Will many in government face justice? Easy answer ... no ... not to mention rich people. we already know Clinton and Gates were at Epstein island will they face prosecution? nope .. complete double standard. Elite vs the citizens.
@ neither party is white as snow, however, each party has a responsibility to uphold ethics and behavioral standards within the party members (as well as across the aisle). The fact he was protected and not prosecuted for alleged felony crimes including sex with a minor and trafficking needs to be investigated. This is negligent and a cover up.
@@cw5948that’s what you took from this? You would. No one is saying the Dems are the party or virtue, but the hypocrisy is laughable. Maybe, that’s why it when over your little head.
Just remember that Trump and his team ABSOLUTELY would have known about a lot of, if not all of, the stuff Gaetz did. And they almost ended up appointing him AG.
I've seen Trump fans say that Trump ousted Gaetz on purpose by trying to appoint him as AG, knowing he'd never get confirmed. They claim Trump wanted to get rid of a predator. The level of cope is astronomical.
The Rep in the beginning of the video even explicitly said that he was showing nudes on the Congress floor, and then said he'd still vote for him. Genuinely, morals are nothing to Republicans, they'll lip service the Christian base, but will not actually act under the principles they push.
One sad part about seeing supervillain takeover is that the real villains aren't the supergeniuses that we see in movies. They just send illegal payments on public Venmo accounts and whine on TV... And what's worse is that our justice system still can't keep up with these plonkers
UA-cam makes videos like this demonetized because its "unsafe for advertisers" yet the major cable networks get major advertising dollars everyday covering the same crap!
Yup. It's called BE RICH. 💪😎✌️ If you're wealthy, then yer healthy. If not... well, flack off! 😂 Chump, 3lon, Gætz, Bezoz, Zuck, Bankman-Fraud, Madeoff, Theranos chick, and so forth can do whatever they wish... because they're RICH. That makes them immune to consequences.
They aren't saying that. Least I don't think they are. Pretty sure they're making the point that the people that get subjected to drug tests are only the lower class. Ie people with food stamps. Don't think they're saying that the government officials are not paid enough.
@@panikk2 I think it was more a reference to the popular (in some circles) idea that poor people should only be given food stamps after they pass a drug test.
Are we just gonna breeze past the other congress people that Matt shared his "stories" and "pictures" with that were also willing to appoint him as AG?! FFS we need to stop voting for these people. What tha heck?!
If it makes you feel better, these crimes will probably disappear too. This rich criminals will never be appropriately punished thanks to our capitalist oligarchy.
As a Floridian who knew some people close to him it’s been known for a while that he was a POS. Most of the people I know here are die hard republicans but they always thought he was scummy af. Makes me wonder why he always won but maybe this is too anecdotal
and yet...nothing more will be done. The first time was involved in the rescue of a S** slave I was a new paramedic. I asked one of the law enforcement professionals if they were going to find the person responsible. He took me to the side and told me that nobody would ever be prosecuted. That even if the culprit was found, it takes a tremendous amount of money to traffic pre-teens into the country. So the person doing it must have money or influence or both. Seeing the anger in my face, he went on to say "think of all the people around here who have money...Who are they..?" As I silently answred to myself, politicians, lawyers, doctors, sports figures...The entire list of possible suspects were all in the top levels of society. As we have seen with other high profile cases, the pattern holds.
Doctors tho? Most doctors I know are either massively broke from med school loans OR dug their way out from under said med school loans and are upper class/ comfortable …..but NOT criminal trafficking underworld rich.
See earlier comment about friend who went to prison because he drove without a driver's license. . . . No, he was not committing a crime...just taking his son to the hospital.
As an outsider to american politics I can't help but notice the trend of a certain party constantly accuses the other of sex crimes with children meanwhile being the same party that has a shocking amount of their top figure heads actually having a history of sex crimes, including that with children, or close relations with prolific history of trafficking and child sex crimes
Many of us on the inside have been paying close attention and we haven't missed it. It's the same party that's in close relation with organized religion...and we haven't missed the same story within their walls either.
Imagine if he became AG, he can just dismiss everyone's sex trafficking charges including those we never knew, retaliate on victims and extort them should they insisted on reporting. Disgusting.
imagine that anyone who became Ag could do that? was Matt gaetz charged/convicted sex trafficking ? are you conflating ? your telling on yourself. considering what u would do.. how u would respond in..😮
@@benpit5012he’s not conflating allegations with conviction but the evidence would be quite damning if it were to end up in a criminal trial. Trump knew about what Gaetz was up to. Nobody doubts that. I think the reason he wanted Gaetz as AG was to protect him for reasons I can’t even begin to imagine. Then again, Gaetz is a bootlicker so Trump probably viewed his sycophancy as loyalty which is what he holds highest above all else.
That they claim "none of the women were under 18" (at 19:10) does that matter? I thought it was illegal to "traffic" *anyone* of *any age* when drugs are involved because the drugs make proper consent impossible. Yes?
If I understand currently, it is only considered trafficking if it is unvoluntary, or statutory because a minor cannot consent to being moved across state borders for the purpose of sex. it would still be prostitution if they traveled willingly across state borders to have commercial sex, but it would not be trafficking. If it had been a minor who traveled across state borders, or if one of the adult women had been unwillingly moved across borders for commercial sex, then it would have been trafficking.
Like she said, the Mann Act is a horribly written piece of legislation originally meant to be used to discriminate against ostracized groups. It was "fixed" after the Jim Crow ended, but the truth is we need a new law on this meant to ACTUALLY combat sex and drug trafficking. That way actual sex offenders, like Matt Gaetz, won't be able to get away from federal jurisdiction.
@@seankrake4776”U.S.C. 7102 prohibits sex trafficking, which is described as a commercial sex act induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or recruitment, harboring, transportation, or obtaining someone for labor or services, or coercion for the purpose of subjecting them to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.” Idk, fraud and coercion don’t seem too outlandish. There’s a reason his targets were young and poor.
@ I don’t think you would be able to get fraud to stick. Coercion maybe, but the video says that prosecutors didn’t think they did not see clear evidence. It’s not beyond reasonable doubt that someone engaged in prostitution would be willing to travel for such activities. You would probably need a direct statement from a person saying they felt coerced to travel and have sex
The way you sit down and break down legal issues in a manner that makes it understandable for those of us who don’t have a law degree is great. You’re willingness to discuss issues that UA-cam might find objectionable is 100% commendable. Thank you for taking on the hard issues.
hes a biased loser, preying on our downfall for content. hes not uniting, he made an hour long video about how trump will fail. none of you care about america, just care that your better or right.
What gets me most isn't that this was exactly worse than what everybody already knew somehow, but in that no way was he held accountable for any of it. Pretty much confirms if you have enough connections, you can do as many illegal drugs or illicit behaviors, while simultaneously being responsible for passing laws that would discourage such.
I'm still waiting for QAnon to step to Gaetz and ask what's up with all this? Or is doodling children only a problem when left-wing "Hollyweird" weirdos do sick stuff like this...?
Every accusation of the Republican Party is actually an admission. Just like when Trump was complaining about water-saving toilets that couldn't flush - turns out he was clogging the toilets with shredded documents. Same $#!t.
If you're a lefty, queer, a poc etc you can be cancelled for making jokes about someone religion. If you're a right wing politican you can commit crimes and face no consequences
...you have to wonder about your safety as a woman when powerful men get to behave this way without any legal ramifications *in full view of the public*.
