Matt and Nestor: Story gets confusing...

[jmbar2]

According to this compilation, Matt introduced Nestor as his "son" in 2020, and said that he was 19. But there are other pics with him and Nestor from 2016 where Matt refers to him as his congressional "page". That would make Nestor a page at 15?

Then there is a 2014 pic of Matt with "a couple of high school students". That would make Nestor 13?

This story doesn't make sense. Did Matt adopt a high school student in Florida, or his congressional page? I'm confused. My mind doesn't work this way.

Wonder how many more he has adopted.

Link to tweet

[Karadeniz]

1. I'm just as confused.

[dchill]

2. I'm not.

[JI7]

3. He looks way older than 19 in that pic

[OAITW r.2.0]

8. My thoughts, too.

The Nestor story is BS. Gaetz obviously has a lot of criming problems right now. And underage girls? Except for Greene and Gym, I don't see a huge swelling of support from fellow Republicans...I am also sure that Lynn Cheney is going to have a lot to say about Matty.

The more I see him, the more I think "Butthead".

[SheilaAnn]

4. Nestor looks to be around 25/26 years old. Just sayin'..n/t

[Rorey]

5. Maybe this will (not) clear everything up

https://www.theroot.com/we-ve-got-to-talk-about-matt-gaetz-and-his-son-nestor-1846536883

Gaetz may be sicker than we thought.

[jmbar2]

16. Interesting post

I like the writing a lot!

[UTUSN]

18. Bwah!1 The tweet & the author's blurb are hilarious:

Author: "Stephen A. Crockett Jr. Senior Editor @ The Root,
boxes outside my weight class, when they go low, you go lower."

Link to tweet

[Doremus]

6. Gaetz is a perv, another in a long line of rightwing sexual predators. With a hair fetish lol nt

[SweetieD]

7. They probably made him younger on his official paperwork. He looks much older.

[Xavier Breath]

9. Maybe the sunglasses are to hide Nestor's crow's feet.

[OAITW r.2.0]

10. Can you legally adopt a person, 18 years and older?

The story back a few years ago was not really a focus of attention, Trump was sucking up all of the political oxygen. Now though, that whole "adoption" story looks really suspicious. I would imagine lots of people are looking into that facet of Matty's life. He really is the poster boy of Republican politics...and Greene and Gym believe him.....

Has Trump weighed in on this? Gonna be fascinating to watch him throw Matt under the bus.

[Ms. Toad]

15. Yes.

The rules vary state by state - but our daughter was adopted by my spouse in her 20s. So age, alone, is not an inherent barrier to adoptoion.

[OAITW r.2.0]

17. Thanks, did not know.....

[BannonsLiver]

11. I always just assumed they were together.

[soothsayer]

12. Absolutely

[soothsayer]

13. Weird gaetz quote from People:

Elsewhere in the interview, he describes the sequence of events this way: “There was a time period at the beginning of my service in Congress where, based on his age and other circumstances, it was not tenable for him to live with me."

https://people.com/politics/matt-gaetz-tells-story-boy-he-raised-as-a-son/

Also learned there that Nestor wants to study nursing.

[keithbvadu2]

14. Matt 'raised' Nestor? Yet he had to keep it 'secret'?

Matt 'raised' Nestor?

Yet he had to keep it 'secret'?