• takeda@lemmy.world
    26·
    3 days ago

    The craziest thing is that this didn’t come out when vetting the candidate for AG, he is using AG position to escape this investigation.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      22·
      3 days ago

      This was all public knowledge, the DOJ just dropped the charges instead of prosecuting him because Merrick Garland is a useless piece of shit.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    3 days ago

    Besides the child-fucking, I thought prostitution was illegal? Or does that not matter for the elitists like Gaetz?

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      22 hours ago

      gotta persecute trans people and librarians to keep the children safe.

      and they elect and protect this kid fucker.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        Yes, fair point. That is an important distinction. They whipped up nonsense about Hillary trafficking kids from the basement of a basement-less pizza parlor based on absolutely nothing, and created an entire movement over that nonsense. Normal Americans point and laugh at such absurdity, but many of the deplorables STILL fervently believe in qanon insanity.

        Meanwhile, Gaetz is credibly accused of ACTUALLY doing it, and…crickets.

          • Cort@lemmy.world
            3·
            2 days ago

            Hmmm maybe we should do a recount of the 2024 election what with all the accusations of fraud coming from the right.

            • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
              1·
              2 days ago

              I said the same damn thing. A few hours into the 5th, and Trump was over there yelling VOTER FRAUD! VOTER FRAUD! and then absolutely fucking nothing. Haven’t heard a peep about it since. Funny how it’s election fraud when he loses, but perfectly fine and normal when he wins. Hmmmm…

    • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
      14·
      3 days ago

      At first I was “yes it is fine, so he hired a prostitute” then:

      At least one of the girls was below the age of consent

      Ah. Gotcha.

      • RunningInRVA@lemmy.world
        7·
        3 days ago

        Ya I was being sarcastic. There’s nothing fine about anything in this new administration but here we are and so I’m just gonna check the fuck out. America is full of TikTok and Facebook dumbasses

        • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
          2·
          3 days ago

          Oh I totally got the sarcasm!

          I have considerable sympathy for the American people and pity for the ones who think they want this. Unfortunately for my country we tend to import quite a lot of American culture and seeing what’s coming is worrisome.

  • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 days ago

    It’s too late at night for me right now, but did Gaetz ever get on Trump’s bad side?

    Is it possible he’s using Gaetz to test the waters of his nominees, or is he using the nomination to humiliate Gaetz? Has Trump responded to the scandal?

    It seems odd that Trump would purposely trigger infighting before he took office.