02:51 PM)jetpilot Wrote: ^^^Fake fake fake!
Pretty weak
100% true ain't ever weak. Fake news, the end.
#97
(04-26-2021, 02:51 PM)jetpilot Wrote: ^^^Fake fake fake!


Denial just isn’t a river in Egypt.
#98
No accusers, no evidence, no charges. Still my favorite thread! Plus triggers the libs!
#99
https://www.businessinsider.com/matt-gae...ort-2021-4

Ouchie...

Your hero @jetpilot is headed to jail.
The woman in question has said repeatedly that it didn't happen but keep repeating "leaks" to far-left websites...Still no charges or evidence...
Wow my favorite thread sure is quiet lately. I guess the Daily Beast hasn't written any fake news articles with no evidence lately. Where did everyone go? LOL
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
(05-07-2021, 09:08 AM)Cardfan1 Wrote: Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Always a cheerleader for failure. What a sick, twisted individual you are, Twin Ticks.
(05-07-2021, 12:27 PM)Hoot Gibson Wrote:
(05-07-2021, 09:08 AM)Cardfan1 Wrote: Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Always a cheerleader for failure. What a sick, twisted individual you are, Twin Ticks.

what the hell are you talking about Wrong Way Hooter? Big Grin  

when was the last time one of your political prognostications was close to correct?
(05-07-2021, 09:08 AM)Cardfan1 Wrote: Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.


Gaetz:   "To me the sweetest fruit is still on the vine, not fully ripened."




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I love it that all I have to do is hit a button and it will trigger dumb people into showing their asses. LOL

Another week and STILL no evidence, STILL no charges, STILL my favorite thread!!!
(05-07-2021, 12:27 PM)Hoot Gibson Wrote:
(05-07-2021, 09:08 AM)Cardfan1 Wrote: Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Always a cheerleader for failure. What a sick, twisted individual you are, Twin Ticks.
It's even a lot worse than that. He's always a cheerleader for failure of people who don't share his socialist/communist worldview.
(05-07-2021, 03:25 PM)jetpilot Wrote:
(05-07-2021, 12:27 PM)Hoot Gibson Wrote:
(05-07-2021, 09:08 AM)Cardfan1 Wrote: Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Always a cheerleader for failure. What a sick, twisted individual you are, Twin Ticks.
It's even a lot worse than that. He's always a cheerleader for failure of people who don't share his socialist/communist worldview.


And it's even worse than that, LOL> Don't forget as evidence goes, he's willing to charter an aircraft in order to fly over the mount Everest of evidence against those of his own party, trying to land on the same pin-head the entire Dem Party has already set up camp. And supposedly it's the conservatives on here who have been proven wrong so often. Talk about denial.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
Big Grin

This is gonna be sweet one day.
(05-07-2021, 06:58 PM)Cardfan1 Wrote: Big Grin

This is gonna be sweet one day.
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Women on record accusing Gaetz of misconduct - 0

Women on record accusing Cuomo of misconduct - 9

These are not even comparable.

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Not sure anyone with the last name "Cuomo" should be lecturing people about the treatment of women. https://trib.al/cLLr1R3
^^^

I’m sure this is in response to something Chris Cuomo said, and it’s a good point in that context.

Otherwise it’s just a list of two sexual offenders.
(05-08-2021, 09:20 AM)Cardfan1 Wrote: ^^^

I’m sure this is in response to something Chris Cuomo said, and it’s a good point in that context. 

Otherwise it’s just a list of two sexual offenders.
Things may change, but at this moment there is as much evidence that you are a sex offender as there is against Matt Gaetz, Twin Ticks.
(05-08-2021, 11:15 AM)Hoot Gibson Wrote:
(05-08-2021, 09:20 AM)Cardfan1 Wrote: ^^^

I’m sure this is in response to something Chris Cuomo said, and it’s a good point in that context. 

Otherwise it’s just a list of two sexual offenders.
Things may change, but at this moment there is as much evidence that you are a sex offender as there is against Matt Gaetz, Twin Ticks.
Hooter, considering your buddy Majorie Qanon Greene is the only person that will hang with this creep tells me all I need to know. 

I need to buy some stock in Kleenex.  The day Matty is cuffed and stuffed will bring a lot tears. Big Grin
(05-08-2021, 12:25 PM)Cardfan1 Wrote:
(05-08-2021, 11:15 AM)Hoot Gibson Wrote:
(05-08-2021, 09:20 AM)Cardfan1 Wrote: ^^^

I’m sure this is in response to something Chris Cuomo said, and it’s a good point in that context. 

Otherwise it’s just a list of two sexual offenders.
Things may change, but at this moment there is as much evidence that you are a sex offender as there is against Matt Gaetz, Twin Ticks.
Hooter, considering your buddy Majorie Qanon Greene is the only person that will hang with this creep tells me all I need to know. 

