Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican who briefly stood to become President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be attorney general, was found by congressional ethics investigators to have paid numerous women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex, and to have purchased and used illegal drugs, including from his Capitol Hill office, according to a final draft of a comprehensive investigative report obtained by CBS News.
Bummer that voters will forget about this by the time the mid-terms roll around. The Republicans fought tooth and nail to keep this under wraps in full knowledge that Gaetz was participating in the rape of minors.
(The drug use I couldn’t care less about, and I’d argue that no one should.)
I wouldn’t care about the drug use either except that 1) it’s illegal 2) it’s an ethics violation 3) he was going to be attorney general.
If Rapey McHairdo had a (D) after their name they would be in jail
You’re welcome to your opinion. I think all drugs should be legal, personally.
I am not disagreeing about the drugs. My point was their legality. If I am sworn to uphold a set a laws and I do not, then I am a hypocrite. If I swear to abide by a code of ethics and I do not, then I am a hypocrite.
I believe that drugs should be legal and health care should be free.
I also believe that Matt Gaetz is a rapist piece of shit.
Thank you. I understand your meaning.
I don’t hold the law sacrosanct when it’s observably stupid and oppressive.
I don’t care about the drug use either, but I absolutely care that he supplied drugs to children. That shit harms development and makes consent, which is already pretty tepid with a 17 year old, an ethical nightmare. Not that he cares about ethics…
Normally, yes the drug thing shouldn’t be something we care about too much. But I’m pretty sure the drug use is a very valid thing to care about, especially with the allegation that he was giving drugs to minors, and this: “one woman told the committee the use of drugs at the parties and events they attended may have “impair[ed their] ability to really know what was going on or fully consent.””
I think it’s pretty clear we’re referring to consenting adults using drugs recreationally from the context of this discussion.
No reasonable person thinks it’s right to drug a teenager and rape them.
Matt Gaetz is not reasonable.