The sex trafficking probe involving Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz is dividing House Republicans and putting pressure on Gaetz’s once-tight relationship with Trump. While Gaetz denies the allegations, new evidence reported by the Washington Post indicates Gaetz moved $85,000 intended for campaigning into his own legal defense fund. MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber discusses what this reveals about Gaetz’s mindset and the bizarre origins of the tangled case. (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. ). Aired on 04/16/2021.
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Sex Crime Probe Bombshell: GOP's Gaetz Leaves Money Trail As Trump Goes Silent
I love Biden’s justice department! Accountability! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
@Henri M Perhaps he did
@debbiedoodiedandi except that they quit.
@Fiona Bologna CAREFUL….
THAT INCLUDES EVERY GOP GOVERNOR IN YOUR RANT….MAGA 🤡 FOLKS LOVE THROWING ROCKS FROM THEIR GLASS HOUSES….
DESANTIS AND 6 OTHER GRANNY KILLING GOP GOVERNORS….BY YOUR MAGA 🤡 LOGIC 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Investigation started by traitor Barr
He can fight all he wants but he’s still guilty as sin, and he IS going to go down… Hard…
@NAZIGOP PEDOtRump back in the day, the communist Soviet union used their media and lies to convince multiple generations of people that their country was inherently bad and needed to be restructured. Pick up a history book and let me know how it turned out for them.
@BC Rat Bikes and you cant answer the question? are you stupid or something? Project much rat? Did you finish school? are you simple?
@Greg A you forgot to take your meds
@Greg A Back in the day ?
Russia/Putin still use those TATICS…..
Putin murders….media he can not control…til this day. Hit those history books…..COMRADE…😏😏😏😏😏😏
Unfortunately he is an elected official.
Pathetic.
I just want to hear his fiancé’s thoughts. Is the wedding still on? MAGA!
Who cares!!
She better ditch Matt ASAP!
This comment is everything. Especially the MAGA part 🤣
@mam564 Melania got what she wanted. A rich husband and citizenship for her, her sister and mother and father.
The son secures the trust fund.
She’s waiting for him to expire.
@Chester jade That’s it, basically.
I just hope this doesn’t end up being the only instance of accountability for powerful republicans.
@nlgrrtt HUNTER….
MAGA 🤡 LOGIC OR
DEFLECTION…
PROJECTION….
DISTRACTIONS….LIKE
SOROS
HUGO
DOMINION
VOTER FRAUD…
PICTURE A REALITY WHERE YOUR PARTY ( THE GOP) BUILT OFF NEPOTISM….LAST TREASONOUS ADMINISTRATION….ALSO 😭😭😭😭😭😭 ABOUT HUNTER…EPIC GOP HYPOCRISY….
EPIC !!!!!!!!!!
@NAZIGOP PEDOtRump yes Mexicans Muslims same song
May they all fall
No accountability yet. I’ll believe it when he’s in a cell.
Hunter is not a government employee.
And the Fools keep sending checks.
@Greg A Thats not proof, dips**t. I heard a story you liked barnyard animals. So I guess that’s true too?
@Fender 89 Chuckling 🤭
@Harry Cooper -What upsets most, is its use, to represent an entire ethnicity/race. In other words, they use it to push their ideals, of bigotry and prejudice.
Let them. A fool is a fool for life.
@Greg A Oh honey, the white pages has nothing to do with real estate acquisitions – it’s a phone number directory. It is also not a public record but a for-profit business and is easily fallible.
Donors should ask for their money back if he’s using it for other than what they donated for, like Legal Problems. Give the money back just like his ‘Friend’s Dumpy had to do.
@Harry Who insider trading vs. a violation of the Mann Act with a minor. Hmmmm…..those seem comparable. 🤡
@Harry Who
Sure, as soon as Kelly Loeffler does first!
I guess that she took a page from her. The republicans showed her the way, and got away with it.
Not saying that it’s right, cuz it’s not…..
@Antony Stringfellow Yes True BUT, when the Politician demands your money it becomes Criminal ,Using the vulnerable to make their pockets thicker. Should be the time politicians either leave office or are Criminally charged for using. But Hey! It’s America. The Dream. Steal what you can and Screw everyone as much as possible. That’s the Price of becoming an American. Use or be Used should be the National Motto.
No wonder 300 million have guns but use it on the wrong People!
@Anonymous because I feel like it. this individual is objectively immoral and disgusting if they believe whatever Pelosi did is on par with what Gaetz is accused of.
@Anonymous because I feel like it. Love the name!
Dragging his “girlfriend” around by the hand suddenly, doesn’t make him look too guilty or desperate…
@stephen ashton thanks for reminding us of Nestor. I’m just certain male victims will inevitably pop up as soon as this first case is proven in a court of law and a conviction recorded.
I think they are just waiting to see how this first test case with female child victims turns out, to see if it’s worth their time to out themselves as male possibly also child victims.
