Katie Benner, Justice Department reporter for the New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about the DOJ's investigation into avid Donald Trump supporter Rep. Matt Gaetz, clarifying the context of his pushback on the story, and outlining the seriousness of the crimes involved. Aired on 03/31/2021.
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Investigation Of Gaetz Pre-Dates His Extortion Claim By Months: NYT | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
Gaetz violated the Mann Act and was subsequently extorted. The extortionist should be charged, tried and convicted. Gaetz committed a felony offense, he should be charged, tried and convicted.
“Extortion” = preliminary settlement talks with the victim’s lawyer.
@O Buddahee …says the cultist watching Maddow and shitposting.
@Joan of Snark If you look up the definition of a cult, you will notice that you are the one that’s in the cult. Orange Man Bad Cult of Gullible Buffoons. You are the one who has believed nothing but brainwashing and lies. You probably still believe in Russian collusion don’t you?
@Ash Roskell Yes. The coincidence of attempted extortion while an active investigation is underway is too much of a coincidence. What better way to imply guilt than to see if the accused will pay up?
@O Buddahee yada yada yada – anyone who doesn’t drink the coolaid is a crazy leftist, we got it. My guns, truck and hairy balls would disagree.
He screwed himself trying to bring Tucker Carlson into it and Tucker was like WTF? No idea what he’s talking about.. 🤣🤣Opps!!
I could have sworn I just heard about Tucker’s accuser within the last year at the most. It happened 20 years ago.?
@Zach Hogan 😂😂😂
@Ash Roskell haha yup, and Carlson saw the set up immediately and distanced himself. I feel like I need a shower after each time I watch these guys.
Both total losers!
Tucker was told to say that . FOX is so sued it is going broke if they Air his Defense and back it up they are Culpable and can be sued . Gaetz is done for .
“Me thinks republicans protest too much.”
Yep, and some of the Q folk too I’d wager.
@Greg M I’d think, now there’s knowledge of the investigation and that he’s outed himself, there will be a House vote and he’ll be stripped of his chair on that committee, like Margery T-Green was from her schools chair (but I may be wrong. I’m in Australia and may not have your system right)
@Cyn Nicol take a look at your party. The insurrectionist perverts.
@Greg M He needs to be investigated for being slow and stupid.
@Ash Roskell No kidding! Too much. 😀
creeper turns out to be a creeper…i wonder if he wore his gas mask.
Could be a fetish kind of thing. I’ve seen that.
She probably did
@9000ck 🏆
🤣 hope he ends up behind bars for this! He always thinks he’s better than everyone else.
End of the dream life for Gaetz (and Greenberg). And like a lot of ugly dreams, there is a monster at the end of it.
Cmon are we surprised? That guy has whacko written all over him.
There’s something about those perv eyes…
surprised it was a female minor
@Philip Toner Exactly
He use to stalk Tiffany Trump’s IG page, he thought he could get her 🤣🤣🤣
@Lilly Patrick I don’t think he wanted Tiffany, she is way too old for him.
Spoiler alert: Being ‘extorted’ by someone who knows about your crimes doesn’t make you innocent of your crimes.
@Greg M like Swalwell?
@TheDiamond2009 Says the guy in the front row who was screaming “lock her up” at every trump rally.
Says the guy who has already decided Hunter Biden is guilty despite him not having committed any crime.
Stop make a fool of yourself.
@nathan mckenzie Another Chomsky, just what the world needs.
@Walter Burger it was a joke
One of the crazy aspects of this is how can an ex Justice Department employee who’s now in private practice make a Federal investigation go away? He clearly isn’t in a position to do anything about it so has no leverage. It makes no sense.
Im starting to think Trump didn’t surround himself with the best people after all
Wish the rest of the GOP would say the same, drain the swamp of all Trumplicans!
Gee, you think? He’s a piece of trash. As is Gaetz, and it’s so SO easy to see.
