Scathing Kevin McCarthy says he was ousted as Speaker because Gaetz ‘slept with a 17-year-old’

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1. Also Kevin: “I do hope, Mr. Leopard, that you find my face tasty.”

2. If Nestor is his kid, he also slept with a 12-year-old.

3. “Slept with a seventeen year old” makes it sound so “innocent”. He meant to say: “trafficked, drugged, and gang raped”.

4. Should have charged him instead of protecting him.

5. Maybe he’s baiting Gaetz to respond with a lawsuit?

6. Hey, Kevin… You could have refused to seat him

7. Are representatives mandated reporters? If not, they should be.

8. They always state the obvious *after* they leave their position of power. 

   No shit Kevin. 

9. This is a real revenge tour with cause

10. Birds of a feather…

11. If Gaetz doesn’t sue him for slander, I think that confirms this is true.

12. Starting to get sick of the word “Scathing” it’s the media’s new choice word of the month

13. “Paid via Venmo to traffic and rape a 17 year old”

14. The fact that McCarthty is only saying this now is just as damning for him and his fellow republicans as it is for Gaetz. These people protected Gaetz.

15. I cannot express how much I fucking love the utter implosion happening in the Republican Party. Please let this be the end of those dumb fucks so we can actually get shit done

16. And cause [Steve Bannon](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/04/us/politics/bannon-republicans-gaetz-mace.html) wanted it apparently?

17. Sex trafficking a minor. Fixed it for you.

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19. OP and the Independent are playing a bit of telephone with the headline. McCarthy didn’t directly accuse Gaetz of sleeping with a 17 year old. Rather, McCarthy alleged that the reason for him being ousted as speaker was his unwillingness to block an ethics complaint against Gaetz that accused Gaetz of sleeping with a 17 year old.

    >Because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old, an ethics complaint that started before I ever became Speaker…Did he do it or not? I don’t know.

20. My guess is that Gaetz wasn’t asleep.

21. How come they write ‘slept with a 17-year-old’ and not “statutory rape”?

22. Sounds like that ethics complaint must have had someone worried.

23. TBF he said Gaetz was accused of it, and he didn’t know if it actually happened. Just that he was ousted to stop the ethics probe.

    So it happened.

24. Funny how Republicans have their testicle bypass surgery reversed after balls no longer matter.

25. This is the GOP 🤡

26. What a wholesome political party

27. Maybe you should have done something about it, you fucking weasel.

28. Does he have knowledge of this crime, and the prostitution crime? Will there be an investigation and panel and hearing?

29. Did Kevin also forget he was a flaming pile of boot-licking garbage that would have said nothing about Gaetz being an absolute monster had it enabled him to keep the chair?

30. And you weren’t a very strong leader

31. My local dive bar kicked Gaetz out on sight just for being himself. It was easy and painless because the man is a known sex pest.

    The GOP has got to be more powerful than a bartender, so I’m sure it would be even easier for them.

32. Slept with a 17 year old means raped a minor

33. Whatever, Kev. Hasn’t bothered you until now-have a book coming out?

34. So Kevin McCarthy was aware of Matt Gates raping a minor and did nothing about it. Law and order protect the kids party btw.

35. Other words for “having sex with a 17 year old” include statutory rape and pedophilia

36. Reap what you sow Kevin

37. The fact that Kevin thinks that this would enhance his reputation tells you exactly how feckless and amoral he is.

38. Just another Conservative that was harboring degenerates who dirty the pool, then leave because there’s too much shit in the pool.

39. The Epstein clause

40. And like a good Republican, McCarthy enabled it.

41. So Kevin had knowledge of a crime and did report it? Is THAT what he is stating here?

42. That’s a libelous statement. I assume Beavis will sue. 

    This is sarcasm because the truth is a defense against libel. 

43. Raped* He paid for an underage girl to be brought to him for sex. That is rape.

44. And yet you ignored that little fact while in office. FUCK YOU MCCARTHY!

45. The word he is looking for is ‘rape’

46. Wow, it’s almost like these Republicans are all full of shit “family values” creeps who hide behind a cross around their neck and think they can get away with their deception. All while they accuse the Democrats of committing the very crimes that they themselves actually do. Hmmm

47. With SCOTUS seemingly interested in bringing back the Comstock Act, maybe Gaetz can find out what it means to be subject to an antiquated shit law like all the women in the country?

48. For those of you who don’t read the *The* *New Yorker*, please give this a look!

    Cassidy Hutchinson, a young White House aide, wrote in her memoir that he made repeated [passes](https://www.amazon.com/Enough-Cassidy-Hutchinson/dp/166802828X?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50) at her. On a trip to Camp David in 2020, while she was meeting with the House Minority Leader, [Kevin McCarthy](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/26/what-kevin-mccarthy-will-do-to-gain-power), Gaetz came to the door and asked her to “escort” him to his cabin, because he couldn’t find it himself. (Gaetz denies this.) Even after Hutchinson pointed out that all the cabins were on the same circular drive and clearly numbered, Gaetz persisted, until McCarthy shooed him away. “Get a life, Matt,” he said, closing the door.

    [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/26/matt-gaetz-profile](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/26/matt-gaetz-profile)