Summary

Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) is forcing a House vote this week to release the Ethics Committee’s report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who resigned from Congress after being named and later withdrawing as Trump’s pick for attorney general.

The Ethics Committee deadlocked on making the report public, which investigates allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use.

Casten argues that resigning should not shield members from accountability, citing past cases where reports on former lawmakers were released.

Gaetz denies wrongdoing and may pursue future political roles.

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    If he was found to have done nothing wrong, it would have been released immediately and all conservative media would have been parading it out saying “look, it really is a democratic witch hunt against conservatives!”

    The mere hesitancy to release it confirms what we’ve known all along: dude did some bad stuff, probably involving sex with minors.

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      probably involving sex with minors.

      Rape. It was rape. A minor cannot legally consent to have sex with a partner of near/equal age, let alone a man decades older than them.

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    Yeah let’s go ahead and release that. Though it’s still hard to believe people vote for him basically knowing it’s fact.

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      I think you mean relations with a young woman… fuck me I can’t even be facetious cause our media actually reports like that.

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    Can’t these “fascism is coming” mfs just read the report into the record? Have some balls! If you’re going tell voters to forget about things like Medicare For All and vote to save denocracy, at least make a show of putting up a fight.