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Tucker Carlson's insurrectionist and anti-vaxxer rhetoric has killed people, but when a local confronts him while he's shopping to tell him he's “the worst human being in the world,” he says in hushed tones that his daughter is nearby.

So?

How many people's families have his lies affected, and he wants a safe zone where people aren't supposed to tell him off? He'll no doubt spin this as being about personal safety, yet notice he touches the guy first, a way of trying to get the guy to touch him and escalate things so he can cry victim:

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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), the smug right-winger who has adhered himself to Trump and the anti-masker movement — and whose relationship with a 20-year-old Cuban boy he calls his son has been the subject of much mirth — has been revealed to be the subject of an ongoing Justice Department inquiry over alleged sex with an underage girl.

The New York Times reports the investigation has been underway since Trump was in office.

It is thought the DOJ could charge Gaetz with a variety of serious crimes for allegedly paying the 17-year-old girl to travel with him for sex.

Even worse for Gaetz, the investigation started with an associate of his, also accused of child sex trafficking.

Gaetz has done himself no good with statements so far, including this one:

I only know that it has to do with women. I have a suspicion that someone is trying to recategorize my generosity to ex-girlfriends as something more untoward.

He then did a live interview with Tucker Carlson — and seemed to implicate Carlson in the mess:

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