Not trying to defend this guy, but, in some states, 17 is a legal age limit. Hell, I believe Florida has it at 16. I personally think the law should be the same no matter which state you go in. It's a bit over the top to be labeling him as a rapist, because of the state he was in. Regardless, laws must be followed, but still.
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Just looked it up, it is 18 in Florida.
Rapists are paying close attention.....a phrase that is now a normal thing one would expect to be said on radio and TV news.
Gold star Attorney General qualities. Trump does surround himself with the best.
"Had sex with" is a weird way to say raped
This AG appointment is the biggest troll but the dude stayed loyal to Trump.
Trolling is baiting people to argue with you. This is destroying our nations integrity, one pedophile appointment at a time.
I wouldn't be surprised if Trump comes out and says that you have to be good at breaking the law before you can apply it
That should probably give him a huge assist within trump’s regime. They seem to love that type of thing.
For sure, nothing better than a sycophant lackey except a sycophant lackey they have dirt on, ask Putin.
Why do you think he was selected for AG?
Partly, to make the House drop their investigation because he's no longer a member...
I knew it was going to be bad, but holy shit...
I've also noticed nobody has even mentioned EPA. My guess is that he will just do away with it altogether.
It's reasonably possible that trump likes him specifically because of these accusations.
What the hell are you talking about?
The president-elect has no idea what Gaetz looks like. The president-elect doesn’t even know Gaetz. The president-elect has never considered Gaetz for AG. The president-elect and Gaetz have never met.
For the uninformed, this is funny (and sarcasm) because there's mountains of evidence of them together. Besides, you know, picking him for AG. But he tries this defense all the time anyway, and people actually believe it.
Just like explicitly Trump calling up members of Congress to kill the bipartisan border bill, and then blaming the Democrats for not passing a border bill. They sold that one on the campaign trail too, and it worked.
Sources
- Matt Gaetz Facebook video of Trump thanking him,
- [Gaetz Introduces Resolution Absolving Trump's Role in Jan. 6 Insurrection] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog9Tm7hqS4)
To be fair Tim Walz tried to point out that Trump voted down the Border Bill.... and everyone just laughed at him and called him Tampon Tim because America is currently in its "Too Dumb To Live" phase
People don't actually believe it, they're just looking for an opportunity to give themselves plausible deniability. To let themselves off the hook for being complete pieces of shit.
Thank you. I don’t mark my sarcasm and I thought I was going to get my post removed for misinformation again lol
Yeah, there's another one not marked that's been up for hours. "Tulsi Gabbard to be Director of National Security." Yeah, okay. Funny joke.
It looks like your memory doesn’t extend before 2020. If you can recall further, you will remember that jokes in the 2020+ era may not be considered jokes in the 2016-2020 era
People who have baggage are easily controllable. Trump’s a mob boss, and he’s equally in the pocket of Putin. He’s used to these tactics.
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The article mentions that he paid her to have sex with him at a party. That also makes it a sex trafficking crime. Also, IANAL but if the jurisdiction had an age of consent lower than 18, the sex trafficking part might negate that.
Also, Gaetz, who was born in 1982, was 35 at the time -- double her age and well outside the limits of any potential Romeo & Juliet laws.
These parties were also said to be full of drugs (in addition to alcohol), which one could argue blurs any consent, especially when your looking at a 35/yr old man wanting to pay a 17/yr girl for sex. He was also a congressman by then, which also makes this a very lopsided power dynamic when arguing consent with a possibly intoxicated underage girl.
The woman's allegation regarding Gaetz became part of the investigation following claims by Greenberg, a former friend of Gaetz who is currently serving an 11-year prison sentence after reaching a deal with investigators in May 2021 in which he pleaded guilty to multiple federal crimes, including sex trafficking of the woman when she was a minor and introducing her to other "adult men" who also had sex with her when she was underage.
This part also make one more inclined to believe this has something to it, and probably more women that aren't coming forward because of all the death threats and toxicity projected at victims.
AND HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE OUR NEW AG!!
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"These allegations are invented and would constitute false testimony to Congress," Gaetz said in response to ABC News' reporting.
AG Gaetz has his first case all lined up doesn't he?
You know what's fucking infuriating? Nothing will happen to this fucker at all.
Nothing has happened to captain cheeto after he literally raped a child, so I can't say I'm surprised.
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