All posts tagged "Matt Gaetz"

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's wife is under fire from critics across the political spectrum after a report revealed who cut her checks last year.

Jennifer Hegseth, a former longtime Fox News producer, was paid for consulting work last year by Watchtower Strategy, a Trump-connected Washington firm that also did work for Lockheed Martin that same year, Politico's Daniel Lippman reported via a post on X Wednesday. The payments showed up on her husband's annual financial disclosure, though the amount she earned was not listed.

Watchtower launched in January 2025 and counts former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and several Republican operatives among its ranks, according to Politico. Jenniger Hegseth is also the daughter of a Lockheed Martin executive, and she joined her husband at meetings with GOP senators as he fought for confirmation....

President Donald Trump's former pick for attorney general and disgraced former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) might have sabotaged the president's strategy to try and take down his perceived enemy, former FBI Director James Comey, according to TMZ on Wednesday.

Trump had nominated Gaetz in 2025 for the top Justice Department job and something he wrote could come back to haunt the president as he launches his second attempt to indict Comey — this time over a photo of seashells that Comey shared on his Instagram that said "8647." He captioned it "Cool shell formation on my beach walk."

Trump's DOJ has claimed that the seashells and '86' were a threat and has charged Comey with threatening the president's life. But TMZ pointed to Webster's Dictionary, which calls the slang meaning "to throw out," "to get rid of," or "to refuse service to." The outlet also cited a former post from Gaetz that could poke holes in the DOJ's argument. ...

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) called out MAGA followers and President Donald Trump, ripping into the president's war in Iran and the people supporting it.

Gaetz spoke Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Texas when he made the statements distancing his views from the Trump administration and the MAGA base, The Daily Beast reported. And although he didn't directly criticize Trump, Gaetz took issue with those backing the military strikes.

"I come from the wing of the Republican Party that is only loyal to one nation, and that is the United States of America," Gaetz said....

Wichita Eager Editor Dion Lefler said when he first saw Reckoning Kansas’ December “election integrity” event announcement in his Facebook feed, his first reaction was “This can’t be real. It has to be a fake post from Democrats trying to discredit Kansas Republicans.”

“But I checked around and found that [disgraced Florida Rep. Matt] Gaetz himself is promoting his appearance and there is a website selling tickets — $50 for the main event and $200 for a ‘VIP package’ including ‘Exclusive post-event meet & greet with Matt Gaetz’ and ‘Photos with Matt Gaetz.’”

Lefler cited House Ethics Committee reports finding “substantial evidence” that from at least 2017 to 2020, then-Rep. Gaetz is alleged to have regularly paid women for engaging in sexual activity; that he reportedly engaged in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl in 2017; that during the period 2017 to 2019, Gaetz allegedly used or possessed illegal drugs including cocaine and ecstasy and that he accepted gifts — including transportation and lodging in connection with a 2018 trip to the Bahamas — in excess of permissible amounts....

Former U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) went public on Saturday with comments about antisemitic remarks published by his own producer.

Conservative political commentator James Lindsay on Friday highlighted the alleged comments first, writing, "OAN's Vish Burra, Matt Gaetz's scriptwriter and handler, has severely crossed the line now, calling Jews vermin, accusing them of 'scheming,' identifying them as cockroaches he's destroying in the name of 'America First' and 'America Only.'"

According to Lindsay, Burra quickly deleted the controversial post in question....

Reactions mounted Thursday after a woman sharing her story for the first time said that then-Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) sexually abused her when she was just 17, while she was living in a homeless shelter and trying to save money to buy braces to fix her teeth.

Laura B. Wolf, an attorney for the then-teenager and now-woman, spoke to The New York Times about the ordeal. Times journalists reached out to Wolf after a federal judge in Florida unsealed court documents that described the victim as "a then-homeless 17-year-old high schooler."

Wolf said her client was living with a parent in a homeless shelter and needed money when she falsely advertised herself as an 18-year-old on a "sugar daddy" dating website in 2017. ...