Matt Gaetz’s teen sex scandal has come back to haunt him again (again)
Matt Gaetz has built his entire brand on being as annoying as humanly possible since he was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives back in 2016.
Over the last seven years, he’s managed to piss off just about everyone, Democrats and Republicans alike, while simultaneously getting reelected by Florida voters.But after his antics last week, in which he threatened to introduce a motion to oust Kevin McCarthy from his role as House Speaker, members of the GOP are finally saying enough is enough.
Anonymous sources within Congress told both CNN and Fox News over the weekend that Republicans are now plotting against Gaetz, saying if an ongoing Ethics Committee investigation into his alleged party boy behavior doesn’t clear him of all wrongdoing, he’s outta there!“No one can stand him at this point,” a source told Fox News. “A smart guy without morals.”Seems like a waste of wine to us.In 2021, Gaetz found himself at the center of a teen sex scandal, in which he was accused of supplying a 17-year-old girl with drugs and alcohol, flying her to to the Bahamas, and having sex with her.This led to additional accusations that the anti-LGBTQ+ congressman was involved in a larger sex trafficking operation and that he regularly paid women for sex via Venmo and Cash App and engaged in illegal drug use.This resulted in the House Ethics Committee launching an investigation, followed by the Justice Department opening probe.
The DOJ eventually decided not to press any charges against him earlier this year, and the ethics investigation fizzled.Until this past July, when the committee re-opened the probe into Gaetz’s alleged misconduct.
