12/24/24: Matt Gaetz report out, the MAGA culture war cash grab
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- The Matt Gaetz ethics report is out and it concludes that Gaetz committed statutory rape and paid a teenager for sex
-- Former Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz panics over the publication of his ethics report and sues to try to stop the release
-- President Joe Biden commutes 37 federal death sentences, equivalent to more than 92% of all sentences
-- Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to hone her political instincts and communication skills
-- Growing confusion within MAGA about whether they are supposed to follow and support Donald Trump or Elon Musk's opinions on issues
-- The Elon Musk plan to pay for his tax cut by cutting Social Security and Medicare
-- A deep dive into the MAGA culture war cash grab
-- An exploration of why red states struggle in every area compared to blue states, on average
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, everybody. |
| 0:09.0 | It does seem that just in time to ruin Christmas for him. |
| 0:14.0 | Matt Gates all of a sudden is suing to try to stop the release of the ethics report into the things he did, but it's too late. |
| 0:23.6 | It has been released, and it points to statutory rape. |
| 0:28.6 | It points to paying underage girls for sex. |
| 0:33.6 | It points to a guy who is all of a sudden going from the MAGA darling poised to be the |
| 0:41.2 | attorney general of the United States and bring hell upon the political enemies of Donald |
| 0:47.1 | Trump and like that. |
| 0:49.4 | He drops out from consideration because he wasn't going to get confirmed. |
| 0:54.0 | And now the ethics report. |
| 0:56.1 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 0:57.3 | Look at this. |
| 0:58.4 | The House Ethics Committee report has revealed that Matt Gates, former Republican congressman, |
| 1:06.7 | paid numerous women, including a 17-year- old girl for sex, bought and used illegal drugs, |
| 1:15.6 | including in his office on Capitol Hill. You know, the drugs thing, it's less of a moral |
| 1:20.9 | judgment, but it's again, the do as I say, not as I do as he was a social conservative, |
| 1:26.9 | a family man, pro values, and all of this |
| 1:29.4 | crap. |
| 1:30.1 | And of course, he was doing the legal drugs in his Capitol Hill office. |
| 1:33.4 | The committee determined that there is substantial evidence that Gates violated house rules |
| 1:41.7 | and other standards of conduct, which number one, prohibit prostitution, |
| 1:47.3 | prohibit statutory rape, prohibit illicit drug use, prohibit impermissible gifts, special favors |
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