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Click here to read the full articleThis is the only source for this sto­ry. How­ev­er, it makes sense that Fox News insid­ers are com­mu­ni­cat­ing with lib­er­al net­works to attack Matt Gaetz. Fox News is full lib­er­al and run by the Mur­doch sons who are flam­ing pro­gres­sive’s. They are anti-wall, pro ille­gal- immi­gra­tion and hate Trump. They run semi-con­ser­v­a­tive news just for the mon­ey because there is a void there. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R‑FL) has been infor­mal­ly black­list­ed by Fox News after try­ing to loop host Tuck­er Carl­son into his sex traf­fick­ing scan­dal dur­ing an appear­ance last month.The Flori­da Repub­li­can angered...

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz hired a legal team to fight the "unfounded allegations" against him as the Justice Department investigates sex trafficking allegations involving underage girls. "Matt has always been a fighter," a spokesperson for Gaetz said in a statement to Fox News Friday. "A fighter for his constituents, a fighter for the country, and a fighter for the Constitution," the spokesperson continued. "He’s going to fight back against the unfounded allegations against him." The spokesperson added that Gaetz’s legal team, led by Marc Mukasey and Isabelle Kishner, "will take the fight to those trying to smear his name with...

"The View" co-host Meghan McCain called on Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to resign following allegations that he had sex with an underage girl and compared his scandal to one involving a Democratic member of Congress and a Chinese spy. "Look, there have always been weird rumors about Matt Gaetz on Capitol Hill," McCain said on "The View" on Monday. "I'm not surprised by this. I'm actually not ... I will say, he should certainly resign. The same way I think [New York Gov. Andrew] Cuomo should resign."

Donald Trump and his allies have stayed quiet on Matt Gaetz Their silence is deafening as Gaetz struggles to save his political career Gaetz was one of Trump's top allies on Capitol Hill Trump, who has not been shy about blasting out statements on an array of matters, has yet to send one out on Gaetz Anyone that has ever spent 10 minutes with the guy would realize he's an unserious person,' one former Trump campaign aide told Politico of Gaetz

The man accused of trying to extort $25 million from Rep. Matt Gaetz’s family admitted Monday that he asked the congressman’s dad for cash — but denied that it was a shakedown. Bob Kent, an ex-Air Force intelligence officer, confirmed to Sirius Radio host Michael Smerconish that he approached the Florida Republican’s dad, Don Gaetz, for money last month. The funds, Kent said, were to pay for an effort to free Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran in 2007, and is believed to be dead. Kent claimed he has video evidence that Levinson is still alive...

Luke Ball is exiting his position as communications director for Rep. Matt Gaetz as the Justice Department inquiry into Gaetz’s possible connections to sex trafficking continues. Ball started out in Gaetz’s office as an intern in 2017, and in addition to serving as his press secretary, was deputy campaign manager in the representative’s 2018 re-election campaign and deputy digital director for Ron DeSantis for Governor, according to Ball’s LinkedIn profile. He is also the founder of Rightlife Media, a video production and website design company. The New York Post said that Ball had scrubbed any mentions of Gaetz, from his...

Three screenshots of texts between Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, and Jake Novak, media director of the Israeli consulate in New York City were shared with TAC. The messages were authenticated by one of the parties to them. In the first screenshot, Novak messaged Adams last Saturday to tell him about the investigation into Gaetz. The New York Times story on the Gaetz investigation was not published until Tuesday. In the second, Novak appears to represent himself as deeply involved in the efforts to free Bob Levinson from Iran, telling Adams “this is screwing up my efforts to free Bob...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), an ally of former President Trump, is reportedly considering retiring from Congress to take a job with Newsmax, according to an Axios report. Gaetz, who was first elected to the House in 2016, the same year Trump won the presidency, has told allies that he is thinking about ending his congressional career in its third term. He's started early conversations with Newsmax about joining the conservative network, according to Axios. Newsmax saw its ratings shoot up in the weeks following Trump's loss in the 2020 presidential election and is seeking to cast itself as an alternative...

Over the past several weeks my family and I have been victims of an organized criminal extortion involving a former DOJ official seeking $25 million while threatening to smear my name.We have been cooperating with federal authorities in this matter...— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) March 30, 2021...and my father has even been wearing a wire at the FBI’s direction to catch these criminals. The planted leak to the FBI tonight was intended to thwart that investigation.No part of the allegations against me are true, and the people pushing these lies are targets...— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) March 30, 2021...of the ongoing extortion...