I need to buy some stock in Kleenex.  The day Matty is cuffed and stuffed will bring a lot tears. Big Grin
You are being pretty harsh considering your own creepiness, Twin Ticks. Americans have historically believed in due process and the legal presumption of innocence. Are you sure that you are not an illegal? Has your mommy been hiding something from you?
(05-08-2021, 12:29 PM)Hoot Gibson Wrote:
(05-08-2021, 12:25 PM)Cardfan1 Wrote:
(05-08-2021, 11:15 AM)Hoot Gibson Wrote:
(05-08-2021, 09:20 AM)Cardfan1 Wrote: ^^^

I’m sure this is in response to something Chris Cuomo said, and it’s a good point in that context. 

Otherwise it’s just a list of two sexual offenders.
Things may change, but at this moment there is as much evidence that you are a sex offender as there is against Matt Gaetz, Twin Ticks.
Hooter, considering your buddy Majorie Qanon Greene is the only person that will hang with this creep tells me all I need to know. 

I need to buy some stock in Kleenex.  The day Matty is cuffed and stuffed will bring a lot tears. Big Grin
You are being pretty harsh considering your own creepiness, Twin Ticks. Americans have historically believed in due process and the legal presumption of innocence. Are you sure that you are not an illegal? Has your mommy been hiding something from you?
Sleepy

weak sauce. 

matty can have his day in court. They’ll still cuff him and stuff him.  Maybe not put their hand on his head like Trump instructed cops to do. 

I could be an illegal be more pro American than you Putin Gibson. Big Grin
(05-08-2021, 01:22 PM)Cardfan1 Wrote:
(05-08-2021, 12:29 PM)Hoot Gibson Wrote:
(05-08-2021, 12:25 PM)Cardfan1 Wrote:
(05-08-2021, 11:15 AM)Hoot Gibson Wrote:
(05-08-2021, 09:20 AM)Cardfan1 Wrote: ^^^

I’m sure this is in response to something Chris Cuomo said, and it’s a good point in that context. 

Otherwise it’s just a list of two sexual offenders.
Things may change, but at this moment there is as much evidence that you are a sex offender as there is against Matt Gaetz, Twin Ticks.
Hooter, considering your buddy Majorie Qanon Greene is the only person that will hang with this creep tells me all I need to know. 

I need to buy some stock in Kleenex.  The day Matty is cuffed and stuffed will bring a lot tears. Big Grin
You are being pretty harsh considering your own creepiness, Twin Ticks. Americans have historically believed in due process and the legal presumption of innocence. Are you sure that you are not an illegal? Has your mommy been hiding something from you?
Sleepy

weak sauce. 

matty can have his day in court. They’ll still cuff him and stuff him.  Maybe not put their hand on his head like Trump instructed cops to do. 

I could be an illegal be more pro American than you Putin Gibson. Big Grin
Get a job, Twin Ticks. It would do wonders for your perspective on what it means to be an American, if that is what you are.
(05-08-2021, 01:24 PM)Hoot Gibson Wrote:
(05-08-2021, 01:22 PM)Cardfan1 Wrote:
(05-08-2021, 12:29 PM)Hoot Gibson Wrote:
(05-08-2021, 12:25 PM)Cardfan1 Wrote:
(05-08-2021, 11:15 AM)Hoot Gibson Wrote: Things may change, but at this moment there is as much evidence that you are a sex offender as there is against Matt Gaetz, Twin Ticks.
Hooter, considering your buddy Majorie Qanon Greene is the only person that will hang with this creep tells me all I need to know. 

I need to buy some stock in Kleenex.  The day Matty is cuffed and stuffed will bring a lot tears. Big Grin
You are being pretty harsh considering your own creepiness, Twin Ticks. Americans have historically believed in due process and the legal presumption of innocence. Are you sure that you are not an illegal? Has your mommy been hiding something from you?
Sleepy

weak sauce. 

matty can have his day in court. They’ll still cuff him and stuff him.  Maybe not put their hand on his head like Trump instructed cops to do. 

I could be an illegal be more pro American than you Putin Gibson. Big Grin
Get a job, Twin Ticks. It would do wonders for your perspective on what it means to be an American, if that is what you are.
More weakness. 

when someone doesn’t spray the Trump/Putin mist of middle and low class American hate like you do, they don’t have a job. 

must suck that you and your buddies been searching pizza joints and praying for Storms and the baby Epstein was one of your own the whole time. Big Grin
I wonder how many of our conservative friends on here would let their daughters intern for Mr. Gaetz?   He is currently looking for some young interns.  Here's a link with email address to which your daughter can send her resume and cover letter.

https://www.gwu.gop/single-post/u-s-rep-matt-gaetz-fl
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^Oh, the irony of a Pedo Joe supporter asking this question!  Big Grin
(05-08-2021, 09:33 PM)Hoot Gibson Wrote: ^Oh, the irony of a Pedo Joe supporter asking this question!  Big Grin

Talking about Irony. 

invented story versus a real sexual encounter with a minor.  

Wait...if you believe those things about Biden, Putin Gibson, then you should love him.

Trump and Gaetz are your favs.
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