Stephan: MAGAt Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is openly advocating the murder of her Democratic colleagues, MAGAT Representative Matt Gaetz is under investigation for having sex with underage girls, and I could go on and on. It raises the question: Does the Republican Party seek out and promote for party office grifters, the mentally deranged, pedophiles, gun nuts, and the incompetent and stupid? The answer I think is yes. And why is this happening?
I believe because behind the MAGAts, funding them, owning them, are a small group of the uber-rich who, because of Citizens United, have basically purchased a political party, and are now seeking to dismantle democracy so that an authoritarian form of government can emerge that will serve their interests. They don't want smart ethical people who would just cause them problems.
Investigators began seeking evidence and testimony in late 2020 from a former girlfriend of Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida. Credit: Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times
WASHINGTON — A former girlfriend of Representative Matt Gaetz testified on Wednesday before a federal grand jury in Orlando scrutinizing whether he broke sex trafficking laws, according to two people briefed on the case.
The development suggests that the Justice Department may have secured a key witness in its inquiry, which is seeking to determine whether Mr. Gaetz provided goods or payments to a 17-year-old girl in exchange for sex. Mr. Gaetz, a Republican, has represented a district in western Florida since 2017.
The witness, who testified in Federal District Court, dated Mr. Gaetz for about two years, beginning in 2017, and she remained in contact with him after their relationship ended, according to a person who knew the couple at the time.
NBC News and CNN earlier reported that Mr. Gaetz’s former girlfriend was testifying before a federal grand jury.
lauren raine
on Friday, January 14, 2022 at 5:43 am
I am not sure that the Republican party seeks out these people so much as they reflect the people who, sadly, are electing them. Without an educated base, democracies cannot effectively function, and I think the dumbing down of the american people has a great deal to do with the unprecedented election of Trump and these incompetents. Putin was elected by a brief Russian democracy, which he promptly put an end to. So was Hitler.
I am not sure that the Republican party seeks out these people so much as they reflect the people who, sadly, are electing them. Without an educated base, democracies cannot effectively function, and I think the dumbing down of the american people has a great deal to do with the unprecedented election of Trump and these incompetents. Putin was elected by a brief Russian democracy, which he promptly put an end to. So was Hitler.