Thursday, 5 December 2024

Getting to the Bottom of Matt Gaetz’s Nomination and Withdrawal

 John Cleer

It appears that this is as close as we’ll get to the real Matt Gaetz story: his acquaintance, the former tax collector Joel Greenberg, was caught abusing his office to make fake IDs and concealed weapons permits, which led to the discovery of numerous crimes committed by Greenberg in office, financed with money he embezzled and revolving around prostitution and, apparently, trafficking minors to public figures.  Greenberg told Barr’s DOJ he could implicate Gaetz in exchange for leniency, and the present investigation into Gaetz was opened.

Gaetz’s father Don was then approached by “former” DOJ attorneys and told they could make his problems go away if he gave $25 million to fund the rescue of American hostage Bob Levinson from Iran.  Bob Kent would lead the rescue mission, and the payment would appear to be for a service, rather than a bribe to prosecutors......Looking closer at the $25-million extortion, we can see more or less what they tried to do.  They set Matt up, apparently failed to acquire kompromat, and then (I think) made up stories of what would have happened if it had worked based on their experience with other public figures.  ....Greenberg would get a reduced sentence, and the Deep State would be able to leverage Matt any time they wanted, because then he’d be guilty of bribery on top of the underlying charges with the 17-year-old, and paying the bribe would evidence his guilt on those charges.

So it was never about the money; it was about controlling Congress, and the $25 million was a down payment, after which Matt Gaetz would pay them with his votes.  .....The DOJ eventually dropped its charges on Matt, but Congress under Kevin McCarthy revived them, and that’s where we are.  It’s the word of a congressman versus the word of prostitutes, they’re propped up by Gaetz’s known enemies in Congress, and it’s as clear as day that those congressmen are corrupt."

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