Post New Article

About Those Allegations Against Matt Gaetz

Original Article

Posted By: ScarletPimpernel, 11/20/2024 3:42:00 PM

Some years ago, I heard that Matt Gaetz had been accused of having sex with an underage girl. Much later, I understood that the claim had turned out to be false and had been dropped. But now, following Gaetz’s nomination as Attorney General, it has reappeared in the guise of a House Ethics Committee investigation and attendant newspaper leaks. Headlines have been full of salacious references to sex with a 17-year-old. I wondered why that was ever a matter for criminal investigation, since in most states 17 would be above the age of consent. But the age of consent is 18 in Florida, where I take the incident supposedly occurred.

Comments:

According to Mollie Hemmingway's article, linked in this piece, the accuser, one Joel Greenberg, currently serving eleven years in jail, is "one of the most corrupt Florida politicians of all time" who has "a history of false sex smears."

Post Reply

Reminder: “WE ARE A SALON AND NOT A SALOON”

Your thoughts, comments, and ideas are always welcome here. But we ask you to please be mindful and respectful. Threatening or crude language doesn't persuade anybody and makes the conversation less enjoyable for fellow L.Dotters.


Reply 1 - Posted by: franq 11/20/2024 4:13:23 PM (No. 1839395)
No accusations are too low for a leftist. We are fed up
16 people like this.

Reply 2 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 11/20/2024 4:15:28 PM (No. 1839396)
They know that conservatives care about morals, so this is their go-to lie. If dems heard that their candidate had sex in a bus station bathroom, they would not care.
14 people like this.

Reply 3 - Posted by: john56 11/20/2024 4:24:05 PM (No. 1839402)
I wonder if Mr Greenberg is/was a Democrat. If this is all this vaunted "ethics report" is based upon, Matt should be able to shut up the howling hyenas of the left pretty good. Might be worth buying tickets for that confirmation hearing.
7 people like this.

Reply 4 - Posted by: stablemoney 11/20/2024 4:49:14 PM (No. 1839416)
Greenberg is in jail. And why do we never hear who referred this to the ethics committee? I think we know it was Democrats.
7 people like this.

Reply 5 - Posted by: watashiyo 11/20/2024 8:43:47 PM (No. 1839501)
Republicans will buckle.
0 people like this.

Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "ScarletPimpernel"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
Most Recent Articles posted by ScarletPimpernel"
Republicans Must Defend Matt Gaetz ToEnd
The Use Of Salacious LiesAs A Poliical Weapon
15 replies
Posted by ScarletPimpernel 11/20/2024 4:20:10 PM Post Reply
Before marrying in 2021, former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., was known to be a braggadocious libertine. No conservative wants to defend such behavior, and so many on the Right are remaining silent as Gaetz is accused of also engaging in criminal conduct, paying prostitutes, and having sex with a minor. The claims against Gaetz are but another information operation, however, mirroring the ones that previously targeted Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh. And this pattern will continue unabated unless Americans unflinchingly condemn the tactic — no matter the target.
About Those Allegations Against Matt Gaetz 5 replies
Posted by ScarletPimpernel 11/20/2024 3:42:00 PM Post Reply
Some years ago, I heard that Matt Gaetz had been accused of having sex with an underage girl. Much later, I understood that the claim had turned out to be false and had been dropped. But now, following Gaetz’s nomination as Attorney General, it has reappeared in the guise of a House Ethics Committee investigation and attendant newspaper leaks. Headlines have been full of salacious references to sex with a 17-year-old. I wondered why that was ever a matter for criminal investigation, since in most states 17 would be above the age of consent. But the age of consent is 18 in Florida, where I take the incident supposedly occurred.
Illegal Alien Found Guilty on All Counts
of Murdering Laken Riley in Georgia
17 replies
Posted by ScarletPimpernel 11/20/2024 12:44:42 PM Post Reply
An illegal alien Tren de Aragua gang member has been convicted on all counts for murdering 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley in Athens, Georgia in February of this year. The felon had been released from the southern border into the United States by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s administration and given a work permit. On Wednesday, an Athens judge found Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal alien from Venezuela, guilty of murdering Laken Riley after stalking her on an early morning jog around the University of Georgia (UGA) campus on Feb. 22, 2024.
Report: Kamala Harris Blew $20 Millionon
Election-Eve Concerts with Lady Gaga,Katy
Perry in Swing States WhereTrump Beat Her
30 replies
Posted by ScarletPimpernel 11/9/2024 8:24:30 AM Post Reply
Amid the stunning revelation that Kamala Harris’ unsuccessful presidential campaign ended up $20 million in the red, despite raising $1 billion from donors, a new report has found that the rock concerts that her campaign staged on the night before the election — featuring Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and others — collectively cost around that same amount, up to $20 million. Now vendors and others who worked on those concerts, which were meant to persuade “low-propensity voters” to turn out for Harris, are reportedly facing the prospect of unpaid invoices.
'Fly Me To The Moon': A movie tale of
JFK, Sinatra, and Trump
0 replies
Posted by ScarletPimpernel 9/14/2024 10:54:05 AM Post Reply
There is a new movie out called “Fly Me To The Moon.” To which I say, “It’s about time, we haven’t been back there in more than 50 years,” as incredible as that may seem. And it does seem incredible, given the (astronomical?!) advances in computer technology during that time. In 1972, when man last walked on the moon, there were no cell phones, no pocket calculators, and only three main television stations in the United States. Richard Nixon was president. And gasoline was 36 cents a gallon. There was nothing the U.S. couldn’t do or achieve.
IT WAS A SETUP! – Senator Hawley: Whistleblowers
Most of Trump Security Working Rally Were
Not Even Secret Service
23 replies
Posted by ScarletPimpernel 7/19/2024 11:18:29 AM Post Reply
And the hits keep coming. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday demanding answers on the attempted assassination attack on President Trump at his rally in Pennsylvania last .Senator Hawley wrote that whistleblowers have notified him that a majority of the security officials working the rally last weekend were not even Secret Service personnel but were with the Homeland Security Investigations team!
Are theatres turning off air-conditioning
to suppress the box office for Sound of Freedom?
13 replies
Posted by ScarletPimpernel 7/12/2023 8:46:17 AM Post Reply
We have received multiple emails from people saying that theaters are telling patrons that air-conditioning is broken in the auditoriums showing the hit movie Sound of Freedom and offering another movie or a refund. Many people fear that a campaign is underway to suppress the box office totals for the film, which exposes the sex-trafficking of children. The box office success of SoF is particularly embarrassing for Disney, whose ridiculously expensive Indiana Jones movie is performing poorly and unlikely to earn a profit,
The extraordinary behind-the-scenes friendship
in Casablanca
8 replies
Posted by ScarletPimpernel 4/5/2023 8:25:47 AM Post Reply
Casablanca. At the time it was made, none of the actors knew it was destined to be a classic, turning up in list after list of the greatest movies of all time. They didn’t know that lines like “Here’s looking at you, kid,” “We’ll always have Paris,” and “This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship” were going to enter popular culture. They couldn’t predict that Casablanca’s plot continues to be inspiring, with the studiously disinterested Rick Blaine and the corrupt Captain Renault shaking off their apathy when they realized the size of the Nazi threat and saw that people would willingly sacrifice themselves to fight back.
El Salvador's President Bukele produces
the receipts on Biden corruption
3 replies
Posted by ScarletPimpernel 12/14/2021 9:48:11 AM Post Reply
