Matt Gaetz

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I can't decide is GaetzGate or WaterGaetz is a better name for this scandal.

Of course this is the easy explanation:

Gaetz, meanwhile, has asserted that the allegations were concocted in an attempt to extort twenty-five million dollars from him and his father, a former president of the Florida Senate, who became rich from a chain of hospices.

And with people like Marjorie Taylor Greene supporting you - this should all go away pretty quickly.

Q

Hating Florida like all good hearted people do, I subscribe to a Florida Man (the world's worst superhero) thread on Reddit.  Lately, every third post has been about the Okaloosa Idiot.

The man is living the meme.

Former Gaetz Confidant Pleads Guilty and Agrees to Cooperate - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

A former confidant of Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, admitted in court papers on Friday to an array of federal crimes — including sex trafficking of a minor — and agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department’s investigations, handing prosecutors a potential key witness as they decide whether to charge Mr. Gaetz.

Joel Greenberg, who was a tax collector in the Orlando area until he was indicted last year, did not implicate Mr. Gaetz by name in papers filed by prosecutors in Federal District Court in Orlando.

But Mr. Greenberg admitted that he and unidentified others had paid a 17-year-old girl for sex and that he had provided her with drugs. He admitted that he “introduced the minor to other adult men, who engaged in commercial sex acts” with her, according to the documents, and that he was sometimes present. The others were not named.