@@Maverick7613 He’s referring to the guy who shot that CEO, who did not in fact have bad aim. Or I suppose if he did he was too close for it to matter.
Something I try and get other people to realize: Law is a Bureaucracy.... Also a Political System, like all government run bureaucracies. People need to realize mindsets like 'originalism vs precedent' are political ideals. Changeable dependent on which party is in power of the courts at any given time, like other governmental organizations. Our inability to keep this fact in the center of our mind has allowed for a Supreme Court to be filled with the 'heritage foundation' party members, and those people don't believe in precedent at all. Everyone rather pretend that branch is somehow immune to politics?!
I watched the legal system throw out all of the 60+ challenges to the 2020 election. In a lot of those cases, the people challenging the election results had to pay the defendants' legal costs and there were a number of lawyers involved who had their law licenses taken away. That was justice. I'm not disputing your very good point "You have a legal system. It's not a justice system." But in the past 8 years, there have been little bits of justice amidst the travesties. A close observer would see at least "one bit of justice done."
@@GrexsomeCan't speak for @Vinster, but I do find it ironic that she is on this specific video while co-hosting a podcast with a credibly accused harasser who has admitted to 'mistakes' but never credibly apologized.
@@Grexsomeshe constantly uses editorializing language to nudge facts closer to her personal feelings. I don't disagree with where she's nudging it towards, but I'm done with people trying to paint reality in their own colors. We need to push for pure objectivity regardless of how impossible that is.
@@ItsMichaelDavis She's not a journalist. She's a commentator and is as free to give her opinion as Maria Bartiromo and Dan Bongino are. She is actually far more factual than that crowd is. Go tell THEM to clean up their act.
And surely the party of Christian and family values would have something to say about drug abuse. Right? Or flaunting sex-pics in Congress. Surely a good Christian would find that revolting and throw Matt out.
Biden's DOJ investigated it and found that the person who made up the allegations had no evidence that didn't incriminate himself - with the motivation to lessen his sentence by framing Gaetz. That's the problem, the politician's report can ignore the fact that the allegations are false - and just report it as if it were true... But the Feds couldn't, so they couldn't charge.
Frankly I can't think of anyone in government that shouldn't have their laptop checked. Politics has always attracted this sort of predator, the same way Hollywood does.
@@willythemailboy2Remember that when you say "Hollywood" the majority of the problem is the executives who have all the money. The working class actors and crew - even the ones whose roles have earned them a lot of money - aren't the problem unless they've kowtowed to those executives.
@@doomsdayrabbit4398 Diddy, Matt Lauer, Danny Masterson, Amber Heard, etc. all argue otherwise. Probably the grips and camera guys are decent people, though.
It's odd that UA-cam would demonetize a video like this which is simply covering the news with an in-depth legal perspective. This is no different than 60 minutes or the news. There is still advertising for those programs. Just stupid, rant over. Love the work you do and how you continue to make it more polished over time. You're doing awesome!
@cericat bias of what? Phill DeFranco gets demonitized a lot and even others whom are in the middle even the quarter pounder gets demonitized and he says its cause of the libs... lol
Well, UA-cam wants to be safe and clean for the whole family, since kids drive engagement way up by watching tons of videos. 60 Minutes and the news aren't like that, and they're okay with it.
I couldn't help but stop the video to read some of the venmo descriptions, and I couldn't help laughing that one of the payments was listed as "Being my friend". 😂 There was also one listed as "Shoes for my fav uber driver :)".
right?! pretty sure '30s' is at least a decade late to try the 'youthful indiscretions' defense. plus, he's 42, the 17 year old girl he assaulted probable can't even drink yet
I'm nearly 30 and I'm not going to party with 17 year olds. In my mind older men who party with younger women are immediately suspect. The only real reasons you would do that are for sex and/or drugs.
Everyone knew he had committed crimes several years ago. It was all over the news. The real question is why he hasn't been arrested yet and why it took a house ethics report to even bother investigating. What are the police doing?
1:39 ok, so his republican colleagues didn’t defend him… but they also didn’t oust him when they knew he’s a pedophile. So… no, no cookies for them. Silence is not the same as doing what’s right.
Holy Mother. I can't imagine doing even ONE of these crimes off the clock and expect to keep my job. And then this half melted Funko Pop did all of that at work?
Being a Republican government official has got to the best job ever. You can do whatever you want, and when you get caught you just blame it on the democrats and half of the country will believe you
@@severalcrowsinatrenchcoat Cancelling? Bud light, M&M, Nike, Keurig, anything with poc...I could literally go on. Magas are the biggest whiners and crybabies you will ever find
@moneyball32 I think Menendez did? But pretty much nobody believed him, which is the crucial difference. Most Democrats want credible allegations investigated, then prosecuted if appropriate. They get cranky when politicians interfere with the process, in fact...
So, the reason Gaetz was never charged is that he did not actually break any federal laws, but did break Florida state laws. However, the Florida AG never took up the investigation. I finally understand what all the hubbub was about.
well he did but not flagrantly enough for them to want to prosecute. Mostly the drug stuff would be federal territory but eh they don't want to deal with it.
Oh he broke federal laws alright - he crossed state lines or induced people to cross state lines to commit crimes. But in America you can get away with anything if you're rich and powerful.
There are plenty of Federal crimes alleged. The Feds didn't charge because the source of the allegations was a convicted felon who claimed all the illegal images and information which HE POSSESSED - were actually Gaetz' instead... Right....
It's a shitty case. Everyone involved has severe credibility issues. Drugged out teen prostitutes are not good witnesses. The chance the case would result in a conviction was very small.
The corruption of the GOP , knowing full well what would be on the report, and being against its release, Mr Speaker ;and also those who knew but would still vote for Gaetz is sickening. What a bastion of GOP morality.
I really don’t understand why he isn’t on trial?? I know there’s a lot of legal understanding that I lack but how in earth is he not jailed for this? The amount of evidence seems substantial. There was a full investigation that basically concluded he did it… why was he not then jailed? Why did they just sit on this? Is there an actual legal answer? Maybe they cover it in still watching but goddamn
@@Grexsome Most likely none of the victims are willing to press charges, either because they were paid off, or they're afraid to. Usually a combination of the two. It's a big part of why wealthy people have different laws than regular joes, victims tend to not pursue against them for a number of reasons.
@@Grexsome The long and short of it is that, for whatever reason, none of the people he used wanted to press charges even if they were willing to testify. With the way that prosecution works in the USA, prosecutors get to choose which cases they pick, and a case where the victim takes the defendant's side is difficult and often fruitless to prosecute. Add to this that it's a felony under FL law to accept payment for sex, and they won't report it.
@@planescaped Women who were kids at the time were groomed with $$ and booze. Its only because he is a well known politician he will never see the inside of a cell. The party of "family values" and "law and order" and their followers would come down so hard on the victims - doxxing, swatting, false reports, the whole nine yards. The media circus is insufferable for most and my guess is they just want to be rid of the whole ordeal. Politicians just simply have too much influence, money and power and it will only get worse.
Ok, can we PLEASE get a supercut of Devon saying, "Obviously if you're going to commit (*insert absolutely wild crime here*), you're going to want a good lawyer."?
Wild how politicians can do wild amounts of hard drugs and get nominated to be attorney general, having to do with the very laws that say if we smoke weed, we get drug tested and lose our jobs. What a contrast.
2:39 - The "I was young and dumb" excuse only works when "young" means "my teens" and "dumb" means "20 years ago." Buddy, this was your 30s, which ended only 3 years ago. Despite your behavior, you were still the definition of a full grown adult. You are not a different person.
