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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Matt Gaetz freaking out after the House Ethics Committee Report was released. Mint Mobile: Get a 3-month premium wireless plan for just $15 a month when you go to https://mintmobile.com/MEIDASVisit https://meidastouch.com for more!Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts:MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcastLegal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-afMissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trialThe PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcastThe Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassanMea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohenThe Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-showBurn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boatsMajority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdownOn Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellmanUncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncoveredCoalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane
Duration
15m
Broadcast on
28 Dec 2024
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Welcome to Professor Mycellus's classroom. I want to discuss with you the absolute meltdown that Matt Gaetz is having right now after the bipartisan ethics committee in the House of Representative released the report finding substantial evidence that Matt Gaetz and statutory rape of a junior in high school that Matt Gaetz was involved in illicit drug use that Matt Gaetz accepted improper gifts while he held a public position that he abused his public position by expediting the passport processing for a woman he was having a relationship with and that he obstructed the congressional proceeding. Look, here in Professor Mycellus's classroom though, I want to hear from the accused Matt Gaetz and we'll see what he is rage posting and we'll contrast that to what the actual evidence was by the ethics committee. It's important to note up front that the ethics committee was made up of an equal number of Republicans and Democrats. This was actually Republicans as well as a group of Democrats who released this. It's people from Matt Gaetz's own party. If they try to say, "Oh, it's the deep state this or the deep state," these are Republicans by the way. The first thing Matt Gaetz posts is a message from Donald Trump after the report was released and Trump says, "Very unfair, Matt, very unfair." So, Trump's got Matt Gaetz's back right there. Matt Gaetz also posts, "Trump allies to Gaetz, don't back down. The former member of Congress has hinted at a possible run for elected office down the line. His allies urge him to fight." And so, look, Donald Trump was found liable for sexual assault. Donald Trump's on audio bragging about sexually assaulting women when he said, "Grab them by there." You know what? Because you're rich and they let you do it. Donald Trump talked about inspecting women naked at beauty pageants. Donald Trump hung out with Epstein. Epstein found girls at Mar-a-Lago. So, let's just be clear. If you're trying to use Trump as a character witness, Matt Gaetz and Professor Micellis's classroom, no bueno. What else is Matt Gaetz posting right here? So, he's posting deposition testimony. Let's look at the deposition testimony. Gaetz goes another one of the ethics witnesses who was an alleged, quote, "prostitute" claims she was indeed not when actually pressed in a deposition. This won't be in the ethics report because, of course, let's take a look at this one section of the deposition. Of course, Gaetz doesn't release the full deposition, but here's the question. Were you escorting, working? What were you doing? Objection, form, answer. I wouldn't consider it any of those. There was a lot of times where I did not get paid for being there. In that time, I thought a lot of these people were my friends. Question. Okay. All right. So, you wouldn't characterize anything you did in 2017 as sex work. Objection, as to the form, you can answer. And then the answer was no. But do you notice what she says right there? She says a lot of times I did not get paid, meaning there were other times that they were paid. I mean, the whole thing when you read the ethics report is that this Joel Greenberg would go to a website called Seeking Arrangements, where the very concept of the arrangements were that you would basically pay to have these encounters. So it wasn't spoken necessarily as a quid pro quo of this, but there would be payments made, not all the time payments made, but payments would be made with an expectation that in return, there would be sex for the men who were making payments. That's what was going on and it details it. And she goes, a lot of times, people weren't paying me, but that means a lot of times they also were in the other times. Matt Gates also post the following right here. If gifts are now prostitution, he's reposting this Natalie F. Danielsian. If gifts are now prostitution, then everyone in Congress is now a ho. Okay, Matt Gates also reports more testimony you won't see in the ethics report. This is clearly not prostitution under can any conceivable definition, which is why I was never charged with a crime question. You said before that you got $400 for Matt Gates for that answer. I did. All right, where you promised ahead of time or anything. No, we never discussed money. Okay, so Matt Gates paid someone money. And then there was sex in return. And what Matt Gates is arguing is because there was no express statement, I am paying you for sex. That therefore it wasn't prostitution. But that's not really what this is kind of all about. He's kind of having you look over there. Well, the issue is under Florida law, there's something called statutory rape and other states have the same law, a junior in high school. And if you are a man over the age of 24, it doesn't

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Matt Gaetz freaking out after the House Ethics Committee Report was released. Mint Mobile: Get a 3-month premium wireless plan for just $15 a month when you go to https://mintmobile.com/MEIDASVisit https://meidastouch.com for more!Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts:MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcastLegal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-afMissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trialThe PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcastThe Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassanMea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohenThe Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-showBurn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boatsMajority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdownOn Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellmanUncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncoveredCoalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane