Matt Gaetz reported to be leaving the House

[carlitos]

Wow. I was agreeing with you about the sense of entitlement among some rich powerful (mostly white)guys. I was thinking of Clinton, Ted Kennedy and maybe Trump, just off the top of my head.

I was not trying to whatabout today’s dems or whatever.

 

[Stacyhs]

Wow. I was agreeing with you about the sense of entitlement among some rich powerful (mostly white)guys. I was thinking of Clinton, Ted Kennedy and maybe Trump, just off the top of my head.

I was not trying to whatabout today’s dems or whatever.

Sorry if I misread your intentions. But there's so much whataboutism in these threads it's easy to do, especially when you added in "dems".

 

[Segnosaur]

Yet another.... questionable... action by Matt "Is she legal yet? Don't matter" Gaetz...

From: The Daily Beast
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) appears to have committed at least one much smaller but more straightforward federal violation: failure to disclose how much money he made from a book he published last September....Brett Kappel, an attorney who specializes in government compliance...“Filing an incomplete financial disclosure report is a violation of both the Ethics in Government Act and the House rules,” Kappel said. “The fact that Rep. Gaetz quickly filed an amended report, however, likely means he will suffer no consequences.”

Remember folks... the Republicans are the "Law and Order" party.

 

[plague311]

Yet another.... questionable... action by Matt "Is she legal yet? Don't matter" Gaetz...

From: The Daily Beast
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) appears to have committed at least one much smaller but more straightforward federal violation: failure to disclose how much money he made from a book he published last September....Brett Kappel, an attorney who specializes in government compliance...“Filing an incomplete financial disclosure report is a violation of both the Ethics in Government Act and the House rules,” Kappel said. “The fact that Rep. Gaetz quickly filed an amended report, however, likely means he will suffer no consequences.”

Remember folks... the Republicans are the "Law and Order" party.

Yeah, they never get in trouble for stuff like that. Look at Rand Paul, and others, when it comes to stocks. Dem or Repub, they seem to skate without an issue.

 

[Trebuchet]

Yet another.... questionable... action by Matt "Is she legal yet? Don't matter" Gaetz...

From: The Daily Beast
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) appears to have committed at least one much smaller but more straightforward federal violation: failure to disclose how much money he made from a book he published last September....Brett Kappel, an attorney who specializes in government compliance...“Filing an incomplete financial disclosure report is a violation of both the Ethics in Government Act and the House rules,” Kappel said. “The fact that Rep. Gaetz quickly filed an amended report, however, likely means he will suffer no consequences.”

Remember folks... the Republicans are the "Law and Order" party.

Only applies to the lesser races!

 

[Susheel]

Only applies to the lesser races!

Also, I don't think evading taxes counts. Isn't it the American's patriotic duty to do so?

 

[Stacyhs]

Also, I don't think evading taxes counts. Isn't it the American's patriotic duty to do so?

Only little people pay taxes.

 

[Segnosaur]

And the Gaetz issues keep coming...

From: The Daily Beast
On the day Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial began in the Senate, the campaign for embattled Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)...made by far its largest ever political contribution: $100,000 to a mysterious nonprofit created to defend the then-president.... the nonprofit appears to have done nothing now for more than a year. And even odder is the Gaetz campaign’s own explanation—which experts say raises questions of legality...The group, “Right Direction America,” is a nonprofit launched in December 2019...A campaign spokesperson told The Daily Beast that the organization supports former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who...had announced her 2022 campaign for governor of Arkansas....But there’s no public record of RDA supporting Sanders...Further complicating the ...explanation that RDA supports Sanders, the group’s nonprofit status bars it from participating primarily in political activity.

So, a huge donation to a group that supposedly did nothing with the money, to help a candidate who wasn't even supported by the group (but if they did support her, it might have been illegal).

 

[The Don]

And the Gaetz issues keep coming...

.....and yet here we are, nearly six months later, and there's no indication that Matt Gaetz will be leaving the House any time soon.

 

[Stacyhs]

.....and yet here we are, nearly six months later, and there's no indication that Matt Gaetz will be leaving the House any time soon.

That depends on what the investigation re sex trafficking of a minor comes up with. He may be leaving the House for the Big House.

 

[plague311]

As has been mentioned before, if you swing for the king you better not miss.

Gaetz isn't exactly "a king" but you are going to want an airtight case.