To just not commit crimes? According to government officials, wealthy individuals, and even social media influencers, it's simply impossible to not do horrible things.
Not that the channel was missing anything before but Liz really brings some great energy to it. Hearing her for the first time from the 'Trumps Nominees' video. I laughed alot at her style of describing this clown show. Please keep her going forward.
@lucienarcos-palma3834 Basically, the AG is the highest authority lawyer in the country who serves on the president's personal cabinet and weigs in on laws and other legal matters. This is the most basic cursory explanation and honestly explains little. But it works for the discussion.
There shouldn't even BE an option for this kind of report to be withheld from the public. If your position is literally one which, by definition, is a public servant then reports on your criminal behavior being withheld from that very same public is absolutely nonsensical. If there is an ongoing legal investigation and names or identities need to be redacted, fine, there is a mechanism for that sort of thing. But there absolutely should not be any possibility of just "we're not telling" with this shit.
Trump and Musk knew all of this information and stood at the mountain tops screaming "HE'S OUR GUY" Keep your families safe and keep kids away from Trump supporters.
I have grown up spending a good time around Pensacola and knew in my heart that his family (a big deal there) had shut the state case down, but the sheer gravity of all this staggers me.
When a politician can do things like this and have a well-paying career, with fame afterwards, the world is in a bad way. It's so far past the point of common decency, it's as if that no longer exists without political strings attached, it's sad.
The clip of Tucker and Gaetz is wild. I don't understand how Tucker manages to sit completely stock still looking like a 90+ year old person looking at an iPad held at arm's length while dude is telling him that he had dinner with him and his wife and brought a sex worker with him. Also how did they find two dudes with enough forehead to make at least 4 normal looking people between them.
Because Tucker is a propagandist on behalf of whoever is willing to bankroll him, in the little time he sat still like that, he probably made more money than most americans make in months, possibly years.
I'm pretty sure the only reason why this report was released is because he's a fantastically terrible politician and burned bridges with too many of his own party. If he had just shut up for 5 minutes he would absolutely have been the next USAG
Amidst all of the drugs, prostitution, yachts, drugs, fraud, Tucker Carlson interviews, and prostitution… when the fk does this guy actually even DO HIS JOB?
Welllll, he goes visitin' tax collector's offices out of hours, just checkin' how the operations go down, right? "So this licence right here, it's trash, yeah? Can I have it, for a keepsake?"
So in Florida you can, as a congressman, ship and buy drugs illegal for any other American, but not here; transport woman and pay them for sexual “favors”, and personally be involved in a illegal ID fraud. Only in America 🤦🏻♂️
@ that’s the irony. We’re watching this unfold in front of us and still nobody is doing anything about it. We have the most insane corruption in America. No contest.
@aguywithalotofopinions412 we're not talking about other countries. Yeah there's shitty politicians everywhere, but America has a knack for installing politicians with extraordinarily brazen and outlandish disregard for the justice system. How about we address the mountains of issues here without trying to deflect the blow by saying "oH bUt oTHeR cOuNtRiEs aRe WoRSe", as if that makes any of this okay.
Wait, if Gaetz was known to show pictures and videos of his sex adventures in Congress why didn’t anyone do something?? That’s a very not ok thing to do, it doesn’t matter if it’s just a one night stand or your partner
@@Swatotasticin a work place it can fall under sexual harassment rules (and even some employment law) to be shown such material without your consent, and if it involves a minor is outright illegal in state and fed legislation. Why should congress be treated differently in that respect?
@@ateamfan42 - No, they pay to for crimes charges to be dropped. Unless they're paying for someone else to do the dirty work. unless you're FDJT, in which case you just don't pay your employees.
A "lower class" person would have been rotting in jail a long time ago. I hate this. In monarchies, there at least wasn't any pretense of everyone being equal in front of the law. There's so much corruption in politics, everyone knows it, and almost nothing every happens. Now what will happen to Gaetz? A slap on the wrist from daddy, and not exactly the political office he wanted? I don't even want to know, all this is just making me angry.
I mean, we are talking about a country that elected a felon to be president. No one is really surprised here. It's a clown show that succeeded at making us hate each other and be distracted from their corruption. Our whole government is 100% toast, man. I've given up on it a long time ago.
Preach! I tried not to do the same, but I think it's time to write this whole thing off too. I'm cynical enough to expect a degree of corruption in politicians. Even a high degree, but THIS is ridiculous. These people can probably commit murder with justifiably no fear of consequences. It's some real "banana republic-" type stuff...
I have a strange theory that the plan is to collapse the country, each time he says the plan is to take it away so that the others are forced to come up with a solution. He has said this for health tax and economy
Damn, I'm more secretive about my venmo history than this guy and the sleaziest thing I pay for is tamales from a cart that might not have a business license.
It is important to the ruling class that the workers understand that they are powerless. The point of flaunting power and influence is to demoralize any opposition.
I know this isn't crucial in a legal sense, but the last lines shown at 17:06 is just...heartbreaking. "I think about it all the time...I still see him when I turn on the TV and there's nothing anyone can do. It's frustrating to know I lived a reality that he denies"
thats regret, totally different than abuse. Keep in mind these women were actively on sugar daddy sites looking for this type of behaviour. Not absolving these men, but there is accountability to be had on both sides. And that 17 year old admitted to soliciting Greenberg to make he the license she eventually got, that allowed her to prove her age to the site.
@@husher5142 you're assuming these women were on the site consensually and not put in a position that coerced them in the first place. Not saying that's what happened but you can't be sure it didn't. Just because someone does something does not mean they're totally consenting. This is day one sex trafficking stuff.
That was an excellent report by Liz. A great summary of a very complex case in 20 minutes or so. She must be a lawyer or something! Great channel with content that is most important for all of us to be aware. Thank you for your work.
Unfortunately that's pretty much every country throughout human civilization. The only reason powerful people see justice for their actions is if it benifits some other powerful person.
You elect way too many positions that are government employees in the rest of the world. Who the eff thinks electing tax collectors is a good idea because of the conflict of interest it generates? Only America.
@@col.hertford9855 That is a good point. To be clear, most states do NOT elect tax collectors. Just one or two states that bought into the paranoid myth that tax collectors are inherently an army of oppression.
I am very grateful that you are more explicit in what you believe. There were way too many media illiterate people who dishonestly co-opted your content back before you started doing this
“This is obviously before he got married” No bro. As a Floridian who just got out of service over seas, nothing about this was obvious. Except maybe after watching C-SPAN and seeing that people on the house floor have about as much decorum as a classroom full of high school students, based on how often they are told to quiet down and take their conversations outside. Our representatives are out of control. I’m stepping up. Gabriel Quade Petersen for President 2032.
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No, he will not
Unfortunately probably not
No. He has Money/Power.
No chance.
Will many in government face justice? Easy answer ... no ... not to mention rich people. we already know Clinton and Gates were at Epstein island will they face prosecution? nope .. complete double standard. Elite vs the citizens.
Why if I’m a trucker, pipefitter, or a miner I would have to take drug tests but if I’m a congressman I don’t have to?
Power and powerful friends
Because quite frankly, those jobs are more important. These politicians are all a joke, it's a get rich fast scam.
If you're president you can be non compos mentis and still hold office.
You know why.
Who made those laws, sir? That’s why.
Matt Gaetz looks like how British satire shows would portray a US politician.
Lol like it's even possible to satirize that country thesedays.
