https://news.yahoo.com/matt-gaetz-blew-fbi-extortion-042700202.html
Either Matt likes 'em “on the younger side,” or there’s an elaborate Deep State extortion plot in action.
Anybody giving odds?
My money’s on retaliation for Cuomo. “You come at one of ours, we come at one of yours.” Just like smearing Bork, Clarence Thomas, Romney as a tax cheat, Kavanaugh, Trump…
#AllDemocratsArePedophiles
Odds on The New York Times is telling the truth?
Or the FBI.
The FBI is pretty much dead to me, they’re just more muscle and spies for the Democrats.
He took this story to the media after being blackmailed.
And sadly we have sellout squishes evan at Redstate wringing their hands about howv “punching back is unseemly”… this is why the GOP is called the Stupid Party, they learned NOTHING from how Bush remained silent and quietly let the Donks cake him with crap.
The only way this stops is when we grow a pair of balls and adopt a policy of “you come for one of ours, we take ten scalps of yours in reply.”
This. Nothing like making a scandal go away in New York like a crisis on the border and a GOP Congressman maybe involved in a 17 year old girl.
It supposedly happened 2 years ago? a 36 YO man and a 17yo girl? I know 17yo can be ‘hot’, but to drag her around the country? I can’t think of anything more annoying to a 30yo man than a 17 year old girl- holy crap that would be annoying. It just doesn’t make sense. Maybe he is that dumb.
Gaetz seemed coked up last night. He should have chilled and said that he was working with the FBI on a black-mail case regarding this type of information- which he did, but in a round about way.
WE’ll see. Shouldn’t take long to parse this out…
So he’s claiming there was an extortion attempt and he went to the FBI about it. Impossible to know where the truth starts and the BS starts in all that.
My money is on leftist lies and if it were true I’d bet she’s not from China.
Rep leadership should look into it. If he did illegal or otherwise dirty shit bounce his ass.
Of course Creepy Killer Coumo and Spy Lovin’ Swalwell will get total makeovers by their sycophants in the press.
He’s openly fighting it, honestly if they’ve got the truth, why does the FBI have to leak the story?
No, the FBI will call CNN and tell them when they are going to arrest you tonight and then they’ll confront your wife with the story on your front lawn in front of the neighbors.
You know there is a hell of a lot more swamp that still needs draining.
The guy tried to extort Gaetz and his Dad wore a wire to expose it, what more can you do?
You forgot they’ll do it at 2 in the morning with full lights/sirens/choppers, kill your dog, and drag her and the kids out into the street in their undies while they do it to further amplify the humiliation.
The swamp doesn’t need draining, it needs to be nuked into glass.
Probably has a lot to do with it…quick clip of him calling out the admin on the border bs.
https://mobile.twitter.com/mamabear_jones/status/1377241556617457665
Watch the interview with Tucker Carlson. Tuck asks the question, How long have you known you were under investigation? Matt doesn’t answer, but immediately starts talking about how all this has affected his family.
The investigation began last fall, when Bill Barr was AG. It’s inconceivable that the AG would not have known about the investigation of a Congressman, and allowed it to go forward. I’m thinking Gaetz has known for months that he’s being looked at, and doesn’t want to admit that on national television. That would belie his extortion story, would it not?
Meanwhile, attorney McGee says he hopes there are tapes, and let’s play them and see who’s telling the truth. Says he has no connection with the case. One question then is, how did Matt focus on McGee? Did he just pick him out of the phone book? What IS McGee’s connection, if any?
Tucker sure stayed clear of any endorsement of Gaetz’s conspiracy theory. Can’t blame old Tuck for being suddenly fact-oriented, when other conservative talkers are being sued for billions by voting machine companies.
Occam’s Razor: The simplest explanation is the preferred one. So:
Is the simpler explanation that there’s a deep state conspiracy to obtain payback on Gaetz and chill conservatives, fomented by various DOJ people, with at least the knowledge and tacit approval of Trump ally Bill Barr, and fronted by a criminal defense lawyer who’s been out of the DOJ for many years, and goes rogue (?) and tries to extort a Congressman for $25 million, and doesn’t make any particular effort to hide his identity . . . . OR . . . does Matt like them “on the younger side?”
Stay tuned on this one.
Edit to delete duplicate post,
IDK, was it simpler to believe that Trump wasn’t a Putin stooge, really loving his country or that Hilliary, Comey, the DNC and a whole host of other D-bags were conspiring to take him down?
deleted…double post probs again.
Simple, produce the evidence and arrest his ass or STFU.
How long would it take to investigate something like that?
My guess is that it was a staffer or intern that he/campaign covered travel expenses. 17 for an intern seems young, but not out of the possible.
The Barr angle I really don’t care for, makes me think it is even more fake. Like Barr would have anything to do with it, and even if it stank to high heaven, Barr would get blamed for protecting one of Trump’s main guys. That there are DOJ/FBI guys looking to head-hunt Trump people- that doesn’t take much to believe. Frankly it was the DOJ/FBI modus for the past 5 years.
The story seems just too odd to believe. But self-destructive, narcissistic a-hole pol? Sure that can happen.
Seems like you’d be able to clear this up pretty fast. The longer the FBI stays quiet, the better the chances it is all BS.