Did Gaetz Sell His House Vote? New Rant Demands Full Answer NOW

Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee had best get back in front of the cameras because he needs to either retract some of the things he said on Tuesday during a CNN interview or quickly get far more specific. Cohen spoke about his experience in the House with new Attorney General nominee Matt Gaetz and touched on some topics that now must get further aring- specifically, whether Gaetz put his House vote up for sale and was Gaetz ever bribed, willingly or unwillingly?

Cohen began with generalities, clearly somewhat afraid of the topic – here discussing whether Gaetz ever showed pictures of his sexual escapades on the House floor. As initially set out by Rawstory, Cohen stated: (Video below)

“He made some statements to me when he was a freshman that I found just kind of amazing and shocking, and I just had to look forward… We were in the committee room and I guess he thought he was a young guy and he was getting started, and and I sponsored a decriminalization of marijuana law, and he came up and he said something, and I just thought, ‘My god, I can’t believe he’s saying that to me.’ So it’s consistent, I’m not going to go into it, but it’s consistent with what he’s been charged with.”

We cannot be sure if Cohen wanted to be more specific but just got stuck but he is clearly uncomfortable, skipping right over what Gaetz actually said or did –  straight to “I can’t believe he’s saying that to me… ” Cohen then moved on to the main accusations against Gaetz but pay attention to how quickly Cohen tosses aside accusations of sex with an underage girl to move on to something even rarer and perhaps even more criminal:

“It’s really not from House speaker Mike Johnson, even though he has power. His power is, he’s just a conduit for the power that comes from Mar-a-Lago, and so that’s the fear is Trump. He’s the bad guy, and I don’t think they’ll release [the report] – I think [the committee vote] will be five-[to]-five. It won’t go out, but it should go out because the American public has a right to, they don’t have a right, but they they need to see it. They need to see who’s been nominated to be the top law enforcement officer in the country, and it would also be a teaching tool to the Congress people, including myself, I don’t know. It was talking about the salacious things, the sex and the 17-year-old and the drugs, and that’s wrong and bad and illegal and blah, blah blah.”

Just try to imagine what must be about to follow if the “Sex and drugs with a 17 year old girl” is now nothing more than blah blah details. What could possibly be lurking in the next phrase, left unspecified but clearly informed as to something:

“But there’s stuff in there about taking a bribe… I want to know what kind of, did he get $50 and vote for something or $500 or something else? That is kind of a quid pro quo deal. They said he used his congressional perquisites for people that was unauthorized. I don’t know what they mean. Did somebody vote for him? Did he give his voting card to somebody and they voted for him or what?Whatever he did, I don’t even understand from the charges, and then there’s some other things in there concerning using his campaign fund for personal expenses. Did he charge the the plays and the and the tickets to New York and the hotel room to his campaign, members representation allowance, which is illegal.”

Maybe it’s purely a matter of form because a massive campaign donation that leads someone to vote for a certain project leads to the same result but there is something very bare bones about the accusation above, a bribe, “selling his vote,” even dollar figures named, handing off his voting card? It is so ugly and bare – and one has to be really really careful because it arises next to the ugliest of bodily crimes. But the phrase, selling his vote card, is almost as shocking as sex with a girl and even more dangerous to this country’s future democracy if such a man were to become A.G..

Forget momentarily that Gaetz may have committed statutory rape and even trafficked underage children (If it’s even possible to forget, “blah blah”) the report must now be released in order to expose people who buy votes on the House floor. Cohen wouldn’t make the statement he did without knowledge of the bribes. If someone is going around buying up Congressional votes, the country deserves to know who it is.

It sounds like the report concludes who might have been engaged with Gaetz. Is it possible that the report hasn’t been released yet because it is protecting people who used Gaetz? Now we really need that investigation opened up. Who is buying who?

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