 

[Stacyhs]

Gaetz has proved himself once again to be a piece of cow feces. In order to deflect and distract from his own legal problems/investigation into child sex trafficking, this POS had the audacity and effrontery to say to Gen. Milley that he should resign and that 'if we didn't have a president who was so addled, he would have been fired". An entitled, rich, POS who has never served in the military a day in his life just piled on the crap to man who has served this country almost his entire adult life. If I could slap his smug little face, I'd gladly do so :

 

[jimbob]

Gaetz has proved himself once again to be a piece of cow feces. In order to deflect and distract from his own legal problems/investigation into child sex trafficking, this POS had the audacity and effrontery to say to Gen. Milley that he should resign and that 'if we didn't have a president who was so addled, he would have been fired". An entitled, rich, POS who has never served in the military a day in his life just piled on the crap to man who has served this country almost his entire adult life. If I could slap his smug little face, I'd gladly do so :

Who's the (literal) mouth-breather in front of Gaetz who's unable to work out how to wear a mask?

 

[Stacyhs]

Who's the (literal) mouth-breather in front of Gaetz who's unable to work out how to wear a mask?

I don't know but Liz Cheney ripped Gaetz and a few other Republicans idiots a new one over their questioning of Gen. Milley:

"For any member of this committee, for any American to question your loyalty to our nation, to question your understanding of our Constitution, your loyalty to our Constitution, your recognition and understanding of the civilian chain of command is despicable. I want to apologize for those members of this committee who've done so and I want to thank you for standing in the breach, when so many, including many in this room, failed to do so."

I don't agree with her politics, but she has more cajones than the rest of them put together.

 

[Beelzebuddy]

I don't know but Liz Cheney ripped Gaetz and a few other Republicans idiots a new one over their questioning of Gen. Milley:

"For any member of this committee, for any American to question your loyalty to our nation, to question your understanding of our Constitution, your loyalty to our Constitution, your recognition and understanding of the civilian chain of command is despicable. I want to apologize for those members of this committee who've done so and I want to thank you for standing in the breach, when so many, including many in this room, failed to do so."

I don't agree with her politics, but she has more cajones than the rest of them put together.

It is a sad state of affairs when a Cheney has to lecture others on moral fibre.

 

[Stacyhs]

It is a sad state of affairs when a Cheney has to lecture others on moral fibre.

Isn't that the truth!

 

[kevbo]

I don't know but Liz Cheney ripped Gaetz and a few other Republicans idiots a new one over their questioning of Gen. Milley:

"For any member of this committee, for any American to question your loyalty to our nation, to question your understanding of our Constitution, your loyalty to our Constitution, your recognition and understanding of the civilian chain of command is despicable. I want to apologize for those members of this committee who've done so and I want to thank you for standing in the breach, when so many, including many in this room, failed to do so."

I don't agree with her politics, but she has more cajones than the rest of them put together.

I despise her father, and am not fond of her in any way imaginable. But she deserves credit whenever she says or does the right thing.

 

[Lennart Hyland]

Gaetz has proved himself once again to be a piece of cow feces. In order to deflect and distract from his own legal problems/investigation into child sex trafficking, this POS had the audacity and effrontery to say to Gen. Milley that he should resign and that 'if we didn't have a president who was so addled, he would have been fired". An entitled, rich, POS who has never served in the military a day in his life just piled on the crap to man who has served this country almost his entire adult life. If I could slap his smug little face, I'd gladly do so :

I cant stand these "hearings". From this one and the one with Blinken all I've seen is members of GOP smearing the witnesses with their opinions only asking one or two complex questions demanding an yes or no answer. Is that normal proceedings? Then whats the purpose of that?

I'm amazed how they can just sit there with a straight face and take it.

 

[bruto]

I despise her father, and am not fond of her in any way imaginable. But she deserves credit whenever she says or does the right thing.

Agreed. I'm pretty close to a "blue dog" Democrat, and probably disagree with her on almost everything, but at least she has some integrity, a quality that seems to have been forsaken by most of her party.

 

[carlitos]

I cant stand these "hearings". From this one and the one with Blinken all I've seen is members of GOP smearing the witnesses with their opinions only asking one or two complex questions demanding an yes or no answer. Is that normal proceedings? Then whats the purpose of that?

I'm amazed how they can just sit there with a straight face and take it.

Yes, it's normal. The purpose is for Senators to grandstand on TV and get videoclips for their next election ad. "The World's Greatest Deliberative Body"