I forget the name of that puppet show they had, but that one in particular
Edit: AHH, I was thinking of _Spitting Image._
That, or an Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion NPC.
I read somewhere that he looks like the Mayor of Whoville, and I'll never unsee it. But I can also see that too, lmao.
@@lasagnewolf bro 😭😭😭😭 that's so true
Nothing makes me more upset than a lack of accountability for horrible people.
So then why don't they release ALL the ethics reports on ALL members of Congress?
@@gsf23that's a great idea! Unironically.
Welcome to basically all of human history, sadly.
If you live in America, I have bad news for you...
@@gsf23i would like to see that honestly, in fact make it monthly reporting.
As a Christian and former Republican, the lack of moral character and accountability within the Republican Party continues to shock the conscience.
And the Democrat Party is the paragon of virtue? 😂
@ neither party is white as snow, however, each party has a responsibility to uphold ethics and behavioral standards within the party members (as well as across the aisle). The fact he was protected and not prosecuted for alleged felony crimes including sex with a minor and trafficking needs to be investigated. This is negligent and a cover up.
@@cw5948in comparison yes.
@@cw5948that’s what you took from this? You would. No one is saying the Dems are the party or virtue, but the hypocrisy is laughable. Maybe, that’s why it when over your little head.
As a liberal and a democrat, I am sorry for the loss of your party.
If Matt keeps this up, they're going to vote him in as president.
I'd like to laugh; but, I'm afraid that you're right.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I wish that was funny, but it is not unimaginable in this current era. My God, what has happened to my country?
@@divermike8943 "My God, what has happened to my country?"
Capitalism and social media.
Andrew Tate / Matt Gaetz 2028 for the GOP
Just remember that Trump and his team ABSOLUTELY would have known about a lot of, if not all of, the stuff Gaetz did. And they almost ended up appointing him AG.
They tried but he stepped down
I've seen Trump fans say that Trump ousted Gaetz on purpose by trying to appoint him as AG, knowing he'd never get confirmed. They claim Trump wanted to get rid of a predator. The level of cope is astronomical.
What did you expect from Jeffstein buddy?
The Rep in the beginning of the video even explicitly said that he was showing nudes on the Congress floor, and then said he'd still vote for him. Genuinely, morals are nothing to Republicans, they'll lip service the Christian base, but will not actually act under the principles they push.
Sadly, they don't care.
One sad part about seeing supervillain takeover is that the real villains aren't the supergeniuses that we see in movies. They just send illegal payments on public Venmo accounts and whine on TV...
And what's worse is that our justice system still can't keep up with these plonkers
The criminal justice system assumes good faith and assumes the people running the criminal justice system aren't all bought and paid for.
I mostly agree except elon musk exists and that dude is very much like a james bond supervillain lol
Because they know they won't be held accountable. If you're rich or connected, you don't need to be competent.
i think it's less of a 'can't' and more of a 'won't', really (though it certainly is fascinating that the biden DoJ was this reluctant to play ball)
Correction, what's worse our justice system still treats the rich separately from us little people.
UA-cam makes videos like this demonetized because its "unsafe for advertisers" yet the major cable networks get major advertising dollars everyday covering the same crap!
Yup. It's called BE RICH. 💪😎✌️ If you're wealthy, then yer healthy. If not... well, flack off! 😂 Chump, 3lon, Gætz, Bezoz, Zuck, Bankman-Fraud, Madeoff, Theranos chick, and so forth can do whatever they wish... because they're RICH. That makes them immune to consequences.
A publisher isn't a platform and vice versa...
@@Nowhyi've seen monetized hate speech on this platform
They should let advertisers manually choose what channels/videos they don't want ads on. Not rely on an imperfect algorithm.
@averagemordhauplayer4821 you still believe in hate speech? or misinformation?
It's wild that Matt Gaetz looks like a real-life version of Butthead and that's not even in the top 10 worst things about him.
Don't you disgrace Butthead by that loathsome comparison.
I have much more respect for Butthead than Gaetz .
They are both stupid but Butthead is more honest.
SNL is 100% going to get Bill Hader to play him.
In fact, that is actually the closest thing to a positive trait for Gaetz.
Oh, good. I was hoping someone would beat me to the comparison. ^_^
As long as drugs are illegal, lawmakers should be required to regularly pass drug screening
but they don't get food stamps
@@JessicaKayKay If you think congress isn't overpaid with tax dollars just say that.
They aren't saying that. Least I don't think they are. Pretty sure they're making the point that the people that get subjected to drug tests are only the lower class. Ie people with food stamps. Don't think they're saying that the government officials are not paid enough.
@@panikk2 I think it was more a reference to the popular (in some circles) idea that poor people should only be given food stamps after they pass a drug test.
Best idea I've heard all day.
Are we just gonna breeze past the other congress people that Matt shared his "stories" and "pictures" with that were also willing to appoint him as AG?!
FFS we need to stop voting for these people. What tha heck?!
THIS
That's like 95% of Congress.
worst congress in history they cant get sh#* done or passed
Unfortunately, the way the election maps are drawn, they will NEVER be voted out of their seats unless they get less than 30% of the votes or die.
Every accusation with the Reich is a confession
This video did a great job of staying on topic and not getting lost in all the DUIs which his dad made disappear.
@@jayangus well said! 😂👏👏
If it makes you feel better, these crimes will probably disappear too. This rich criminals will never be appropriately punished thanks to our capitalist oligarchy.
As a Floridian who knew some people close to him it’s been known for a while that he was a POS. Most of the people I know here are die hard republicans but they always thought he was scummy af. Makes me wonder why he always won but maybe this is too anecdotal
@ You are dead on. It sucks people rather vote party lines than vote for someone with the slightest bit of integrity.
and yet...nothing more will be done. The first time was involved in the rescue of a S** slave I was a new paramedic. I asked one of the law enforcement professionals if they were going to find the person responsible. He took me to the side and told me that nobody would ever be prosecuted. That even if the culprit was found, it takes a tremendous amount of money to traffic pre-teens into the country. So the person doing it must have money or influence or both. Seeing the anger in my face, he went on to say "think of all the people around here who have money...Who are they..?" As I silently answred to myself, politicians, lawyers, doctors, sports figures...The entire list of possible suspects were all in the top levels of society.
As we have seen with other high profile cases, the pattern holds.
It’s infuriating how the world really works
depressing but that officer was probably right :/
Doctors tho? Most doctors I know are either massively broke from med school loans OR dug their way out from under said med school loans and are upper class/ comfortable …..but NOT criminal trafficking underworld rich.
@@interloc1290 The older ones didn't...
Well if the cops won't do anything I guess the people have to.
They say power corrupts, I say the corrupt seek power.
Frank Herbert (who wrote Dune) said something similar, that "power attracts the corruptible".
Fuckin' true, it's the horrible creeps that will do all the horrible shit just to get power
The answer is both.
The best leaders / union reps are the guys who don't want the position, they just want to do the right thing
I love this J Cole line that goes, "I realize deep down you're a coward getting high off of power."
Unfortunately he won't face the justice he deserves, because rich people don't follow the same laws we do.
See earlier comment about friend who went to prison because he drove without a driver's license. . . . No, he was not committing a crime...just taking his son to the hospital.
Notice nobody... even lawyers... dare mutter the words "nobody is above the law" anymore? That era is over.
The guy has multiple duis, he never faced consequences for anything.
