Gaetz isn't worth too much of anyone's time, but a few quick words...

[TreasonousBastard]

First, what does one expect from an ingnoramus who can't spell "Gates"? Or is he pretending to be Slovakian royalty?

About the pedophilia-- why get caught up in the rightwing habit of accusing him of a worse act simply because it generates clicks and hatred? Pedophilia is with small children, not teens over the age of consent in a dozen states. Yes, 16 is the age in all those states bordering Florida, so all he had to do was skip to a motel just over the border and he'd be OK.

Trafficking? That's for when you take a hooker over the border. Or take someone over the border to sell her. Federal charges for him are a stretch. Must be more to the story.

This piece of shit is smelly enough to make Mar-a-Gago stink even more. No one has to work to make him look even worse than he is.

[dawg day]

1. He was sniffing around Tiffany Trump last year

Then she got engaged to some really rich scion, and Gaetz was no longer likely to become a second Jared.

So he got engaged in December... at Mar a Lago. How romantic. He has been under investigation forc4 months then.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. I know about the Tiffany thing (although I wish I didn't). This guy just drips the creepies...

He's engaged to some huge Trump donor's daughter.

I think the term is "beard".

[tulipsandroses]

2. This is a disgusting post. Please go read the Federal Trafficking Laws and stop making dumb

assumptions. I make no apologies. For calling this disgusting and dumb.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. You mean this?

https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/trafficking/federallaws/

Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2017, Public Law 115-427 (PDF - 311 KB)
115th Congress (2019)
Requires the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to develop victim screening protocols for local, State, and Federal law enforcement to ensure officers are trained to recognize human trafficking victims and emphasizes enforcement by providing stronger identification, prosecution, and sentencing tools to law enforcement and prosecutors. The law also emphasizes the need for law enforcement to refer human trafficking victims to services instead of arresting, charging, or prosecuting them for offenses resulting from their victimization.

Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (PDF - 398 KB)
Defines "severe forms of trafficking in persons" as the following:

Sex trafficking (i.e., the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act) in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age
The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.

[tulipsandroses]

5. It might help if you understood the definition commercial sex act

Then there would not be a dumb argument of sex trafficking means to transport hookers over the border.
Transporting a minor for the purpose of commercial sex act - yeah that is an actual federal crime.
. The law is clear. You may disagree with it if you want, but that is the law.

[smb]

6. As I Noted On Another Thread...

...the QPublican Party has groomed a voter base too angry and stupid to pay attention to piddling details like the difference between paedophilia and ephebophilia. When that bites them in the butt, we shouldn't let pedantry get in the way of throwing them an anchor.

[ecstatic]

7. Why would a 40 year old man be running around

with a 17 year old girl in this day and age? She's most likely still in high school, ffs, while he graduated over 20 years ago.

Just because ancient laws have deemed it OK doesn't make it right. Call it what you will, but I don't have a problem lumping him in with other pedophiles.

[USALiberal]

8. Trashed! Nt

[Scrivener7]

9. Jesus. This is pretty disgusting. Not to mention ignorant.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. What the fuck is this shit right here.

[Elessar Zappa]

11. I wouldn't call him a pedophile

but it definitely seems he's a sex predator which is bad enough.

[kcr]

12. Nothing right wing about it. The law is the law.

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.

https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/citizens-guide-us-federal-law-child-sex-trafficking#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20Section%202421%20and,any%20other%20illegal%20sexual%20activity.&text=If%20a%20minor%20is%20transported,in%20prison%2C%20up%20to%20life.

[FSogol]

13. Choo-choo! Here comes the excuse train!