{"id":1657665,"date":"2022-09-26T05:09:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1657665"},"modified":"2022-09-26T05:09:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:09:10","slug":"the-smearing-of-matt-gaetz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-smearing-of-matt-gaetz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smearing of Matt Gaetz"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-smearing-of-matt-gaetz%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1657665&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The New York Times reported last year, according to three sources &#8220;briefed on the matter,&#8221; that the Justice Department was investigating Trump darling Matt Gaetz for sex-trafficking a 17-year-old girl. Big if true.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pelosi-matt-gaetz-removed-frobm-judiciary-committee-if-allegations-true\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mused that<\/a>, if the allegations were true, Gaetz should be removed from the House Judiciary Committee. Late night polemicist Stephen Colbert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/stephen-colbert-nails-matt-gaetz-for-going-after-mike-pence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quipped<\/a> that the congressman was not allowed within 50 feet of elementary schools. And the Daily Beast last month ran a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/eight-sources-say-feds-are-not-done-with-matt-gaetz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">story<\/a> headlined: &#8220;Eight Sources Say Feds are Not Done with Matt Gaetz.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, the feds are very much done with Matt Gaetz. Whatever his other blind spots\u2014and there are many\u2014they appear not to involve the sex trafficking of underage women. Per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2022\/09\/23\/gaetz-no-charges-sex-trafficking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post<\/a>, a conviction of the congressman is unlikely due to &#8220;credibility questions with the two central witnesses,&#8221; so career Justice Department officials are recommending against a prosecution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is, or was, the thing about our system of justice. Everybody from model citizens to sleazy politicians is supposed to enjoy the due process of law. In Gaetz\u2019s case, that system was circumvented, undermined, and abused by what we can safely assume are politically motivated law enforcement officials who, working in concert with their allies in the mainstream media, succeeded in casting a cloud over the Florida lawmaker with lurid and appalling accusations they could not prove in a court of law.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Compare Gaetz\u2019s treatment by the Department of Justice with the tight-lipped handling of the ongoing probe into Hunter Biden, which we have to guess has turned up a salacious thing or two that hasn\u2019t made its way to the press.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And remember the contrast between them the next time President Joe Biden and his friends get on their high horse for the next lecture about the right wing\u2019s inappropriate attacks on the integrity of our law-enforcement officials. They\u2019ve been richly earned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reported last year, according to three sources &#8220;briefed on the matter,&#8221; that the Justice Department was investigating Trump darling Matt Gaetz for sex-trafficking a 17-year-old girl. Big if true.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe post The Smearing of Matt Gaetz appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":1657667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1657667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}