*@Anadeo Kommenus:* That, my friend, is the best bit of sarcasm done in a beautiful way.
@Susan Churchwell I’m far from a kid. Please do not talk about intelligence, otherwise you wouldn’t be a Trump supporter. You accused me of name calling and then you called me a kid and said I couldn’t make an intelligent argument. I guess it’s okay for you to say whatever you want and I’m supposed to be the subservient person and speak only when I’m spoken to. I’m the wrong one. No need to go back and forth because I will no longer entertain your idiocracy. Bye Karen
@Joan of Snark to be fair why be fair he doesn’t behave in a fair manner
That’s the one that he got caught for. How many did he NOT get caught for?
That’s what I am thinking!
Good question. Ask Cuomo
@Ray S typical whataboutism. Back under your rock troll. Your dear leader will be joining his cronies in jail soon enough.
@Ray S at least Cuomo was with adults, Gaetz was accusing Cuomo while he was doing worst with minors.
@Ray S Actually, I’ll ask your idol, Donalskaya Trumpov!
That moment you realize you’re so screwed even Tucker Carlson won’t give you an alibi.
@Stars InTheSky actually if both gates comments here about Tucker and the facts of the case are true then Tucker’s not a witness, he’s an accomplice
🤣🤣🤣
@Mark Keogh I think it’s cute you call what Tucker spews “reporting” 😂🤡
@A horse with no name yes, but not remembering it is different than … no, we didn’t.
..and blames it on the MSMedia
*Roy Moore:* I’m the most pervy guy in the Republican party!
*Matt Gaetz:* Hold my beer…
*Brett Kavanaugh:* Did someone say beer? I’ll call P.J. and Squee and we’ll go “wrestle” some girls.
*Gym Jordan:* Wrestle? I’ll pretend I didn’t see/hear that.
I love a good joke, and that was a good joke, lol
hilarious 😂
It’s like The Beatles from the evil mirror universe.
Jordan only wrestles boys
🔥🔥🔥
Lock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up. 🤣 Those going to be some big Gaetz!
“Oooh, if I’d done HALF the things,” etc, etc 😁👍
They’re going to be wide open gaetz once he gets into prison.
@ Mr. R,
Nailed it 🏆
@45asunder1 hope he brings the vaseline 😂
The new PizzaGaetz?
Gaetz: “Well uhhhh…. she was ACTUALLY Antifa cleverly disguised as a teenage Lolita!”
@slactweak your assessment is nothing more than your narcissistic gaslighting.
If she was antiFa … then she was anti Fascist. Nothing wrong with that. Only a Pro-Fa like Gaetz would think its wrong.
@Susan Churchwell No, your statement is on display for any who view this thread to see. I simply dissected your statement, made two empirical observations, and then made an assessment based on those observations. See, THAT’S how critical thinking works. You’d know that if you had the necessary critical thinking skills. Your apparent lack of knowledge in that area renders my assessment accurate.
Anything else?
@slactweak go abuse one else or kick your dog!
@Susan Churchwell I don’t doubt that my observation about your lack of critical thinking skills FEELS like abuse to YOU but it is not. It’s not my fault that YOU didn’t think your statement through BEFORE you posted it. So, nothing else it is then. You and yours stay safe.
End of Line.
Gaetz: “I plead insanity, Judge.”
Judge: “Insanity!?”
Gaetz: “Yeah, Insanity! I’m crazy about that girl!”
@Ratna Mani *child.
Redd Fox?
@Pete Chmielowiec Cheech and Chong.
Old Cheech & Chong routine. 🙂
@Larry Richards
thanks, I remember that now.
I like how he implicated Tucker Carlson and his wife as witness to the trafficking!!!!! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
The DOJ is going to be busy tomorrow!!
Tucker replied to him: “No, I don’t recall anything like that.” 🤣
@Nola Or, old laws still on the books from when people married at very young ages.
