A legislative aid to Matt Gaetz is a war criminal

[Art Haberland]

It baffles me why anybody would want this man anywhere near them, let along working as an Aid to a politician.

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/29/...-war-criminal/

[Hugh MacD]

Like minds...

[johnw]

It baffles me why anybody would want this man anywhere near them, let along working as an Aid to a politician.

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/29/...-war-criminal/

Remember, Gaetz is a critic of the American military for being too 'woke.' He thinks performative masculinity is the key to military greatness.

And what's less woke than shooting a guy in the head because he won't say what you want him to say?

[Chip-skiff]

Pardoned by Trump, who likes that sort of savagery (in others).

[dutchpp]

In Europe also known as the alleged pedophile, when you look at his Wiki page, which reads like a crime novel, this is one of the paragraphs;
Federal investigations into sex trafficking

In January 2020, the U.S. Secret Service reportedly received a tip that, in April 2018, Gaetz had accompanied Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg to a government office where Greenberg was producing fake IDs.^[229] Greenberg was indicted in August 2020 on an array of charges, including sex trafficking a 17-year-old girl in 2017 and creating fake IDs to facilitate sex trafficking.^[230][231] The investigation of Greenberg led federal officials to look into some of Gaetz's related activities.^[229] In late 2020, the Justice Department opened its investigation of Gaetz for allegedly sex trafficking the same 17-year-old girl in 2017 and whether he had violated federal sex trafficking laws by paying her to travel with him across state lines.^{[230][232][233]} As part of his plea bargain, Greenberg cooperated with the investigation of Gaetz and others.^[234][235]
On March 30, 2021, Axios reported that Gaetz was "seriously considering not seeking re-election and possibly leaving Congress early for a job at Newsmax".^[236] The same day, The New York Times reported the Justice Department's investigation of Gaetz.^[230] According to CNN, a person briefed on the matter said investigators also examined whether Gaetz used campaign money in his relationships with young women for travel and expenses and whether cash and drugs were involved.^[237] By April 2, the Justice Department was examining whether Gaetz asked women to recruit others for sex.^[238][239]
According to the 2021 reports, federal investigators were looking into Gaetz's September 2018 trip to the Bahamas.^[231] Gaetz was reportedly joined by marijuana entrepreneur and hand surgeon Jason Pirozzolo, who allegedly paid trip accommodations, traveling expenses, and escort services. Investigators were reportedly exploring whether the escorts were sexually trafficked for Gaetz and whether Gaetz accepted paid escorts in exchange for political access or legislative favors for Pirozzolo, who at the time chaired the board of the Medical Marijuana Physicians Association. Gaetz made two speeches for the organization while in Congress, and Pirozzolo gave two separate donations of $1,000 to Gaetz's campaign arm "Friends of Matt Gaetz", in March 2016 and May 2017.^[240] A spokeswoman for Gaetz denied the new allegations.^[241] A woman on the Bahamas trip—a Capitol Hill intern who did not work in Gaetz's office but who was dating Gaetz—reportedly agreed in May 2021 to cooperate with investigators, who believe she has information about Gaetz's financial transactions on the trip.^[242][243]
Investigators believe that Greenberg met women through a website for sex and introduced them to Gaetz, who also had sex with them.^[230] Evidence including mobile payment receipts reportedly suggesting Gaetz had illegally exchanged money for sex, such as May 2018 Venmo transaction records showing Gaetz sending $900 (with a memo referring to a woman) to Greenberg, who then relayed the money (with the memos "tuition" and "school") to three women, one of whom was 18.^[244] Joseph Ellicott, an associate of both Gaetz and Greenberg, pleaded guilty in January 2022 to two charges related to this investigation and is also cooperating with authorities.^[245]
Gaetz had argued in a November 2020 Fox News appearance that Trump "should pardon Michael Flynn [and] everyone from himself to his administration officials to Joe Exotic".^[246][247] In late 2020, Greenberg apparently attempted to secure a pardon from the Trump administration via a confession letter (first reported by The Daily Beast in April 2021), writing that he and Gaetz had had sex with a 17-year-old girl they believed was 19, and that payments had been made on behalf of Gaetz to her and other women in exchange for sex.^[248] Greenberg attempted to bribe Roger Stone with a $250,000 Bitcoinpayment to secure a presidential pardon, texting Stone, "They know [Gaetz] paid me to pay the girls and that he and I both had sex with the girl who was underage."^[248] By the end of the Trump administration, Greenberg was under indictment, investigators had been questioning some Gaetz associates, and federal agents had seized the phone of one of Gaetz's former girlfriends.^[249] Gaetz's phone was also seized, and he changed his phone number in late December.<sup>[231]

I'm sure the young voters would know what to do with him ( see the "Reducing voting age" thread)</sup>