El Salvador's President Nayim Bukele is something of a freak, a loose cannon. His twitter photo should give you the idea: I can't tell if he's on the right or left, he's some kind of opportunist who's often described as a caudillo. He's an ex-communist with Venezuelan advisors, as the screen shot indicates at the top. But apparently the country's real communists don't like him. He's trashed his country's future by dropping the U.S. dollar as the country's currency and replacing it with bitcoin, an unreliable ledger currency favored by drug dealers, money launderers, and fast-buck speculators.
Biden's Soviet-values bank nominee, Saule
Omarova, has been busted for shoplifting
at T.J. Maxx
17 replies
Posted by ScarletPimpernel 11/18/2021 10:20:33 AM Post Reply
As we often say about Joe Biden, he knows how to pick 'em. So now we have the revelation from the Washington Free Beacon that the Soviet-honored, Soviet-educated Saule Omarova, who wants to nationalize your bank account for the state, has a record as a petty thief. Saule Omarova, whom Biden tapped to serve as Comptroller of the Currency, was arrested after she was caught stuffing $214 worth of clothes, shoes, cologne, and belts in her purse at a T.J. Maxx in Madison, Wis., in May 1995. Omarova was 28 years old at the time and studying for her doctorate at the University of Wisconsin.
Canada’s churches burning as ‘civil liberties’
leader and other lefties cheer
8 replies
Posted by ScarletPimpernel 7/8/2021 8:39:06 AM Post Reply
The same sort of anti-White racist, left wing revolutionaries that have burned swaths of American cities are terrorizing parts of Canada with terroristic arson attacks. But lacking any history of slavery or historic oppression of Blacks, the Canadian thugs have seized upon alleged mistreatment of indigenous peoples, called “First Canadians” according to recent local custom north of the border. The result has been a wave of church burnings recently, including ten churches in Alberta on Canada’s national holiday, Canada Day, just a few days ago.
Bill Gates allegedly had a bromance
with Jeffrey Epstein
13 replies
Posted by ScarletPimpernel 5/17/2021 8:12:01 AM Post Reply
Whether you believe in QAnon or not, one of the points that Q made was the claim that pedophilia tied together many of the world’s power brokers. That’s would make it unsurprising that Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted pedophile who continued his wicked ways even after his conviction, had such a big network of rich and powerful people who knew about his vicious propensities and seemingly didn’t care. Even knowing that, it’s still big news to learn that Bill Gates, one of the world’s richest and most powerful men, had a deep friendship with Epstein.
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
Europe prepares for WW3: Now Germany reveals
plans to mobilise national defence and
800,000 NATO troops after Kremlin nuke
threat - as US announces new weapon Kyiv
can use to stop Russia after allowing
long-range missile strikes
31 replies
Posted by Imright 11/20/2024 9:09:07 AM Post Reply
European nations are gearing up for an all-out war on the continent as Ukraine launched US-made missiles into Russia for the first time and Vladimir Putin officially lowered the threshold for Moscow to consider a nuclear strike. Germany's foreign minister yesterday vowed her country 'will not be intimidated' by Putin, just one day after German media revealed the nation will transform into a NATO staging ground if the conflict to the East should escalate. According to a 1,000-page document entitled 'Operationsplan Deutschland', Germany would reportedly host hundreds of thousands of troops from NATO countries and serve as a logistics hub for sending huge quantities of military equipment,
Should Biden Resign And Make Kamala Harris
The First Woman President? I&I/TIPP Poll
28 replies
Posted by 4250Luis 11/20/2024 6:20:21 AM Post Reply
Both before the November 5 presidential election and after, there’s been plenty of talk about President Joe Biden stepping down and making Vice President Kamala Harris America’s first female president. Despite ardent backing from Democratic Party stalwarts, the idea isn’t a popular one, as the latest I&I/TIPP poll indicates. Some Democrat activists, humbled by the Electoral College drubbing they took from former (and soon to be current) President Donald Trump, have pushed hard to have the age-hobbled Biden step down from the office of the presidency so that Kamala can take over and make history —
Mentally Deranged Washington Post Columnist
Jen Rubin: ‘Republicans Want to Kill
Your Kids’ (Video)
20 replies
Posted by Imright 11/20/2024 4:28:54 AM Post Reply
Jen Rubin, a columnist for the Washington Post, has truly lost her mind. This has been building for several years now. The 2016 election of Donald Trump broke her mind and since then, instead of finally coming to her senses, she has gotten progressively worse. This goes beyond Trump Derangement Syndrome. This woman obviously has serious mental health issues but for some reason, is still employed by the Post. Rubin was recently doing some sort of podcast type of broadcast, and while offering political advice to the left, suggested saying that Republicans want to kill your kids,
Illegal Alien Found Guilty on All Counts
of Murdering Laken Riley in Georgia
17 replies
Posted by ScarletPimpernel 11/20/2024 12:44:42 PM Post Reply
An illegal alien Tren de Aragua gang member has been convicted on all counts for murdering 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley in Athens, Georgia in February of this year. The felon had been released from the southern border into the United States by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s administration and given a work permit. On Wednesday, an Athens judge found Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal alien from Venezuela, guilty of murdering Laken Riley after stalking her on an early morning jog around the University of Georgia (UGA) campus on Feb. 22, 2024.
Republicans fume as GOP absences help
