Justice Department investigating Matt Gaetz as part of broader trafficking probe into another Florid

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  1. Smedley

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    Justice Department investigating Matt Gaetz as part of broader trafficking probe into another Florida politician - CNNPolitics

    Well well, here we are.
    WTF?
    Is this guy "innocent" or what?
    Is 17 years old considered the "age of consent" in the Florida panhandle or not?
     
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    I am able to access the story without a "paywall".

    What seems to be your problem?
     
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    Sigh... The New York Times article is behind a paywall.. CNN uses it as the basis of its own article.. Do you understand now?

    Can you quote from either article WHO is the source behind these allegation?

    In the case of Cuomo for example people came forward... Do you see the difference?
     
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    So you admit that the CNN link is not behind a paywall.
    Thank you for your capitulation.
    Matt Gaenz is the source behind the allegations.
     
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    “three people briefed on the matter... senior Justice Department officials in Washington — including some appointed by Mr. Trump — were notified of the investigation”

    Gaetz confirmed this by saying “they were told he was the subject, not the target, of an investigation. “I only know that it has to do with women,” Mr. Gaetz said. “I have a suspicion that someone is trying to recategorize my generosity to ex-girlfriends as something more untoward.””
     
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    Thank you!
     
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    Whatever
     
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    Thanks for adding so much to the conversation, as always. CNN isn’t even the source however.
     
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    In fact, CNN is a notorious Fake News outlet.

    GREENWALD, CNN Is Just The Latest News Outlet To Prove Deliberate Lying Is Not An Impediment to Employment, Former Trump DHS official, now CNN analyst, Miles Taylor got caught blatantly lying on CNN's airwaves to host Anderson Cooper, but The Most Trusted Name In News™ doesn't mind at all., By Glenn Greenwald, By Glenn Greenwald, 11/2/20.
    https://greenwald.substack.com/p/cnn-is-just-the-latest-news-outlet

    CNN is not a credible source of information.
     
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    CNN is the source cited, and CNN is not a credible source.
    Everything CNN reports should be presumed to be Fake News.
     
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    Matt Gaetz says he's under federal investigation for sexual misconduct - Axios
     
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    False. CNN is the article cited. The source is where the information originated from which is The New York Times.

    It must be interesting living in a world where any information you don’t like is simply labeled as “fake news”.
     
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    In fact, Gaetz has stated publicly that the DOJ investigation is into an extortion scheme he reported to the FBI - not underaged sex.

    The CNN/NYT reports should be considered Fake News because Gaetz, like every other American citizen, is far more credible than the MSM.

    Never believe anything from the MSM without independent proof of accuracy.
    Remember: "Russia! Russia! Russia!", and don't be fooled again.
     
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    Well other than the fact that other news outlets picked it up and Gaetz was interviewed by Carlson on Fox, you might have a point. :)
     
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    Russian interference was proven and Russian collusion was not disproven.

    How many people went to jail, had their assets seized, pled guilty? For it to be “fake news” it had some very real ramifications.

    Like I said, it must be an interesting world.
     
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    Gaetz, the guy who said facial recognition software proved ANTIFA stormed the capitol? Then the company came out and said he was lying and confirmed a bunch of white nationalists were provoking the riot? Yea, Gaetz exudes credibility doesn't he.
     
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    CNN is the source for everything it reports. Surely you know that. CNN may rely on other sources, but when they report they are the source of information.

    But if your point is that the NYT is no more reliable than CNN then you are right.

    The NYT sacrificed it's last scaps of credibility when it fired its copy editors.
    Even the NYT's own Opinion Editor/writer had to finally blew the whistle of the Fake News NYT.

    "“Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times,” Weiss wrote. “But Twitter has become its ultimate editor. As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions. I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.”
    POYNYTER.ORG, Here is Weiss’ resignation letter in full, By Tom Jones, July 14, 2020.
    https://www.poynter.org/business-wo...bari-weiss-new-york-times-resignation-letter/
     
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    Let's see a quote from the Carlson interview where Gaetz states that the FBI investigation is into his misconduct?
     
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    Here is a snippet from the AP.

    Gaetz said that the allegations were part of an extortion plot by a former Justice Department official.

    “Over the past several weeks my family and I have been victims of an organized criminal extortion involving a former DOJ official seeking $25 million while threatening to smear my name,” Gaetz said in a statement.

    Gaetz said his family has been cooperating with the FBI and said his father was wearing a recording device, at the FBI’s direction, “to catch these criminals.” He demanded the Justice Department release the recordings.

    “No part of the allegations against me are true, and the people pushing these lies are targets of the ongoing extortion investigation,” he said.
     
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