"There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect"
@@Grinnar Hunter Biden
As an outsider to american politics I can't help but notice the trend of a certain party constantly accuses the other of sex crimes with children meanwhile being the same party that has a shocking amount of their top figure heads actually having a history of sex crimes, including that with children, or close relations with prolific history of trafficking and child sex crimes
And then you have legions of idiots saying that both sides are the same.
I say this all the time. It’s wild how many people claiming to protect the children are just abusers. Like the predator that made sound of freedom
It happens everywhere, but the democrats bury their parties crimes.
@@bdawg-qj9bq
That's the opposite of reality lmao.
Many of us on the inside have been paying close attention and we haven't missed it. It's the same party that's in close relation with organized religion...and we haven't missed the same story within their walls either.
Imagine if he became AG, he can just dismiss everyone's sex trafficking charges including those we never knew, retaliate on victims and extort them should they insisted on reporting. Disgusting.
And they had to have known about at least some of this…. And they wanted to give him this position, absolutely disgusting
I would not be surprised if Trump nominated him to preemptively cover up a trafficking ring. he knew what he was doing.
imagine that anyone who became Ag could do that? was Matt gaetz charged/convicted sex trafficking ? are you conflating ?
your telling on yourself. considering what u would do.. how u would respond in..😮
Hopefully Gaetz is his only corrupt or incompetent pick...
@@benpit5012he’s not conflating allegations with conviction but the evidence would be quite damning if it were to end up in a criminal trial.
Trump knew about what Gaetz was up to. Nobody doubts that. I think the reason he wanted Gaetz as AG was to protect him for reasons I can’t even begin to imagine. Then again, Gaetz is a bootlicker so Trump probably viewed his sycophancy as loyalty which is what he holds highest above all else.
With this administration, I fear Liz will never get a day off
Selfishly, I'm delighted because Liz Dye is fantastic
🤣Because Joe Biden's administration didn't do anything worthy of reporting on? Both sides are just as bad as the other in terms of corruption.
It's my one ray of sunshine right now
Two groups having a field day, lawyers and comedians.
Hopefully she doesn't get arrested for simply saying what's going on.
That they claim "none of the women were under 18" (at 19:10) does that matter? I thought it was illegal to "traffic" *anyone* of *any age* when drugs are involved because the drugs make proper consent impossible. Yes?
If I understand currently, it is only considered trafficking if it is unvoluntary, or statutory because a minor cannot consent to being moved across state borders for the purpose of sex. it would still be prostitution if they traveled willingly across state borders to have commercial sex, but it would not be trafficking. If it had been a minor who traveled across state borders, or if one of the adult women had been unwillingly moved across borders for commercial sex, then it would have been trafficking.
Like she said, the Mann Act is a horribly written piece of legislation originally meant to be used to discriminate against ostracized groups. It was "fixed" after the Jim Crow ended, but the truth is we need a new law on this meant to ACTUALLY combat sex and drug trafficking. That way actual sex offenders, like Matt Gaetz, won't be able to get away from federal jurisdiction.
@@seankrake4776”U.S.C. 7102 prohibits sex trafficking, which is described as a commercial sex act induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or recruitment, harboring, transportation, or obtaining someone for labor or services, or coercion for the purpose of subjecting them to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.”
Idk, fraud and coercion don’t seem too outlandish. There’s a reason his targets were young and poor.
@ I don’t think you would be able to get fraud to stick. Coercion maybe, but the video says that prosecutors didn’t think they did not see clear evidence. It’s not beyond reasonable doubt that someone engaged in prostitution would be willing to travel for such activities. You would probably need a direct statement from a person saying they felt coerced to travel and have sex
@@seankrake4776… she (narrator) stated that the law is sooo broad…. meaning it can be interpreted differently depending on who is being charged so…
The way you sit down and break down legal issues in a manner that makes it understandable for those of us who don’t have a law degree is great. You’re willingness to discuss issues that UA-cam might find objectionable is 100% commendable. Thank you for taking on the hard issues.
hes a biased loser, preying on our downfall for content. hes not uniting, he made an hour long video about how trump will fail. none of you care about america, just care that your better or right.
What gets me most isn't that this was exactly worse than what everybody already knew somehow, but in that no way was he held accountable for any of it. Pretty much confirms if you have enough connections, you can do as many illegal drugs or illicit behaviors, while simultaneously being responsible for passing laws that would discourage such.
I have a friend who went to prison because he drove without a valid driver's license. PRISON.
if you have money and power you aren't beholden to the laws everyone else is.
Well, unless you're Biden's kid, then you get actually get convicted, but immediately pardoned.
The party which complained about grooming of children.
Who would have thought? /s
I'm still waiting for QAnon to step to Gaetz and ask what's up with all this? Or is doodling children only a problem when left-wing "Hollyweird" weirdos do sick stuff like this...?
Every accusation of the Republican Party is actually an admission. Just like when Trump was complaining about water-saving toilets that couldn't flush - turns out he was clogging the toilets with shredded documents. Same $#!t.
Every accusation is a confession
the call is always comeing from inside the house
Yep. Masters of Projection.
"This is obviously before he got married "
Yes, Gaetz is clearly a man of deep conviction, who would NEVER break the sanctity of his marriage vows.
LOL that made me roll my eyes too!
Like as though it implies "it is fine for a right winger to do all that illegal activity because they weren't married yet."
Lol 😂
@@Quinn37 his elopement was very close to when things were going down. Did not surprise me from an optics standpoint.
Who would marry him?
“Protect the children! Until the person harming the children is someone I want to support without guilt”
Daily reminder that apparantly it’s never a crime or immoral if you’re a conservative no matter what you do. These people are accountable to nothing
Is this a good thing or a bad thing? 🤔
@@williamharris8367 I hope that’s sarcasm.
And Nancy Pelosi never did insider trading.
just say Grace on Sundays and you're golden
If you're a lefty, queer, a poc etc you can be cancelled for making jokes about someone religion. If you're a right wing politican you can commit crimes and face no consequences
Thank you, @LegalEagle and Liz Dye!
If an average person did _a fraction of_ what Gaetz did, the impact of *the book* would result in a concussion!
tldr....what did he do?
@@benpit5012 Watch the video
Weird... Try asking Liz about her podcast co-host who she keeps defending from credible claims of harassment from women.
...you have to wonder about your safety as a woman when powerful men get to behave this way without any legal ramifications *in full view of the public*.
Nothing has changed. It's always been this way. There are history books full of this crap going back millennia.
Well, at least the people seem to know what to do when the legal system won't step in... unless we're treating c e o s more harshly than congressmen.
but "misogyny is gone" I guess :/
@@wrathofainz - The problem with "the people" (at least 20 year old PA people) handling the problem is that their aim sucks...
@@Maverick7613 He’s referring to the guy who shot that CEO, who did not in fact have bad aim. Or I suppose if he did he was too close for it to matter.
Why is the GoP so anti-drug but constantly being caught doing drugs?
They don't want to share
They want to keep funneling money from drug arrests and "fighting the cartels at the border"
Drug arrests that their wealth and connections can assure they'll never have to worry about themselves.
You have a legal system. It's not a justice system. The past 8 years I have not seen one bit of justice done.
Something I try and get other people to realize:
Law is a Bureaucracy....
Also a Political System, like all government run bureaucracies.
People need to realize mindsets like 'originalism vs precedent' are political ideals. Changeable dependent on which party is in power of the courts at any given time, like other governmental organizations. Our inability to keep this fact in the center of our mind has allowed for a Supreme Court to be filled with the 'heritage foundation' party members, and those people don't believe in precedent at all.
Everyone rather pretend that branch is somehow immune to politics?!
