Embattled Republican leader Matt Gaetz who will become the attorney general if cleared by the Senate, which is unlikely, has now been accused of attending at least 10 sex parties between 2017 and 2018 when he was serving his first term in Congress. Gaetz was being probed for a sex offence for two years but just before the report was supposed to come out, he was named the attorney general following which he resigned and thus came outside the purview of the Congress investigation.
Lawyer Joel Leppard representing two women who already testified before the House Ethics Committee said his clients informed the probe panel that drugs were consumed at those sex parties. One of the women claimed to have seen Gaetz having sex with an underage friend up against a games table.
Leppard said he will make media appearances revealing details of those orgies so that the committee releases the report. “My clients have already been through this several times and they really, really do not want to testify again,” Leppard said. “Especially not on the floor of the Senate.”
“The American people deserve to know the truth about the person slated to become the top law enforcement officer in the country,” Leppard argued.
In 2020, Gaetz was accused of engaging in child sex trafficking and rape of a 17-year-old girl who he also paid for traveling across the country in order to have sex with him. The Justice Department opened an investigation into the allegations but did not press charges against him. The House Ethics Committee started an investigation into the allegations of underage sexual abuse, drug use, illicit financial practices, sharing sexually explicit images on the House floor.
Gaetz said the allegations were false and invented. “This false smear following a three-year criminal investigation should be viewed with great skepticism.”
Pete Hegseth says he was blackmailed into paying off rape accuser
Matt Gaetz is not the only one facing sex charges, Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, former Fox News host, Pete Hegseth paid an undisclosed amount to a woman who accused him of sexual assault. His lawyer said Hegseth was blackmailed during the Me Too movement while the encounter between him and the accuser was consensual. “Basically, he was totally innocent. He did nothing wrong here. We went through a mediation and ultimately settled for far less than what she wanted. And that should have completely buried it,” the lawyer said.
