Liberals and conservatives alike expressed shock and alarm upon listening to President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he intends to appoint former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to be his lawyer basic.
One influential right-winger, nevertheless, went a bit additional in his evaluation.
“Matt Gaetz is a sex trafficking drug addicted piece of shit,” wrote Ben Domenech in a Substack submit titled, “Matt Gaetz is a Vile Sex Pest and Any Senator Who Votes For Him Owns That.”
Domenech, a dyed-in-the-wool conservative, has gone from wunderkind blogger to an everyday Fox News visitor, as a co-founder of The Federalist and editor-at-large of The Spectator World. He has no scarcity of conservative credentials, making his feedback on Trump’s decide to run the Department of Justice notably noteworthy.
“He is abhorrent,” Domenech stated of Gaetz. “His eyes are permanently rimmed with the red rings of chemical boosters. In person, he smells like overexposed Axe Body Spray and stale Astroglide.”
He went on, repeating a narrative concerning the Florida congressman that Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) shared publicly final yr: “The fact that he boasted on the floor to multiple colleagues in the House of Representatives of his methods of crushing Viagra and high test Red Bull to maintain his erection through his orgiastic evenings is perhaps the least offensive of his many crimes against womanhood and Christian faith.”
If confirmed, Gaetz would oversee the exact same division that lately investigated him over intercourse trafficking allegations. While the Department of Justice in the end declined to cost Gaetz final yr, the House Ethics Committee’s members have been trying into the claims for years — or not less than till Gaetz’s abrupt resignation this week, at which era the panel’s energy to take action evaporated.
Lawmakers from each events have referred to as for the committee’s reportedly damaging report back to be launched anyway. The panel had initially anticipated to vote Friday on whether or not or to not make its findings public.
“Every Republican in Washington has an opinion about Matt Gaetz, and 99 percent of those opinions are ‘Keep Matt Gaetz away from my wife/daughter/friend and anyone I care about,’” Domenech wrote.
Gaetz’s issues ramped up when a former shut buddy, Joel Greenberg, took a plea deal admitting that he invited underage women to varied locations the place he would pay them for intercourse and use illicit medicine. Gaetz allegedly participated in a few of the events, although he has denied these accusations.
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Greenberg had additionally been cooperating with the House Ethics Committee, which stated in June that it had consulted greater than a dozen witnesses, issued 25 subpoenas and reviewed 1000’s of pages of paperwork for the probe.
Domenech stated Gaetz represented a form of check for Republicans in Congress.
″[I] they’ve a level of independence, any sort of free thought, aware of the truth that a presidency is 4 years however your profession is without end, they are going to reject this alternative so emphatically that it sends a quite simple, easy message: you will be an absolute dirtbag wannabe pimp pounding dick tablets and caffeine when you movie your ‘girlfriend’ twerking on the gram, otherwise you could be a Republican,” he stated.
Read the entire thing on Domenech’s Substack e-newsletter, The Transom.
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