Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican who briefly stood to become President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be attorney general, was found by congressional ethics investigators to have paid numerous women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex, and to have purchased and used illegal drugs, including from his Capitol Hill office, according to a final draft of a comprehensive investigative report obtained by CBS News.

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    Bummer that voters will forget about this by the time the mid-terms roll around. The Republicans fought tooth and nail to keep this under wraps in full knowledge that Gaetz was participating in the rape of minors.

    (The drug use I couldn’t care less about, and I’d argue that no one should.)

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      I wouldn’t care about the drug use either except that 1) it’s illegal 2) it’s an ethics violation 3) he was going to be attorney general.

      If Rapey McHairdo had a (D) after their name they would be in jail

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          I am not disagreeing about the drugs. My point was their legality. If I am sworn to uphold a set a laws and I do not, then I am a hypocrite. If I swear to abide by a code of ethics and I do not, then I am a hypocrite.

          I believe that drugs should be legal and health care should be free.

          I also believe that Matt Gaetz is a rapist piece of shit.

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            Thank you. I understand your meaning.

            I don’t hold the law sacrosanct when it’s observably stupid and oppressive.

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      I don’t care about the drug use either, but I absolutely care that he supplied drugs to children. That shit harms development and makes consent, which is already pretty tepid with a 17 year old, an ethical nightmare. Not that he cares about ethics…

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      Normally, yes the drug thing shouldn’t be something we care about too much. But I’m pretty sure the drug use is a very valid thing to care about, especially with the allegation that he was giving drugs to minors, and this: “one woman told the committee the use of drugs at the parties and events they attended may have “impair[ed their] ability to really know what was going on or fully consent.””

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        I think it’s pretty clear we’re referring to consenting adults using drugs recreationally from the context of this discussion.

        No reasonable person thinks it’s right to drug a teenager and rape them.

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    Paying under age people for sex is crime in every state and I think federal too

    But nothing will be done now

    Biden didn’t do anything either mind you!

    But when a parasite got wacked in NYC, they found some guy within a week and charges are already filed

    Justice lol

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    More crimes they can sweep under the rug!

    Edit: I have to wonder if they’re just gloating now, since there’s never any punishment. Are they like “look at all these crimes we committed that you can’t do anything about!”?