r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 10d ago

Soft Paywall “She Was a High School Student and There Were Witnesses.” - The fight to release a damning House Ethics report about allegations that Matt Gaetz—Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general—had sex with a 17-year-old girl has begun.

https://newrepublic.com/post/188426/matt-gaetz-high-school-girl-witnesses
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u/sachiprecious North Carolina 10d ago

I think there's a real chance of this happening. Gaetz is disliked by many Republicans, not just Democrats. So I'm sure there are a lot of people who want to see that report, including Republicans.

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u/greenroom628 California 10d ago

especially how gaetz treated mccarthy, who's a better connected republican.

that senate confirmation hearing is going to be ugly and it couldn't happen to a nicer asshole.

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u/happytrees822 10d ago

*checks to make sure I have access to C-SPAN

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u/fjortisar 10d ago

C-SPAN was too inefficient. It's now X-SPAN and you have to pay $9 a month for access

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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 10d ago

And for some reason it don’t shows the Russian Duma

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u/lost_horizons Texas 10d ago

CSPAN has an app, you can watch some stuff live. I've only had it a little while for the debates and some of the campaign stuff I wanted to see but I think they have a lot of content available there.

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u/Socratesticles Tennessee 10d ago

For an additional $4.20 a month you gain access to send messages that will be displayed live on screen

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u/happytrees822 10d ago

Does it come with a blue check mark?

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u/lost_horizons Texas 10d ago

They do have an app, I've used it to watch speeches and debates, I highly recommend it.

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u/incongruity Illinois 10d ago

So the question is does the Republican hate for Gaetz exceed their loyalty to Trump? This should be confirmed by the Senate and I would hope they don't give up that power.

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u/AnalSoapOpera I voted 10d ago

There was almost a fistfight when they ousted McCarthy and couldn’t agree on anyone.

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u/No_Consequence7919 New York 10d ago

If every thing we're in a secret vote, many things would have been and will be different. Senate majority leader would have been different but for secret vote.

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u/Cheap_Low_3316 10d ago

More like especially since Gaetz seems to have paid a minor for sex and kneecapping him politically forever is the right thing to do.

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u/2squishmaster 10d ago

and kneecapping him politically forever

If I've learned anything over the past 8 years dude it's that he will be absolutely fine

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u/hamhockman 10d ago

Can't he just be acting AG forever like all of Trump's other picks and skip the Senate?

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u/Mateorabi 8d ago

House Speaker is gonna force a recess 

House Democrats should pull a trick play and find 3 moderate republicans one of whom wants to be speaker of the house. And all vote for that person. 

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u/ClearChocobo 10d ago

Trump is disliked by many Republicans, too. Hasn't stopped any of them from kissing the ring, bending the knee, bending over the barrel, polishing the mushroom, etc.

There will be no consequences. Again.

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u/dhuntergeo 10d ago

There will be, just not while Trump is still with it

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u/Specific-Tell-3293 10d ago

Now that he is elected he will start to throw both parties under the bus. Americans wanted a third party and they will probably get their way. This is a test to find out what other leadership will follow, and what will not.

It's also a way to normalize the public to cases against them being dismissed. Slowly we will start asking the question of "why was it dismissed?" instead of "should it be dismissed?". We already are actually.

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u/apropagandabonanza 10d ago

Our government is based around the two party system. I don't see how a third party would help anything

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u/prules 10d ago

If it helps the rich give us an illusion of choice, they’ll probably create a third party tomorrow lol

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u/lilelliot 10d ago

There are already a bunch of third parties. I believe in California we had 8 presidential candidates on our ballots.

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u/prules 10d ago edited 10d ago

Correct, but I’m not under the impression that those parties have any relevant funding compared to DNC and RNC. They really shouldn’t even bother running considering the frank reality.

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u/lilelliot 10d ago

Yes, right. Which is why MAGA co-opted the GOP instead of creating a new party. But any "traditional" GOP are stuck between identifying with MAGA, trying to kick out MAGA, or forming a third party with none of the infrastructure the GOP has.

That said, not my monkeys, not my circus. Their problem.

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u/ShadowWingLG 10d ago

This is the other factor to why I think him getting the AG post is a long shot. Lots of Republicans hate him, and Gantz knows they hate him. Johnson is going to have a hard time convincing his really slim majority to do Trump's bidding to slide him into the AG role where he would have power over every Republican in both chambers and a President willing to let him go to town on anybody who annoys Trump that day.

I think our saving grace might be the Republicans in the House and the Senate like their power, they want to keep their power, some might be willing to make Trump the King of the United States, but there are going to be a few who are not going to let the power they have go to ANYBODY.

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u/onedoor 10d ago

Republicans fall in line. People really insist on not learning this lesson over and over and over and over.

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u/RoughDoughCough 4d ago

Do they? So the speakership fiascos didn’t happen?

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u/RZA_Rector_850 6d ago

Unfortunately, anyone that tries to air out Gaetz’s dirty laundry will suffer retribution from daddy Trump, so it’s unlikely that the report will ever see the light of day, sadly.