Clearly an absolutely pedo
Payments for 'travel' appear to align with a September 2018 trip to the Bahamas, which was reportedly part of the Justice Department’s investigation into Gaetz.
Another “travel” transaction in early January 2019 appears to sync with Gaetz’s alleged arrangements for both women to fly to New York for sex and to accompany him to an appearance on Fox News, according to the women’s attorney Joel Leppard.
In 2021, Gaetz said during an interview that he believes “someone is trying to recategorize my generosity to ex-girlfriends as something more untoward.”
According to a lawyer representing the women, one of his clients testified that she witnessed Gaetz having sex with a girl when she was 17 years old. The attorney representing that woman, who is now in her 20s, has also said that she was a high school student at the time “and there were witnesses.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/matt-gaetz-venmo-ethics-committee-report-b2650722.html
The Ethics Committee has limited powers but the DOJ has immense powers. Garland effectively killed any DOJ investigation into Gaetz. I really want to know how much evidence and what evidence Garland had. It's so weird to me that the DOJ never filed charges.
He wanted to save his successor the embarrassment of closing the investigation himself.
Oof.