Oh there's a Just*Us* System alright. It just ain't for us.
In the immortal words of Cleaver Greene: "I don't care about justice. I care about the law."
Are all laws just?
I watched the legal system throw out all of the 60+ challenges to the 2020 election. In a lot of those cases, the people challenging the election results had to pay the defendants' legal costs and there were a number of lawyers involved who had their law licenses taken away. That was justice.
I'm not disputing your very good point "You have a legal system. It's not a justice system." But in the past 8 years, there have been little bits of justice amidst the travesties. A close observer would see at least "one bit of justice done."
Really am enjoying these Liz Dye segments, she’s really clear and professional about difficult topics to discuss in a way that makes them watchable
Liz is a great addition to the Legal Eagle team
@ what don’t you like about her?
@@GrexsomeCan't speak for @Vinster, but I do find it ironic that she is on this specific video while co-hosting a podcast with a credibly accused harasser who has admitted to 'mistakes' but never credibly apologized.
@@Grexsomeshe constantly uses editorializing language to nudge facts closer to her personal feelings. I don't disagree with where she's nudging it towards, but I'm done with people trying to paint reality in their own colors. We need to push for pure objectivity regardless of how impossible that is.
@@ItsMichaelDavis She's not a journalist. She's a commentator and is as free to give her opinion as Maria Bartiromo and Dan Bongino are. She is actually far more factual than that crowd is. Go tell THEM to clean up their act.
Oh crimes you say? Well then I expect the "law and order" party to enforce the law and maintain order by adequate and fair punishment... Hmm...
And surely the party of Christian and family values would have something to say about drug abuse. Right?
Or flaunting sex-pics in Congress. Surely a good Christian would find that revolting and throw Matt out.
Biden's DOJ investigated it and found that the person who made up the allegations had no evidence that didn't incriminate himself - with the motivation to lessen his sentence by framing Gaetz.
That's the problem, the politician's report can ignore the fact that the allegations are false - and just report it as if it were true... But the Feds couldn't, so they couldn't charge.
I love Liz's delivery on these! So glad she's part of the channel now.
Anyone in Congress or the senate who came to his defense needs to have their laptops checked.
Frankly I can't think of anyone in government that shouldn't have their laptop checked. Politics has always attracted this sort of predator, the same way Hollywood does.
@@willythemailboy2Remember that when you say "Hollywood" the majority of the problem is the executives who have all the money. The working class actors and crew - even the ones whose roles have earned them a lot of money - aren't the problem unless they've kowtowed to those executives.
@@doomsdayrabbit4398 Diddy, Matt Lauer, Danny Masterson, Amber Heard, etc. all argue otherwise. Probably the grips and camera guys are decent people, though.
It's odd that UA-cam would demonetize a video like this which is simply covering the news with an in-depth legal perspective. This is no different than 60 minutes or the news. There is still advertising for those programs. Just stupid, rant over.
Love the work you do and how you continue to make it more polished over time. You're doing awesome!
Not odd, their advertising "friendly" enforcement has always shown clear bias.
Also the "news" would never report this.
@cericat bias of what? Phill DeFranco gets demonitized a lot and even others whom are in the middle even the quarter pounder gets demonitized and he says its cause of the libs... lol
Lies and corrupt communist committee propaganda. Not news.
Well, UA-cam wants to be safe and clean for the whole family, since kids drive engagement way up by watching tons of videos. 60 Minutes and the news aren't like that, and they're okay with it.
I couldn't help but stop the video to read some of the venmo descriptions, and I couldn't help laughing that one of the payments was listed as "Being my friend". 😂 There was also one listed as "Shoes for my fav uber driver :)".
1:49
"This is obviously before he got married."
So that's his moral limit? Infidelity?
Yes. Because the ten commandments permit many horrific acts.
Gaetz saying "I'm sorry, I partied a lot in my 30s, as if that isn't a decade late for most people, is hilarious.
right?! pretty sure '30s' is at least a decade late to try the 'youthful indiscretions' defense. plus, he's 42, the 17 year old girl he assaulted probable can't even drink yet
Some people don't have a party phase at all. And since when is trafficking part of partying?!
Also as a part of the government. Maybe we should have slightly higher standards for officials, dunno.
When you're a nepo baby, you don't have to grow up as fast as the rest of us so partying like an 18 year old at 38 sounds about right for him.
I'm nearly 30 and I'm not going to party with 17 year olds. In my mind older men who party with younger women are immediately suspect. The only real reasons you would do that are for sex and/or drugs.
Everyone knew he had committed crimes several years ago. It was all over the news. The real question is why he hasn't been arrested yet and why it took a house ethics report to even bother investigating. What are the police doing?
the police are doing exactly what they think their job is
I hear his dad has a lot of money
Well, when dad is a rich and powerful Florida man . . .
The cops were too busy shining their boots
Owning the libs
Gaetz somehow manages to look like both Beavis and Butthead at the same time.
😂😂🎉😂😂 So true
That's a disservice to Beavis and Butthead.
😂😂😂
Even they look more handsome than him
😂😂😂
1:39 ok, so his republican colleagues didn’t defend him… but they also didn’t oust him when they knew he’s a pedophile. So… no, no cookies for them. Silence is not the same as doing what’s right.
This could have been an episode of Sick Sad World.
@@zizimugen4470 silence is complicity.
Holy Mother. I can't imagine doing even ONE of these crimes off the clock and expect to keep my job. And then this half melted Funko Pop did all of that at work?
OMG he does look like that XD
Well, don't forget that this is the country in which a federal custodial worker has more ethics restrictions than a Supreme Court judge...
Trying desperately not to laugh my ass off on a crowded bus reading that description...
"Half melted Funko Pop" is spot on! I was having a drink of pop and when I read that, I laughed so hard that pop shot out of my nose!
Being a Republican government official has got to the best job ever. You can do whatever you want, and when you get caught you just blame it on the democrats and half of the country will believe you
You just described both parties
@@sev7nnn i mean yeah both parties are gonna have bias to their own people but the democrats/liberals tend to lean more towards 'cancelling' and other
@@sev7nnn when’s the last time a Democratic Party member said they were being targeted politically in response to a credible accusation of misconduct?
@@severalcrowsinatrenchcoat Cancelling? Bud light, M&M, Nike, Keurig, anything with poc...I could literally go on. Magas are the biggest whiners and crybabies you will ever find
@moneyball32 I think Menendez did? But pretty much nobody believed him, which is the crucial difference. Most Democrats want credible allegations investigated, then prosecuted if appropriate. They get cranky when politicians interfere with the process, in fact...
So, the reason Gaetz was never charged is that he did not actually break any federal laws, but did break Florida state laws. However, the Florida AG never took up the investigation. I finally understand what all the hubbub was about.
well he did but not flagrantly enough for them to want to prosecute. Mostly the drug stuff would be federal territory but eh they don't want to deal with it.
Oh he broke federal laws alright - he crossed state lines or induced people to cross state lines to commit crimes. But in America you can get away with anything if you're rich and powerful.
There was allegations of transportation of a minor over state lines during the Greenberg investigation, that is a federal matter.
There are plenty of Federal crimes alleged. The Feds didn't charge because the source of the allegations was a convicted felon who claimed all the illegal images and information which HE POSSESSED - were actually Gaetz' instead... Right....
It's a shitty case. Everyone involved has severe credibility issues. Drugged out teen prostitutes are not good witnesses. The chance the case would result in a conviction was very small.
