Matt Gaetz reported to be leaving the House

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Looks like the House's best Ace Ventura look alike might be leaving to take a job at Newsmax. Which would be great because he's a complete and total dumbass, and he'll fit in perfectly at Newsmax. I also think the GOP might start to believe they aren't going to win the House back. I've heard a lot that it sucks being in the minority in either branch of Congress. Source

Gaetz, who was first elected to the House in 2016, the same year Trump won the presidency, has told allies that he is thinking about ending his congressional career in its third term. He's started early conversations with Newsmax about joining the conservative network, according to Axios.
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Yeah I imagine being a pure obstructionists troll is a lot harder when you aren't in charge and can't just ignore the other side.
 
Typical Trump conservative values. When things get tough, whine and quit.
 
dirtywick said:
Typical Trump conservative values. When things get tough, whine and quit.
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But that's the part I don't get - how "tough" is it, really? Now he literally doesn't have to do anything at all, other than whine about how the Democrats won't listen to the GOP. He needs no policies, no positions, no fact-finding, or all that other stuff he'd have to pretend to care about if they were actually in charge any more. Instead of "whine and quit", it should be "whine and cash your paycheck."

Unless the new gig pays a lot more, of course. What kind of premium would you need to give up a job where you have literally nothing you have to do?
 
plague311 said:
Looks like the House's best Ace Ventura look alike might be leaving to take a job at Newsmax.
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That might not be why he's leaving:
Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida and a close ally of former President Donald J. Trump, is being investigated by the Justice Department over whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him, according to three people briefed on the matter.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/us/politics/matt-gaetz-sex-trafficking-investigation.html
 
This is a new one:
n an interview with the Times, Gaetz said that his lawyers had been in contact with Justice Department officials, who informed him that he was the subject of a federal inquiry. “I only know that it has to do with women,” Gaetz said. “I have a suspicion that someone is trying to recategorize my generosity to ex-girlfriends as something more untoward.” The report came on the same day of an apparent leak from his camp that he was considering an early retirement from Congress to seek a role on the conservative network Newsmax.
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MSN not paywalled
 
It was then that qanon realized the real pedophiles were the friends they'd made along the way.
 
Per his twitter a few hours ago:

Over the past several weeks my family and I have been victims of an organized criminal extortion involving a former DOJ official seeking $25 million while threatening to smear my name.

We have been cooperating with federal authorities in this matter...
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...and my father has even been wearing a wire at the FBI’s direction to catch these criminals. The planted leak to the FBI tonight was intended to thwart that investigation.

No part of the allegations against me are true, and the people pushing these lies are targets...
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...of the ongoing extortion investigation.

I demand the DOJ immediately release the tapes, made at their direction, which implicate their former colleague in crimes against me based on false allegations.
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Conspiracy!

Even if this were true he knows that the FBI is not going to release information on an ongoing investigation, especially one in organized crime.
 
I do hope it's true that Gaetz is leaving Congress. Newsmax can have him. He's just the kind of cockroach that would fit in there. But, oh...the schadenfreude I'd experience if it turns out to be true that he is guilty of having a sexual relationship with a 17 year old and taking her over state lines.
 
the cockroach said:
Over the past several weeks my family and I have been victims of an organized criminal extortion involving a former DOJ official seeking $25 million while threatening to smear my name.

We have been cooperating with federal authorities in this matter and my father has even been wearing a wire at the FBI’s direction to catch these criminals. The planted leak to the FBI tonight was intended to thwart that investigation.

No part of the allegations against me are true, and the people pushing these lies are targets of the ongoing extortion investigation.

I demand the DOJ immediately release the tapes, made at their direction, which implicate their former colleague in crimes against me based on false allegations.
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Even if all this is 100% true and he is as innocent as a little spring lamb, why is it that he has to leave politics and go to Newsmax as a result?

ETA: Could it be that he is just so putrid that he is being forced by his own party to "leave...just leave"?
 
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Norman Alexander said:
Even if all this is 100% true and he is as innocent as a little spring lamb, why is it that he has to leave politics and go to Newsmax as a result?

ETA: Could it be that he is just so putrid that he is being forced by his own party to "leave...just leave"?
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Nah, too many in his putrid party are just as putrid.
 
Bob001 said:
That might not be why he's leaving:

Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida and a close ally of former President Donald J. Trump, is being investigated by the Justice Department over whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him, according to three people briefed on the matter.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/us/politics/matt-gaetz-sex-trafficking-investigation.html
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I'm sure he could brazen this out if he chose to. It's not like allegations of this nature is a barrier to political advancement any more.

IMO it's just a case of even more money for even less work.
 
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