Matt Gaetz Gets Absolutely Ruined by All-Time Community Note: ‘He Had Sex With a 17-Year-Old’

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Matt Gaetz, the former Florida congressman and short-lived attorney general nominee-turned One America News Network host, suffered a brutal put-down at the hands of the X community over the weekend.

Gaetz’s trouble began when he responded to a tweet from Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), which asserted that: “If your ‘conservatism’ flirts with antisemitism, it’s not conservatism. We’re defenders of truth, not blind tribalism. You can’t save Western Civilization while echoing its oldest hatreds.”

“If your ‘conservatism’ flirts with interventionism, it’s not conservatism. We are defenders of America, not globalism. You can’t save Western Civilization while echoing the lies of [Benjamin] Netanyahu,” wrote Gaetz in a quote-tweet.

Crenshaw fired back: “If your ‘conservatism ‘flirts with underage girls it’s not conservatism.”

Gaetz insisted that Crenshaw was repeating a falsehood, and — without evidence — submitted that he was being paid $7,000 to make social media posts in support of Israel.

“Rep Crenshaw — unable to defend his policy views — resorts to a debunked smear. Get that $7k bro…,” he wrote.

Unfortunately for Gaetz, the Community Note now attached to that post corrects the record.

“Claims aren’t debunked. A bipartisan House Ethics Committee found ‘substantial evidence’ that Gaetz paid for sex and that he had sex with a 17-year-old in 2017. The committee lost jurisdiction to sanction Gaetz after he left the House, but published its findings anyway,” reads the Community Note.

Gaetz resigned from Congress in an effort to avoid having the Ethics Committee report released after then President-elect Donald Trump announced that Gaetz would be his nominee to lead the Department of Justice, but the committee released it anyway last December.

The report alleged that Gaetz “regularly paid women for engaging in sexual activity with him,” including a “17-year-old girl” who was “under the influence of ecstasy” at the time.

The committee also found that “nearly every woman” it spoke with “could not remember the details of at least one or more of the events they attended with Representative Gaetz and attributed that to drug or alcohol consumption.”

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