Research shows it’s hard to come forward as a victim, and even more so for males.
In June 2020 Gaetz said he had been living with a male 19-year-old immigrant from Cuba, Nestor Galbán, since Galbán was 12 years old, who was the brother of yet another of Gaetz’s former girlfriends.
Firstly, how old was this girlfriend of Gaetz at the time that she had a brother that was 12 years old? Secondly, was Gaetz doing both siblings? Could Galbán be keeping quiet of potential Gaetz abuse against Galbán because Galbán was warned he could be deported if he ever spoke out? And thirdly, why is Gaetz continuously being linked to Caribbean countries when it comes to sexual interactions he’s having with at least some alleged minors that we know of so far?
Did you see that weird engagement picture he posted after he proposed? He was kissing her like he had to kiss his grandmother on the lips
@Tough titty P Diddy
He’s probably creeped out, she is old for him. 😂😂
@Tough titty P Diddy he could have been thinking her age made her no different to a grandmother, considering the ages of the girls he’s now accused of having been abusing.
The 🐀 will turn on little creepy mattie What a flippin tool showing pictures of women ( or maybe underage girls) on the floor of Congress
Following the money is the best way to find the criminals. On another note, couldn’t happen to a nice guy.
@Greg A 😂😂😂😂 Pathetic.
@Greg A Hunter Biden? A private citizen.
@Greg A Show the evidence you have anything having to do Hunter Bidens laptop. I’ve been watching and waiting for a year for that laptop to come out. Come on, enough already, bring it out or shut up and go away!
@Greg A no, according to Tucker Carlson, Fox News has the “evidence” from “Hunter’s laptop”. Why haven’t they released it and why did they take the videos of Tucker talking about revealing it down?
@Kenneth Wright After the Durham Report??
“I have not begun to fight for the country I love” The country doesn’t love you Gaetz!
He just loves himself & the country that allows him to do whatever he wants with impunity.
I think he was hinting that he’s moving to Russia and joining the military?
What does him fighting for the country have to do with what hes done? What’s he fighting for?
One of the truest saying I’ve heard is ‘ patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel’ In his case that fits perfectly!
@D B Joining the military? 😂🤣😂🤣😂
While Gaetz and his slimy friend were busy digging graves for their enemies, they had forgotten to dig two holes for themselves.
😂
Oh I’m not so sure about that seems to me that mr Gaetz and Greenberg have dug themselves into a pretty deep hole
Get Trump and USA will b happy but this a good start.
Yah that and privacy settings!👍🏻
Did you see the project veritas Video on cnn about Gaetz?
Kevin McCarthy is silent cause he partied with Gaetz.
Yep! He’s probably part of the investigation
I hope Tucker ends up having to testify as a “witness”..
@Harry Who I think that gets filed under “whataboutism” – no?
@UC0SKIqdcRKjt8o7cmQG_9Ew exactly so. I see lots of capital letters but no context.
@aroperdope – I believe that alpha-numeric soup means the poster got 86’d…
Me too, thank you.
Matt’s parents raised a horrible human being. Matt was taught to believe that his privileged and elite status meant that he was impervious to any consequences of his actions. And you can see it in that permanent vainglorious expression on his face. It’s the look of profound arrogance, obtuseness, pomposity, self-righteousness, conceit, and pretentious superiority.
Straight out of the trump playbook
And also, his eyes look like 2 raisins stuck in a lump of cookie dough.
True enough and voted up.
hahaha ,Is it weird that i hit like and wrote this before i read anything after the first sentence ?!
@Tex Hunter I don’t like him.
“I’m going to fight, and I’m going to steal money from my donor’s to do so.” What a LOSER!
You talking about Gaetz or Dump?
He is following Trumps playbook. He stole from donors so that he would have money to live in Florida, pay for his orange hair blubber statue and that dress his wife wore which looked like a bunch of colors vomited all over her.
His donor’s what?
It’s the current Republican mode of operations…
Wait for Trump to say “I don’t know Matt Gaetz, never met him”
As he did with David Duke’s! Shitholes
Hahaha! So cute, he says “Remember the Talking Heads song?” He’s says: Uh no
Lol!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂
I once asked if I should feel guilty for silently enjoying every morsel that falls from the Matt Gaetz scandal… the response was overwhelming. Don’t! I was even offered popcorn, and a seat at the sofa. The Germans even have a word for when one feels joy at one’s enemy’s demise… after reading, I can openly say, I feel an overwhelming sensation of pure joy watching Gaetz fall apart slowly! 🤫
The whole damned lot of them are disgusting. There aren’t enough showers to wash this blank’n blank’n stank off! Just blows my ever loving mind that there are people who behave this way!?!?
I remember in high school my parents always told me “you’re judged by the company you keep”.
Seeing Gaetz speaking just adds credence to the old adage “If you see a politicians lips moving, you know he’s lying”.