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BumRushDaShow

(143,472 posts)
Fri Sep 20, 2024, 08:52 AM Sep 20

Matt Gaetz Attended Drug-Fueled Sex Party With High School Junior: New Court Filing

Source: MEDIAite

Sep 20th, 2024, 7:49 am


Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) attended a 2017 drug-fuelled sex party that included underage girls, according to legal documents filed late-night Thursday and made available to the public. According to journalist Jose Pagliery at NOTUS, the documents cite sealed affidavits with testimony from three eyewitnesses.

The filing was reportedly written by defense lawyers seeking to recoup legal fees still due to them from a civil lawsuit brought by lobbyist and friend of Gaetz, Chris Dorworth, in 2023. Dorworth claimed he’d been unfairly dragged into the sex trafficking scandal.

The affidavits were filed to knock down Dorworth’s claims he wasn’t involved before he suddenly dropped the lawsuit this month.

In the documents the minor in question, who NOTUS reported was “a junior in high school at the time” is reported to have arrived at Dorworth’s Florida home, where the party allegedly took place. The three witnesses reportedly say Gaetz was at Dorworth’s house that night.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/news/matt-gaetz-attended-drug-fueled-sex-party-with-high-school-junior-new-court-filing/

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brewens

(15,359 posts)
1. I bought alcohol for minors before. When I was 19 and had 18-year-old buddies. Then I worked for a beer
Fri Sep 20, 2024, 09:04 AM
Sep 20

distributor and got kegs for guys that were pretty young. They wouldn't let underage guys in but I made it a point not to notice if I went to the kegger. There may have been a high school girl or two around.

Not like that perverted fuckstain. We had our local state rep convicted of rape a few years back. One thing that made that possible was gullible crap we call judges in this state. Aaron von Ehlinger is his name. After he got out of the military, he had a string of misdemeanors. One of them was supplying alcohol to minors. He told them he was a good little Jesus MAGAt. That should be a red flag. That allowed him to be appointed to an empty seat and a 19-year-old girl was raped.

https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/news/2022-07-27/aaron-von-ehlinger-idaho-guilty-rape-pardon-legislature

LeftInTX

(30,327 posts)
6. Yeah, but I hope this leaves a shitstain.
Fri Sep 20, 2024, 11:25 AM
Sep 20

OTOH Many of us have been at parties when things happen. (I was 16 and got into trouble because a 15 yo runaway neighbor was raped after we left.)
Cops told us we had a duty to report that the runaway was there. Everyone knew her and no one could stand her or her mother. She was drunk and telling everyone that was "Gonna have sex with everyone".
We left at 11 pm and the stuff happened after we left.

The guys that raped her didn't get in trouble, but we did because the girl told her mother that we were there.
I literally asked to cops: "Why aren't you questioning any of the guys?"
Their answer: "They are adults" (I wonder if the girl even told her mom the name of the guys or just complained about us because of our ongoing feud?)
No charges were filed on the guys.
We got juvie records for attending a party with alcohol.


It will depend how involved Matt was.

marble falls

(62,403 posts)
11. I lost track of a good friend who after he walked away before the daughter of big local car dealer ...
Fri Sep 20, 2024, 02:55 PM
Sep 20

... pulled a train in a neighbors garage. He was as clueless as I was at 14/15. He got arrested and sent to an "industrial school". About 60 years ago exactly.

Martin68

(24,654 posts)
4. It's pretty obvious that the MAGAts obsession with gays, transgender people, Marxists, and other boogeymen is just
Fri Sep 20, 2024, 10:53 AM
Sep 20

an attempt to divert attention from their own pedophilia, porn addiction, white supremacists, fascists, etc.

5. How fast can Florida drop the age of consent?
Fri Sep 20, 2024, 11:14 AM
Sep 20

That's one move I'd expect to try to make this go away. The female on the receiving end of Gaetz's attention was reportedly 17 at the time. It's currently 18 there, but it's 16 in much of the country, including in the states that share borders with Florida. It wouldn't make the drug issues go away, but puritanical America (as evidenced by reporting so far) seems much more outraged about the sex than about the drugs.

rubbersole

(8,640 posts)
7. desantis will drop the age to 10.
Fri Sep 20, 2024, 11:38 AM
Sep 20

Repubs are disgusting. The excuses they'll use to justify their perversions are more lame by the day. Gaetz needs to be in prison.

4lbs

(7,395 posts)
8. Breaking Nooze: Matt Gaetz attended a party where there were drugs and high teenagers.
Fri Sep 20, 2024, 11:40 AM
Sep 20

News at 11.

what else is new?

Response to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

FakeNoose

(35,905 posts)
12. Gaetz was born in 1982, so he was 34 or 35 when this "party" took place
Fri Sep 20, 2024, 07:24 PM
Sep 20

... and he was already a member of the US Congress, having been sworn in on January 3, 2017.

Throw the book at this guy - please!

IzzaNuDay

(653 posts)
13. I won't hold my breath....any pressure to make Gaetz resign
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 02:27 AM
Sep 22

I doubt it will happen with the GOP. Crude, lewd and possibly pedophile. Serve another term, sir!
In contrast, I saw Sen. Franken step down being pressured by his Senate colleagues for possible harassment charges.

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