The corruption of the GOP , knowing full well what would be on the report, and being against its release, Mr Speaker ;and also those who knew but would still vote for Gaetz is sickening. What a bastion of GOP morality.
Convicted and imprisoned former congressman matt gaetz has a better ring to it. Sadly we don’t live in that reality.
I really don’t understand why he isn’t on trial?? I know there’s a lot of legal understanding that I lack but how in earth is he not jailed for this? The amount of evidence seems substantial. There was a full investigation that basically concluded he did it… why was he not then jailed? Why did they just sit on this? Is there an actual legal answer? Maybe they cover it in still watching but goddamn
The best reality is where he was never elected either.
@@Grexsome Most likely none of the victims are willing to press charges, either because they were paid off, or they're afraid to. Usually a combination of the two.
It's a big part of why wealthy people have different laws than regular joes, victims tend to not pursue against them for a number of reasons.
@@Grexsome The long and short of it is that, for whatever reason, none of the people he used wanted to press charges even if they were willing to testify. With the way that prosecution works in the USA, prosecutors get to choose which cases they pick, and a case where the victim takes the defendant's side is difficult and often fruitless to prosecute. Add to this that it's a felony under FL law to accept payment for sex, and they won't report it.
@@planescaped Women who were kids at the time were groomed with $$ and booze. Its only because he is a well known politician he will never see the inside of a cell. The party of "family values" and "law and order" and their followers would come down so hard on the victims - doxxing, swatting, false reports, the whole nine yards. The media circus is insufferable for most and my guess is they just want to be rid of the whole ordeal. Politicians just simply have too much influence, money and power and it will only get worse.
Ok, can we PLEASE get a supercut of Devon saying, "Obviously if you're going to commit (*insert absolutely wild crime here*), you're going to want a good lawyer."?
🎉reminds me of Saul Goodman, lol
Please!
@ I want to know if anyone ever actually does this.
Why do you need a good lawyer? The DOJ evidently can't be bothered to charge him with anything.
As an attorney, you would think he would've been smarter. He's just another guy, born to a wealthy family, who thinks he can do whatever he wants.
Hey, Matt's the future governor of Greenland.
Giuliani was an attorney as well. I don't think being an attorney automatically makes you a smart person.
He does not need to and he knows it.
He does do whatever he wants.
thinks? this is america.
Wild how politicians can do wild amounts of hard drugs and get nominated to be attorney general, having to do with the very laws that say if we smoke weed, we get drug tested and lose our jobs. What a contrast.
There is one reason why Florida didn't prosecute: Don Gaetz, father of the perp and friend of DeSantis.
Big Daddy Don Gaetz was head of the Florida Senate.
Both...
0:29 Just want to note that if one of them was 17 years old, then it's not 12 women. It's 11 women and a child.
100%. absolutely.
They get to that later on
Safe for advertisers? I get ads for literal sex games regularly on UA-cam.
Every accusation by the right is a confession.
2:39 - The "I was young and dumb" excuse only works when "young" means "my teens" and "dumb" means "20 years ago."
Buddy, this was your 30s, which ended only 3 years ago. Despite your behavior, you were still the definition of a full grown adult. You are not a different person.
Mike Johnson calling himself a Christian, while protecting a predator, is extraordinary hypocrisy.
They are only Christian for votes
Mike Johnson accusing drag queens of being PDFs when he had a whack-tracker on his son's phone is extraordinary hypocrisy.
Is extraordinarily on brand unfortunately
It's actually so Christian he could get a top level function in the Vatican.
Mike Johnson, the Preacher, telling us how to live, while he covers this up. A DISGRACE
Geez, how hard is it to just… not commit crimes?!
People with that much money think they can get away with it. Sadly, they can.
To just not commit crimes? According to government officials, wealthy individuals, and even social media influencers, it's simply impossible to not do horrible things.
About as hard not to do drugs.
What crimes?
Feds looked at it and found the allegations not credible. And if the Feds thought they could have sunk Gaetz, they'd have done it.
for conservatives, this is an impossibility.
audibly laughed at "allow him to throw glitter in the air" - such a good analogy!
Not that the channel was missing anything before but Liz really brings some great energy to it. Hearing her for the first time from the 'Trumps Nominees' video. I laughed alot at her style of describing this clown show. Please keep her going forward.
Can't believe he may have been the attorney general
Definitely nothing to do with upholding justice per se, total compromise.
I mean, it's trump that appoints the AG so it doesn't surprise me in the least
can we bring back the Jackson insult of Kitchen Cabinet for bad appointees
Not american what is the rôle of an attorney général ?
@lucienarcos-palma3834 Basically, the AG is the highest authority lawyer in the country who serves on the president's personal cabinet and weigs in on laws and other legal matters.
This is the most basic cursory explanation and honestly explains little. But it works for the discussion.
There shouldn't even BE an option for this kind of report to be withheld from the public. If your position is literally one which, by definition, is a public servant then reports on your criminal behavior being withheld from that very same public is absolutely nonsensical. If there is an ongoing legal investigation and names or identities need to be redacted, fine, there is a mechanism for that sort of thing. But there absolutely should not be any possibility of just "we're not telling" with this shit.
Liz is such a wonderful presenter. Pleasant voice, perfect pacing and a joy to listen to.
Trump and Musk knew all of this information and stood at the mountain tops screaming "HE'S OUR GUY"
Keep your families safe and keep kids away from Trump supporters.
Absolutely
I have grown up spending a good time around Pensacola and knew in my heart that his family (a big deal there) had shut the state case down, but the sheer gravity of all this staggers me.
When a politician can do things like this and have a well-paying career, with fame afterwards, the world is in a bad way. It's so far past the point of common decency, it's as if that no longer exists without political strings attached, it's sad.
I always knew you had a good channel but your recent content on these disturbing events is what pushed me to subscribe
Matt Gaetz should have paid Aileen Cannon to block the release of Ethics Committee report. Hasn't he learned anything from Donald Trump?
She was busy, how much legal precedent can you expect someone to ignore in a day?
The clip of Tucker and Gaetz is wild. I don't understand how Tucker manages to sit completely stock still looking like a 90+ year old person looking at an iPad held at arm's length while dude is telling him that he had dinner with him and his wife and brought a sex worker with him. Also how did they find two dudes with enough forehead to make at least 4 normal looking people between them.
Because Tucker is a pdf too. It's not hard to see.
Because Tucker is a propagandist on behalf of whoever is willing to bankroll him, in the little time he sat still like that, he probably made more money than most americans make in months, possibly years.
Clip cut at the part where Tuck showed first signs of Alzheimers mixed with pledging the fifth.
Interesting that the Republicans were so willing to bury this when he was in the running for Attorney General.
They’re complicit
Several leading republicans outright threatening to quit if this was revealed.
I'm pretty sure the only reason why this report was released is because he's a fantastically terrible politician and burned bridges with too many of his own party. If he had just shut up for 5 minutes he would absolutely have been the next USAG
This is crazier than anything movie writers could make 😭
Amidst all of the drugs, prostitution, yachts, drugs, fraud, Tucker Carlson interviews, and prostitution… when the fk does this guy actually even DO HIS JOB?
“Public servant”…
Cocaine is a helluva drug
Welllll, he goes visitin' tax collector's offices out of hours, just checkin' how the operations go down, right? "So this licence right here, it's trash, yeah? Can I have it, for a keepsake?"
Easy answer: he didn't. Unless you consider his job to be "making a spectacle of himself".
16 year old minor who was turning 17. She was not quite 17 at the time.
