Court Records Place Matt Gaetz At Long-Rumored Sex Party
As the Week Of Republicans Behaving Badly draws to an end, we have more on the long-rumored Matt Gaetz sex party.
The DoJ previously investigated Gaetz and eventually declined to file criminal charges. So unless there's something new here, I won't do the schadenfreude dance just yet. A caveat: His father, prominent Florida politician and multimillionaire Don Gaetz, has been known to bail out Matty's for various bad behaviors. And this being Florida, we can never rule out that possibility. Perhaps we'll learn more! Via NOTUS.org:
Rep. Matt Gaetz attended a drug-fueled sex party in 2017 with the 17-year-old girl at the center of the alleged sex trafficking scandal, according to legal documents filed to a Florida federal court shortly before midnight Thursday, which cite sealed affidavits from three eyewitness testimonies.
The minor, who was a junior in high school at the time, arrived in her mother’s car for a July 15, 2017, party at the Florida home of Chris Dorworth, a lobbyist and friend of Gaetz’s, according to a court filing written by defense attorneys who interviewed witnesses as part of an ongoing civil lawsuit Dorworth brought in 2023.