Gaetz Is in Something Deep, but It's Not the State

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist 

Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is one of the GOP members of the House of Representatives who likes being in the news, or at least he used to.   Since arriving in the nation's capital a little more than four years ago, the relatively young (38) politician has made a name for himself by always trying to be at the forefront of controversies emanating from the Republican side of the aisle, and he worked diligently to ingratiate himself to the most recent Republican occupant of the White House.  Gaetz was seen by some as a "golden boy" within the party who was destined to have a bright political future, never mind the fact that he did not seem to be legislating anything.

But Matt Gaetz was seen by others as  the privileged son whose rich and politically-connected daddy had always bought his reckless son's way out of trouble and who had essentially purchased the eternally wayward youth a seat in Congress.

And for all intents and purposes, Matt Gaetz seemed to be living a charmed existence as a congressman.  He was a rising star in the Republican Party.  He got as much air time on Fox as any of the party leaders, and he was essentially part of the decor at Mar-a-Lago.

Matt was on top of the political world and still climbing - until last week when news broke that he was under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice for possible sex-trafficking and related allegations.  The investigation, which was initiated while William Barr, a Republican appointee, was U.S. Attorney General and in charge of the Justice Department, focused on the congressman allegedly having sex with a 17-year-old girl and paying for her and other young girls to travel across state lines for sex.  A later report further alleged that Gaetz and another Florida Republican official had traveled to the Bahamas aboard a "party plane" with young women in 2018 or 2019, while Gaetz was a member of Congress. 

(The other Florida official on the trip, Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg, has been arrested and charged with sex-trafficking and other crimes, and has reportedly been in discussions with the Feds to strike a plea deal that would likely implicate Gaetz.)

Now is seems that the Feds are also looking into whether Matt Gaetz may have used federal campaign money to make payments to the young women.

Then there have been reports in the news that Congressman Gaetz had been sharing, within the House chamber, tales, photos, and videos of his sexual exploits.

And, as if an investigation by the US Department of Justice is not enough to deal with, the House Ethics Committee has also announced that it is investigating the Florida congressman.  A statement from the committee revealed that it was checking into "public allegations" that Congressman Gaetz 

" . . . may have engaged in sexual misconduct and/or illicit drug use, shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted campaign funds to personal use, and/or accepted a bribe, improper gratuity, or impermissible gift, in violation of House Rules, laws, or other standards of conduct."

They are literally coming at Matt Gaetz on two fronts, the Feds from without and the Congress from within.  A sane, or at least a smart approach to dealing with this legal onslaught would be to lawyer-up and then shut-up, but that does not seem to be the way the young congressman is planning on handling these allegations that could not only result in the loss of his seat in Congress, but in some serious jail time as well.  Gaetz seems to feel that his best defense is to get loud and obnoxious while playing the victim.  

Yesterday he brought out several standard GOP rags that he used to polish up his victimhood with the following tweet:

"I may be a canceled man in some corners.  I may even be a wanted man by the Deep State.

"But I hear the millions of Americans who feel forgotten, canceled, ignored, marginalized and targeted.

"I draw confidence knowing that the silent majority is growing louder very day."

Cancel Culture, the Deep State, and even the Silent Majority!  Wow!  Just wow!  That's almost outrageous enough to make people forget about the alleged sex-trafficking, and the money, and the under-aged girls.

Almost.