The House Ethics Committee found former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid a 17-year-old girl for sex in 2017, concluding that he violated Florida’s statutory rape law. This was one of 20 instances where he paid for sex or drugs, according to the final draft of the panel’s report, which was obtained …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took on murder suspect Luigi Mangione‘s extradition to New York City, a forthcoming House Ethics Committee report on former congressman Matt Gaetz, and felon George Santos‘ new podcast. Co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che also made their annual joke exchange–with topics getting personal. Jost, after …
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Disgraced former congressman Matt Gaetz is openly contemplating the possibility of running for Senate and trying to fill the Florida Senate seat that may be vacated by Sen. Marco Rubio, whom Trump has tapped to be his secretary of state. “Many have asked which perch I will be fighting from …
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After weeks of stalling, failed votes, and lame excuses, it seemed decided that the public would not be granted access to the House Ethics Committee’s final report on their investigation into embattled former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.). But in a surprise twist first reported Wednesday by CNN, the committee secretly …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update addressed the arrest of Luigi Mangione for the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, as well as scores of drones flying over parts of New Jersey and the East Coast over the last few weeks. Regarding Mangione, co-anchor Colin Jost joked: “This week, America …
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After Matt Gaetz left his seat in Congress to become Donald Trump’s attorney general only to pull his name from contention, speculation has abounded as to what the now-jobless Gaetz — who remains embodied in allegations of sexual abuse — will do with his life. Shout-out videos on Cameo apparently …
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The mother of Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, accused her son of mistreating and abusing women in an email released by the New York Times. Penelope Hegseth sent the email, which recounts his treatment of women, on April 30, 2018 while he was in the midst …
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True to character, Donald Trump is already flouting ethics laws and norms even before he takes office as president in 2025. The president-elect is accepting secret donations to fund his transition while refusing to sign ethics pledges or deliver an ethics plan mandated by the Presidential Transitions Act. The transition …
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Matt Gaetz seems to be enjoying the unemployed life. The former Florida representative resigned from Congress after Donald Trump nominated him to be attorney general, only to pull his name from consideration from the post roughly a week later after it became clear the Senate would not confirm him. It …
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Matt Gaetz may have withdrawn his name from consideration to become Donald Trump’s attorney general over sexual misconduct accusations — but alleged sexual abuser Pete Hegseth is still fighting to persuade Republican senators to confirm him to one of the most powerful positions in government. Hegseth was already facing an …
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