"I'm being falsely accused of exchanging money for naughty favors," says Matt Gaetz.

[Nevilledog]

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“I’m being falsely accused of exchanging money for naughty favors,” says Matt Gaetz.

Moving a 17 yr old across state lines, plying her with alcohol and drugs, and paying to have sex with her is criminal.

Not a naughty favor.

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‘Naughty favours’: Matt Gaetz seeks to ridicule allegations he paid underaged girl for sex
Embattled Republican congressman compares allegations of sexual misconduct involving a minor to congressional earmarks
theguardian.com
7:29 AM · May 16, 2021

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/16/matt-gaetz-sexual-misconduct-allegations-earmarks


The embattled Florida congressman Matt Gaetz has compared allegations of sexual misconduct involving a minor to earmarks, a congressional process by which spending measures beneficial to representatives’ districts are attached to legislation.

“I’m being falsely accused of exchanging money for naughty favors,” he said, speaking to Republicans in Ohio on Saturday.

Gaetz also said he wanted to be “Robin” to Jim Jordan’s “Batman”.

Jordan is an Ohio representative and hard-right leader in the House, like Gaetz a vocal ally of Donald Trump. He is also dogged by scandal, over his alleged failure to act on sexual abuse by a team doctor when Jordan was a wrestling coach at Ohio state. Jordan denies wrongdoing.

Gaetz is reportedly being investigated for alleged sex trafficking involving an underaged woman, other alleged payments for sex and drug use, and possible influence trading with representatives from the medical marijuana industry.

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[11 Bravo]

1. Right, Matty. And John Wayne Gacy was prosecuted for impersonating a clown.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Meanwhile, a man in Mississippi spends life in prison for possession.

Mississippi Court Upholds Life Sentence Of Black Man Arrested For Marijuana Possession

Dorian Geiger
Yahoo.com, Fri, May 14, 2021

A Mississippi man sentenced to life in prison for marijuana possession had his appeal struck down in court this week.

Allen Russell, 38, will spend life behind bars after a Mississippi Court of Appeals judges upheld his 2019 conviction on Tuesday, according to court documents obtained by Oxygen.com.

On Nov. 29, 2017, Russell was arrested by Hattiesburg police officers. Authorities confiscated “five bags of a green leafy substance that appeared to be marijuana,” court filings state. In total, nearly 44 grams of cannabis were seized from Russell’s apartment.

He was sentenced to life in prison in Forrest County without the possibility of parole due to past convictions. Under Mississippi law, individuals can be sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole after they’ve served at least one year in prison on two separate felony charges. One of those charges, however, is required to have been a violent offense.

In 2004, Russell pled guilty to two separate charges of burglary of a dwelling. Burglary constitutes a violent offense in Mississippi.

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mississippi-court-upholds-life-sentence-151800695.html

[Irish_Dem]

3. Right. And George Floyd was tortured and brutally murdered for maybe passing a $20 counterfeit bill.

[LakeArenal]

4. Exactly. I say free all non-violent pot offenders.

To make space for the insurrectionists.

[LakeArenal]

5. Illegal favors. Prurient favors is more like it.

[LiberatedUSA]

6. He really does look like straight out of central casting.

It is also interesting that Trump only picks and likes people based off of if they would be cast in a movie for the role they want. Shows you how he views the world.

I am pretty sure Gaetz was the frat prep jackass in every highschool and college comedy in the 80s and 90s.

[dalton99a]

7. Robin and Batman

[Botany]

11. That picture make my skin crawl. It has a Ted Bundy meets Hannibal Lector vibe.

[Bristlecone]

13. Matt Gaetz is 5' 7"

And TOWERS over Gym Jordan. Gym doesn’t wear a jacket because he’d have order it from OshKosh B’Gosh


*typo

[GeoWilliam750]

14. Surely this is photoshopped......

No one could be this awful, one would think.

[-misanthroptimist]

8. Child molesting slime ball.

And he still wants to play the victim. There may be lower forms of human being, but I'm not very interested in finding out. Gaetz is low enough to induce vomiting. No need to go any further.

[Snarkoleptic]

9. Not sure a judge will be pleased with Qaetz

excusing himself of the current raft of allegations as "...exchanging money for naughty favors"

[multigraincracker]

10. If you can't afford a dinner and a movie, get a free bee

from Jacketoff Jordan.

[Iggo]

12. You're being righteously accused of fucking children, Matt.

Matt Gaetz fucks children, in case that wasn't clear.