What was her date of birth?
So in Florida you can, as a congressman, ship and buy drugs illegal for any other American, but not here; transport woman and pay them for sexual “favors”, and personally be involved in a illegal ID fraud. Only in America 🤦🏻♂️
Not “only in America”, you should see what less developed countries get up to
@ that’s the irony. We’re watching this unfold in front of us and still nobody is doing anything about it. We have the most insane corruption in America. No contest.
@aguywithalotofopinions412 we're not talking about other countries. Yeah there's shitty politicians everywhere, but America has a knack for installing politicians with extraordinarily brazen and outlandish disregard for the justice system. How about we address the mountains of issues here without trying to deflect the blow by saying "oH bUt oTHeR cOuNtRiEs aRe WoRSe", as if that makes any of this okay.
Why aren't all ethics reports available to the public?
Wait, if Gaetz was known to show pictures and videos of his sex adventures in Congress why didn’t anyone do something?? That’s a very not ok thing to do, it doesn’t matter if it’s just a one night stand or your partner
That part sounds really fake to me
Like do what? Tell him to be nicer? Lol
@@Swatotasticin a work place it can fall under sexual harassment rules (and even some employment law) to be shown such material without your consent, and if it involves a minor is outright illegal in state and fed legislation. Why should congress be treated differently in that respect?
That was literally part of the ethics committee investigation. They received complaints of him doing this in Congress .
@ good, I didn’t know that
What sucks is that he probably won't be held accountable
Probably?!
Of course not. Rich people don't pay for crimes.
@ateamfan42 Actually, they do, just with money and not accountability
@@ateamfan42 - No, they pay to for crimes charges to be dropped. Unless they're paying for someone else to do the dirty work. unless you're FDJT, in which case you just don't pay your employees.
neo-aristocracy moment
A "lower class" person would have been rotting in jail a long time ago. I hate this. In monarchies, there at least wasn't any pretense of everyone being equal in front of the law. There's so much corruption in politics, everyone knows it, and almost nothing every happens.
Now what will happen to Gaetz? A slap on the wrist from daddy, and not exactly the political office he wanted? I don't even want to know, all this is just making me angry.
Yeah :/ and the police are gonna keep protecting them while they do all of this.
"Lower class person" no no no. persons with less money. We all have more class.
Thank you, Ms. Dye. Concise, articulate, and informative. Would you consider running for Congress?
I'm in Missouri and from my understanding, if someone asks "do you party" they are asking if you do drugs.
Yes. That is universal.
Yep I'm not even from the US and that is pretty standard everywhere.
Neighboring state and that's also what I've understood it means.
You mean they're not asking me to play Mario party with them? 🤯
I'm tired of The USA discrepancies and doble standards on blue collar criminals and common civilian criminals!
Blue collar refers to people who do trades like plumbers or electricians. I think you're thinking of white collar criminals.
I mean, we are talking about a country that elected a felon to be president. No one is really surprised here. It's a clown show that succeeded at making us hate each other and be distracted from their corruption. Our whole government is 100% toast, man. I've given up on it a long time ago.
Preach! I tried not to do the same, but I think it's time to write this whole thing off too. I'm cynical enough to expect a degree of corruption in politicians. Even a high degree, but THIS is ridiculous. These people can probably commit murder with justifiably no fear of consequences. It's some real "banana republic-" type stuff...
You are correct. The country has died. Just the stench of decomposition in the air now.
I have a strange theory that the plan is to collapse the country, each time he says the plan is to take it away so that the others are forced to come up with a solution. He has said this for health tax and economy
Thanks!
Damn, I'm more secretive about my venmo history than this guy and the sleaziest thing I pay for is tamales from a cart that might not have a business license.
But are they good tamales?
@@PhotonBeastalways have been bro
@@PhotonBeast they absolutely are
We need to keep talking about him lol.
Trump: "I've never heard of him"
Just like he never heard of Tony who btw will probably speak at his inauguration XD.
He never heard of Project 2025, but somehow disagreed with elements of it and then put half its authors in the Cabinet.
Who does Gaetz think he is, a Supreme Court Justice?
It is important to the ruling class that the workers understand that they are powerless. The point of flaunting power and influence is to demoralize any opposition.
2:30 “icky” doesn’t really sum it up. How about “disgusting”, “degenerate”, or in specific cases, “criminal”. The man child should be in prison.
And remember how 0 republican stood against him before and after the Ethic committie report.
Seeing Gaetz and Carlson on screen at the same time gave me a hemorrhoid.
Hearing their two voices together would probably put me in the ICU for a year....
Hopefully you'll grow out of this behavior
@@ItsMichaelDavis Pity you have zero sense of humor. But full points on the faux outrage.
😂😂😂
@@ItsMichaelDavis why should one hope to grow out of being repulsed by repulsive people?
Shameful that Florida still hasn’t done anything 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
The fact that OAN hasn't fired him yet says everything about that company.
The fact he fought so hard to keep it from coming out told us all he was guilty.
I know this isn't crucial in a legal sense, but the last lines shown at 17:06 is just...heartbreaking.
"I think about it all the time...I still see him when I turn on the TV and there's nothing anyone can do. It's frustrating to know I lived a reality that he denies"
thats regret, totally different than abuse. Keep in mind these women were actively on sugar daddy sites looking for this type of behaviour. Not absolving these men, but there is accountability to be had on both sides. And that 17 year old admitted to soliciting Greenberg to make he the license she eventually got, that allowed her to prove her age to the site.
@@husher5142 it's not victim blaming, its victim "sharing culpability for the abuse". Totally different
Her regret(s) of her choice(s) is not abuse.
@@husher5142 yikes bro
@@husher5142 you're assuming these women were on the site consensually and not put in a position that coerced them in the first place. Not saying that's what happened but you can't be sure it didn't. Just because someone does something does not mean they're totally consenting. This is day one sex trafficking stuff.
That was an excellent report by Liz. A great summary of a very complex case in 20 minutes or so. She must be a lawyer or something! Great channel with content that is most important for all of us to be aware. Thank you for your work.
no justice in America if you have money and connections.
Unfortunately that's pretty much every country throughout human civilization. The only reason powerful people see justice for their actions is if it benifits some other powerful person.
I just want our government officials to be normal and do their jobs. I think that’s what most Americans want. Why does it have to be like this?
Because millions of political activists, including some _very_ deep pockets, don't want government officials to be normal and do their jobs.
You elect way too many positions that are government employees in the rest of the world. Who the eff thinks electing tax collectors is a good idea because of the conflict of interest it generates? Only America.
@@col.hertford9855 That is a good point. To be clear, most states do NOT elect tax collectors. Just one or two states that bought into the paranoid myth that tax collectors are inherently an army of oppression.
Our system is built for the corrupt
3:10 - "Very young woman" ... call her a child, she's was a child
I just want to say… LegalEagle and co. are doing the lords work. ❤
I am very grateful that you are more explicit in what you believe. There were way too many media illiterate people who dishonestly co-opted your content back before you started doing this
“This is obviously before he got married”
No bro. As a Floridian who just got out of service over seas, nothing about this was obvious. Except maybe after watching C-SPAN and seeing that people on the house floor have about as much decorum as a classroom full of high school students, based on how often they are told to quiet down and take their conversations outside. Our representatives are out of control. I’m stepping up. Gabriel Quade Petersen for President 2032.
what’s ur platform/policies bro
Now he has the time he needs to enjoy the local high school prom. Happy for him.
Who else is going to bring the ecstasy and alcohol?