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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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This has been developing for some time, but Madonna's ex, the model and sometimes actor Tony Ward, is now fully devoted to the QAnon conspiracy theory, posting about imaginary child-sex cults, decrying COVID-19 as a hoax and more.

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Tonight, Tucker Carlson shamelessly sympathized with Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, who has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder for his actions in Kenosha last night.

Carlson said:

How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?

This line of attack — that Democratic-run states and cities are a hellscape where anything goes and where white people are in danger (I believe Rittenhouse killed white people, albeit marching for BLM ...) — has bee used over and over at the RNC, and will likely be the most used (and effective?) gambit of Trump's closing as we barrel toward the November election.

Carlson should be fired.

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