{"id":354356,"date":"2021-03-30T23:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T03:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=354356"},"modified":"2021-03-30T23:00:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T03:00:52","slug":"breaking-ex-doj-official-on-gaetzs-allegations-distracting-from-apparent-imminent-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-ex-doj-official-on-gaetzs-allegations-distracting-from-apparent-imminent-indictment\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Ex-DOJ Official On Gaetz\u2019s Allegations: Distracting From Apparent Imminent Indictment"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fbreaking-ex-doj-official-on-gaetzs-allegations-distracting-from-apparent-imminent-indictment%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=354356&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4689.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"e12o35pe0 css-1wr5klf\" readability=\"30.738175675676\">\n<p>The former DOJ official that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) accused on Tuesday night of allegedly trying to extort money from his family responded to Gaetz\u2019s allegations by saying that Gaetz\u2019s allegations were false and an apparent attempt to distract from upcoming legal issues.<\/p>\n<p>David McGee, a former federal prosecutor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/rep-matt-gaetz-under-investigation-for-alleged-sexual-relationship-with-17-year-old-girl-report?ref=scroll\">told<\/a> The Daily Beast that Gaetz\u2019s allegations were \u201ccompletely, totally false,\u201d and that they were \u201ca blatant attempt to distract from the fact that Matt Gaetz is apparently about to be indicted for sex trafficking underage girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McGee was responding to accusations Gaetz made on Fox News\u2019s \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight\u201d with host Tucker Carlson. Gaetz said that McGee was involved in an \u201cextortion scheme\u201d that involved \u201cdemanding a meeting\u201d with Gaetz\u2019s father where $25 million was demanded \u201cin exchange for making horrible sex trafficking allegations against me go away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is a breaking news story, refresh the page for updates.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former DOJ official that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) accused on Tuesday night of allegedly trying to extort money from his family responded to Gaetz\u2019s allegations by saying that Gaetz\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311430,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4689.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"BREAKING: Ex-DOJ Official On Gaetz\u2019s Allegations: Distracting From Apparent Imminent Indictment","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4689.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"BREAKING: Ex-DOJ Official On Gaetz\u2019s Allegations: Distracting From Apparent Imminent Indictment","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354356","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}