Can they just release the report? Why is this guy still walking around free?
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I have a suspicion the House is holding it over his head to keep him from swearing in for the next congressional session. He won his election this year, so he could just simply re-jiin the House even though he resigned for this term.
Resigning from the 119th congress is essentially an admission of guilt at this point. Whatever is in that report will most likely remain sealed as long as he has the cover of being a private citizen once again, which is why he turned these two opportunities down - to keep the evidence of his wrongdoing under wraps so he can't be held accountable by either the public or the justice department.
So, Matt Gaetz is a pedophile and a child molester. And knowing the state of our shitty fucking country he's probably going to get away with it.
as long as he has the cover of being a private citizen
Man, if you get elected into ANY government office you shouldn't be able to be considered a private citizen.
And trafficker. I thought the qanon wanted to "save the children"?
Or is this just IOKIYAR?
I'm hoping against everything else that Johnson will stop protecting him because he's now not worth anything to them now and isn't worth the political capital to protect 🤞
I mean, #metoo took forever to come around. I like to think in some future he'll get boned
He can pull out now. But he may have already come a little
too close to getting the job. Might have blown it.
The house could birth an investigation that spawns many problems.
Shouldn't have been so childish.
Tobias, you blow hard!
I appreciate the effort.
Alright Marjorie Trailer-Queen, time to nut up (🤮 sorry) and leak (it keeps getting worse) that incriminating info about your fellow GOPedo colleagues that you were so brazen about earlier
She never had any intention of releasing anything. She was trying to keep the Gaetz report from coming out.
She got a hush appointment so she won't be talking about ethics reports anymore.
not so quick, maybe you are running from something, we should look into that. We wouldnt wanna spend all that tax payer money on nothing.
Whack the mole now so it doesn't show up somewhere else.
Please don't nominate him for anything else. He resigned from Congress. This could be incredibly hilarious.
Edit: and if any Democrat on the ethics committee doesn't leak the report they should all be primaried and removed from their posts.
Note that while he resigned from this current Congress, he did get reelected to the next Congress, so he'll still be a US rep in Florida once the session starts in late January. Just kind of an extended two month vacation really.
Maybe not, according to https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/21/us/trump-gaetz-news/5e296b83-bf2f-50cc-96b8-5049b764b8a9?smid=url-share:
Absent extraordinary events, we do not expect to see Gaetz back in the House next Congress. When he submitted his resignation to the House last week after being tapped for attorney general, he wrote: “I do not intend to take the oath of office for the same office in the 119th Congress.”
It is always possible that Gaetz can invoke the ancient privilege of "SIKE!!!!" And take it all back. But then the ethics report will get released....
Unfortunately for him I mumbled "no takesies backsies" when he resigned so that's off the table
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Wouldn't that mean the house investigation can be resumed? I don't think he wants that.
It can be, but it won't be
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Weird. Either there's a 4D chess move here, or Trump doesn't have full control of the GOP like he wants.
That's going to cause problems.
Or Gaetz is hoping that no further details from the ethics report leak, and he can salvage his career after this blows over. If it ever does that is.
I don't think the GOP was honestly expecting him to win.
Or Trump just named somebody he knew would have no chance and make the Left waste energy opposing him, so that they're more accepting of whomever he names for real.
Ugh. I know I'm more accepting. And disgusted by it :(
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i wonder if he’s going to transition into being another annoying right wing pundit. he was always more of a talker than a doer in the house, and i can’t imagine him going back there because of the pending ethics report. maybe he’ll take pete hegseths place on fox news
I mean okay, I mean Trump will just pick something worse. I'm more disappointed that Democrats didn't grow a spine and just release the house report on Gatez.
I'm more disappointed that Democrats didn't grow a spine
So you are perpetually disappointed, got it.
Yeah, pretty much.
He's already announced his next pick. It's Carole Baskin
/S
Someone named Pam Bondi. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/politics/pam-bondi-attorney-general-trump.html
Anti gay marriage, anti health care... I gave up reading at that point... Didn't need to know anything more to know I can expect nothing good for the American people from her.
We didn't need to read the article to know that.
Gotta be something big to quit congress after being reelected and then decline the cabinet nomination used to justify pulling out.
This sounds like something serious. Someone should search his couches!
He quit to end the Congressional investigation. Was on his way out one way or another. This was just his attempt to fall upwards.
Maybe they'll add him to the DOGE roster after this. You can fuck all the teenagers you want over there and nobody will complain
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How many Scaramuccis was that?
Scaramucci actually got the job, so it's probably negative Scaramucci's
He held the nomination for .8 Scaramuccis, and was fired 6.2 Scaramuccis before his earliest possible hire date.
Edit: Did Scaramucci math
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Huh. I would have thought they left him in, even if it was as a lightning rod to attract attention while the other nominees all got through.
Must have been he didn't want to be questioned too much.
I forget who on the NPR politics podcast said that he would get pushed out in backroom conversations, and not on the floor of the house, she nailed it.
They don't want the public drama and infighting, because it makes them look even more incompetent. If they're going to push you out, they're going to do it behind closed doors.
So, which clown is next? RFK, the WWE lady, Doctor Oz?
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He REALLY does not want that ethics probe released. Which means we absolutely should.
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