@Danny Fisher Wouldn’t that be great?!
I admit i like it when dishonorable Republicans-in-trouble reach out for help from other dishonorable Republicans… and coldly get their hand slapped away. Not a surprise. Picked the wrong team, huh Matt? Conservative mercenaries only help each other when winning… and there won’t be much Conservative winning over the next few years, or maybe forever.
@Sheila Goos
That’s correct. I was just stating a fact that not 17 is an adult in some places in our country. I don’t agree with it tho.
Taking a minor across state lines, no wonder he wants the heat on some one else
If he was driving he was probably drunk
KARMA is coming back to bite Gaetz.
@David Leung sadly, probably not. Gaetz was busted for speeding while drunk but the cop lost was the one who his job
@Fragile Crystal This charge is different in that it’s a federal offence, though Florida seems pretty much the most openly corrupt.
@Jen Vicinity lots of Short Eyes here that love Kids
Geatz gets pulled over by a cop
Cop: Have you been drinking?
Gaetz: She is 18 she told me so.
Cop: Sir can I see your I.D.?
Gaetz: This is absurd she is 18 and a grown woman
Cop: Sir step out of the car
Gaetz: No I will not take a lie detector test because she is 18!
Gaetz: Like I said the LAST FEW times, do you not know who my father is?
LOLOLOL
DO YOU KNOW WHO IAM?!
@Scout For thousands of years families/territories/countries formed alliances by marrying 60 year-old men to 13 year-old young women. Educate yourself before talking nonsense.
@Fred Gagger But the actual wedding often took place when the girl was older. Though, it’s actually irrelevant in this case as the girl was underage in this era.
Fred Gagger How old are you? What century are we in NOW?
There were scores of child predators attacking the u.s. capitol January 6th and Qanons didn’t even realize they were aiding their mortal enemies.
Qanon is full of pedophiles.
@Garry Miller yep. It’s like getting your family into a cult all about being righteous only to find out the leader is screwing your wife & daughter. And your son too, possibly the dog. It’s scary how many people fell for something so absurd
Gaetz is one of those people who just doesn’t know when to stop talking.
When your daddy is rich ,they let you do it 😏
But I don’t get it… how did this get past those wholesome child-defending geniuses at Q-Anon? 😂
@Charlie Hunt So true… so true
Chickens coming home to roost. Let’s see who starts laying eggs.
His name has an “(R)” after it, that’s how.
I guess this is Pizza-gaetz.
As I understand it (& I’ve never looked into it…they’re way too crazy for me), QAnon thinks that it’s Democrats and many Hollywood celebrities are the ones exploiting those children. Gaetz is a true class-A jerk (the kindest thing I can call him), but he is neither a Democrat nor a Hollywood celebrity.
That just proves he’s guilty if he’s being blackmailed . You can’t blackmail an innocent man.
@Susan Churchwell You are beating a horse nobody cares about. Nobody cares because H Biden has no government position or security clearance unlike Trump’s kids .
@Susan Churchwell his story (gaetz’s). Doesn’t add up. That’s why there is so much shade. If he is innocent why did he go on tucker Carlson and lie about it? 🤔 I not saying he is guilty til there is evidence but innocent people shouldnt run around fox telling easily refutable lies. Now even if there was a true story to be told, Matt can’t tell it. He is already an unreliable source.
@Mikey Likesit I couldn’t agree with you more. Thank you.!
@Susan Churchwell Hunter wasn’t “cleared” per se because no credible evidence could be found. He is currently only being audited by the IRS. No longer by either of the two law enforcement agency(s) involved.
Both preliminary investigations were dropped once USIC deemed the “China-Ukraine-GazProm, etc.” intel nothing but Kremlin-manufactured disinformation ahead of the 2020 election. So stated by Barr.
As per usual, it was just more BS coming from the desperate Team Trumputin.
Yes you can. You can threaten to make public accusations. Thats enough to ruin some people.