Matt Gaetz EXPOSED
We’ve all been waiting a long time for Matt Gaetz to face justice. The federal criminal investigation into him seems to have stalled (he claims he was cleared, but the DOJ has never publicly said any such thing).
House Republicans have also spent months leaking that a damning House Ethics Committee report was on its way and would lead to Gaetz’s expulsion. But that hasn’t happened yet either, probably because the House Republican majority has become so narrow that even temporarily losing Gaetz’s seat (he’d be replaced by another Republican ninety days later) could cost them the majority.
But now Kevin McCarthy appears to be signaling that Gaetz’s time in the barrel is indeed coming. McCarthy is telling reporter Ben Jacobs that he was only ousted as Speaker because “one person wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17 year old.”
The timing stands out here. This is nothing new, but why is McCarthy circling back to it now? The directness of the accusation also stands out. McCarthy is outright accusing Gaetz of underage statutory rape in exact words.
Keep in mind that McCarthy presumably knows much of what’s in the impending House Ethics Committee report about Matt Gaetz. And there would seemingly be more than enough votes for expulsion, given how many House Republicans blame Gaetz for ousting McCarthy. The only question may be if or when the math might allow House Republicans to release the report and expel Gaetz without losing the majority in the process.
In any case, House Republicans’ ongoing failure to do anything about Matt Gaetz should be a major campaign plank for the Democrats in the 2024 election. All of the current House Republicans, including the ones running for reelection in moderate swing districts, are collectively responsible for their party’s inaction on Gaetz. Let’s hold them accountable in November.
