• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    Gaetz, the sex-scandal-plagued Republican who recently dropped out as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, violated several state laws relating to sexual misconduct while in office, according to CBS News, which obtained a final draft of the report.

    The investigators reportedly found “substantial evidence” that Gaetz violated House rules and other standards of conduct “prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress.”

    Like can’t we just say he’s a fucking criminal rapist?

    The amount of waffling language is fucking infuriating. He didn’t just violate the law, he said “fuck the law” and broke it willingly.

    Any regular citizen would have had their ass in prison over statutory rape and prostitution fucking years ago. This entire shitshow is corrupt from top to bottom. When I was a kid, this is the kind of shit they said happened in lawless countries.

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      Well, they cannot call donvict that without having to pay donvict off, so I guess they’ll be just as milquetoast here. But even before the donvict shakedown, they’ve always been this “objective” about qon criminals. I think one of the peak examples of this was when Ronnie Raygun died and seeing the “liberal media” treatment of that…hooboy.

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      The feds dropped the investigation into statutory rape because the girl wouldn’t testify and opened an OF site. Also, his buddy Joel didn’t flip when he landed in prison.

      We now they’re BOTH talking. I see no legal reason Florida can’t prosecute for statutory rape as the age of consent in Florida is 18. I don’t think double jeopardy applies here?

      EDIT: Reading the report now. Looks like way more he can be nailed with! WAY more!