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Matt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state laws (www.cbsnews.com)

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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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[–] FlashMobOfOne 24 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

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.)

[–] Donnywholovedbowling 5 points 2 weeks ago

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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