Democrats move judicial nominees
17 replies
Posted by 4250Luis 11/20/2024 6:25:57 AM Post Reply
Senate Republicans aired frustrations Tuesday after Vice President-elect Vance and other party members skipped votes Monday, greasing the skids for Democratic-backed judicial nominees to be greenlighted as part of a final push to fill the bench with lifetime appointees before President-elect Trump takes office. Republicans on Monday attempted to slow down an effort by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to advance more than a dozen judicial nominees, which Democrats have prioritized before ceding power at year’s end.
Nancy Pelosi melts down into a smoking ruin 17 replies
Posted by Mercedes44 11/20/2024 6:09:14 AM Post Reply
As Democrats lick their wounds following the Nov. 5 election, there's plenty of finger-pointing to go around. But it's not hard to argue that former House Speaker and eminence grise Nancy Pelosi bears the most blame of all: The Biden-Harris economy was so bad that $1 billion can’t even rig an election anymore. But really, the Democrats' biggest problem wasn’t fundraising; it was twofold: Their strategy sucked, and their brand ambassadors were gross. And the one person most responsible for it all… pic.twitter.com/Kb9Kr77BT9 — Hollywood Resistance (@ResistItAllTX) November 18, 2024
Republicans Must Defend Matt Gaetz ToEnd
The Use Of Salacious LiesAs A Poliical Weapon
15 replies
Posted by ScarletPimpernel 11/20/2024 4:20:10 PM Post Reply
Before marrying in 2021, former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., was known to be a braggadocious libertine. No conservative wants to defend such behavior, and so many on the Right are remaining silent as Gaetz is accused of also engaging in criminal conduct, paying prostitutes, and having sex with a minor. The claims against Gaetz are but another information operation, however, mirroring the ones that previously targeted Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh. And this pattern will continue unabated unless Americans unflinchingly condemn the tactic — no matter the target.
SHENANIGANS! 'Hacker' Allegedly Downloaded
Sealed Deposition of Discredited Gaetz Accuser
15 replies
Posted by FlyRight 11/20/2024 6:03:19 AM Post Reply
We knew that Democrats and swampy Republicans would never just sit back and allow Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to be confirmed as Attorney General for Donald Trump's second administration without a knock-down, drag-out fight, and the shenanigans in the effort to derail the nomination are ramping up. The New York Times reported Tuesday morning that 24 files with "damaging testimony" about Gaetz were obtained by a "hacker," but that so far the hacker has not publicly released any of the information.
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are
reportedly expats in the U.K. — because Trump?
14 replies
Posted by Dreadnought 11/20/2024 9:44:29 PM Post Reply
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi flippin’ love Montecito. They do. They love it so much they have reportedly owned and/or flipped at least 21 properties there. Nevertheless, they are ditching Santa Barbara County. The ex-Montecitans are now expats after the reelection of a certain ex-president, the Wrap reports. DeGeneres and De Rossi are now at home in the U.K. The pair are voracious home buyers. They have bought and sold a number of properties around L.A., yet the Santa Barbara area was a particular favorite. Site Line, which keeps an eye on upscale real estate in those parts, said in February that DeGeneres and De Rossi had spent at least $350 million
Morning Joe’ Ratings Fall After Trump
Meeting Announcement
14 replies
Posted by Mercedes44 11/20/2024 2:16:55 PM Post Reply
After the co-anchors of MSNBC’s Morning Joe announced Monday that they had met with president-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago the previous Friday as part of what they dubbed a “new approach” for covering him, many viewers of the program turned their focus elsewhere, according to Nielsen data. The numbers, obtained by Mediaite, show that after Joe Scarborough and Mike Brzezinski broke the news shortly after 6 a.m., 38 percent of those in the 25-54 demographic had stopped watching by the next hour. Given the show’s early morning time slot, viewership typically rises from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. President Joe Biden has been known to tune in regularly.
US will allow Ukraine to use antipersonnel
land mines against Russian forces
14 replies
Posted by FlyRight 11/20/2024 8:56:45 AM Post Reply
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday that the Biden administration will allow Ukraine to use American-supplied antipersonnel land mines to help fight off Russian forces. Speaking to reporters during a trip to Laos, he said the shift in policy follows changing tactics by the Russians. Austin said Russian ground troops are leading the movement on the battlefield, rather than forces more protected in armored carriers, so Ukraine has “a need for things that can help slow down that effort on the part of the Russians.” “The land mines that we would look to provide them would be land mines that are not persistent,
Report: DHS Warns Tren de Aragua Operating
in 16 States and D.C.
14 replies
Posted by Imright 11/20/2024 12:22:57 AM Post Reply
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has warned that the Venezuelan street gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) is now operating in 16 states and the District of Columbia, according to a report from the New York Post. An internal memo sent to DHS officials warned that the Tren de Aragua gang had recently been reported in places such as the nation’s capital, Virginia, Montana, and Wyoming. The memo also noted that in places where the Venezuelan immigrant population is increasing, there is more “potential for violent TdA migrants,” according to the outlet.“As the population of Venezuelan nationals continues to increase, the potential for violent TdA migrants is highly probable,”
Post New Article