A defiant Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) says he has no plans to resign from Congress amid a federal investigation into whether he paid women — and a 17-year-old girl — for sexual favors. Yet behind the scenes, a growing number of Gaetz’s Republican colleagues are predicting his days on Capitol Hill are growing short. “In reality, yes, he won’t last long,” one member told The Hill on Friday. The forecasts seem to be based on some combination of political pragmatism and wishful thinking. Gaetz, who stands among the fiercest defenders of former President Trump, is no stranger to controversy, but...

Rep Matt Gaetz is expected to be indicted within the next few weeks as former Florida official and friend Joel Greenberg is believed to have turned on the congressman in the sex trafficking investigation against him, a source close to the probe tells DailyMail.com. Greenberg, who was elected Seminole County Tax Collector in 2016, is currently in jail awaiting trial after being slapped with a string of charges last year including sex trafficking a minor between the age of 14 and 17. Earlier this week Gaetz was revealed to be under investigation for allegedly engaging in a sexual relationship with...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) allegedly showed fellow lawmakers on the House floor photos and videos of naked women he said he had sex with, according to a new report from CNN. The new report is not related to the DOJ investigation. It seems Gaetz’s colleagues in the House are using the opportunity of the scandal to leak details about his alleged behavior as a congressman. The sources, including two people directly shown the material, said Gaetz displayed the images of women on his phone and talked about having sex with them. One of the videos showed a naked woman with...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Rep. Matt Gaetz’s father, Don, a former Florida Senate president, said he is working with the FBI, including wearing a wire on more than one occasion as part of an investigation into an alleged extortion plot that the pair said was organized by former federal prosecutor David McGee. “The FBI asked me to try and get that information for Matt and an indication we would transfer money to Mr. David McGee,” Don Gaetz said in an interview late Tuesday, without specifying what information he was referring to. McGee, who is now in private practice with a Pensacola,...

I predicted this. I just heard on the Radio, GOP Leader McCarthy says he’s ready to Oust Gaetz and remove him from Committee’s, if allegations are True. Wow, That didn’t take long. (Married) Swalwell’s Mistress and Chinese Spy talked him into running for President - and he’s on the Intelligence Committee.

Congressman Matt Gaetz claimed that, as part of an FBI sting, his father was sup­posed to con­tact this for­mer DOJ employ­ee on Wednes­day to arrange a down­pay­ment of $4.5 mil­lion on the $25 mil­lion extor­tion. The U.S. Attorney’s Offices for North­ern and Cen­tral Flori­da declined to comment.“I don’t think it’s a coin­ci­dence that tonight some­how The New York Times is leak­ing this infor­ma­tion, smear­ing me and ruin­ing the inves­ti­ga­tion that would like­ly result in a one of the for­mer col­leagues of the cur­rent DOJ being brought to jus­tice,” Gaetz said.Gaetz told Fox that the for­mer DOJ employ­ee going after him...

Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida and a close ally of former President Donald J. Trump, is being investigated by the Justice Department over whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him, according to three people briefed on the matter. Investigators are examining whether Mr. Gaetz violated federal sex trafficking laws, the people said. A variety of federal statutes make it illegal to induce someone under 18 to travel over state lines to engage in sex in exchange for money or something of value. The Justice Department regularly prosecutes such cases,...

David McGee, an attorney with Beggs & Lane, is the man the Florida Republican named during an appearance Tuesday evening on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show in which he responded to reports that he is under federal investigation over a former relationship. McGee served for six years as the first assistant at the U.S. Attorney’s Office and for seven years as the lead attorney for a Justice Department's Organized Crime Task Force, according to his biography on the website of his law firm, which is based in Pensacola, Florida. (Cut) The New York Times reported Gaetz, 38, is being looked...

Hours after the New York Times broke a story on the Justice Department investigating sex trafficking allegations against Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fl.), Gaetz appeared on Fox News’ Tucker to refute the claims.Asked about the story by Tucker Carlos, Gaetz says “It is a horrible allegation, and it is a lie.”Gaetz reiterated claims made on Twitter and elsewhere that the allegations stem from a former Justice Department official who was attempting to blackmail him. That official, who Gaetz named as “David McGee,” contacted Gaetz’s father, according to the Republican House member.Gaetz says his family went to the local FBI in Florida,...

"I have not had a relationship with a 17-year-old. That is totally false," Gaetz said. Rep. Matt Gaetz says that the Justice Department has informed his lawyers that he is the subject of an investigation. According to Axios, the Florida Republican said that his lawyers were informed that "I was not a target but a subject of an investigation regarding sexual conduct with women." "I only know that it has to do with women," Gaetz said, according to the New York Times. "I have a suspicion that someone is trying to recategorize my generosity to ex-girlfriends as something more untoward."...

Matt Gaetz responds to sex trafficking allegations on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight'