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2024-12-29 Government Corruption
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Pelosi's 'House Ethics Committee' Caught in Multiple Staggering Lies in Gaetz Report
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 [Western Journal] Former Rep. Matt Gaetz is just that — a former representative.
That made the release of an investigation by the House Ethics Committee into his professional and private life — begun during former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 117th Congress — highly unusual. The interest of the House Ethics Committee is generally into the ethics of sitting members.
Moreover, the position that Gaetz resigned to pursue — attorney general of the United States — is one he’s no longer pursuing due to the fact that some of the contents of that report had already been revealed long ago and he didn’t have the votes to get confirmed by the Senate, report or no report.
Gaetz has now moved into the land of cable news punditry, with a new show on One America News television network. If he’s likely to pursue any sort of career in politics in the future, it seems unlikely he’d re-transition into the world of elected or confirmed public officialdom. As the old "Simpsons" meme goes, "Stop! Stop! He’s already dead!"
That being said, it’s worth examining the Gaetz ethics report — something the media is loath to do, inasmuch as they’ve reported on the findings as if the former Florida representative’s resignation and attorney general recusal is a prima facie admission that everything in it is true.
One of the few people who’s been following this story — and not taking everything in the report at face value — is Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist, who’s noted several issues with the report.
The latest? At least one of the people mentioned in the report, a friend of Gaetz’s, has demanded corrections from the House Ethics Committee for mentions of him in the report which he says are erroneous.
The letter was first reported by Marc Caputo of NeverTrump outlet The Bulwark, but Hemingway noted how it dovetailed with numerous other issues with the report.
“At the outset, I’ll note the release of your committee’s report is bizarre, Congressman Gaetz is no longer subject to your jurisdiction, and the precedential effect of the release of this report cannot be overstated,” a lawyer for Chris Dorworth, the man mentioned, wrote in a letter to House Ethics Committee chair Rep. Michael Guest, a Mississippi Republican.
The letter went on to list “three demonstrably false statements within your report” regarding Dorworth.
The first involved a mention that “Mr. Dorworth believed that Representative Gaetz invited people to his home on the evening of July 15, 2017.” This evening was critical, inasmuch as the most problematic allegation in the report — that Gaetz paid to have sex with a minor — happened on that night at Dorworth’s home.
“No, Mr. Dorworth did not and has never believed that Representative Gaetz invited people to his house on July 15, 2017,” the letter stated.
“To support your claim that Gaetz ‘invited’ people to my client’s home, you cite, in footnote 97, a gate log that doesn’t include Gaetz’s name on it and reference an affidavit and deposition transcripts that say nothing about Gaetz inviting anyone to my client’s home.” [Emphasis theirs.]
Furthermore, the letter stated, “Mr. Dorworth’s deposition transcript does not support this statement in your report, and it should be retracted immediately.”
Again, this basically undermines the most serious allegation completely, inasmuch as the Ethics Committee’s report relies upon Dorworth’s memories of that evening and the fact that he lived in a complex where “non-residents are required to present a driver’s license before entering, and entry records are maintained.”
If those entry records don’t have Gaetz’s name on them, they were either 1) tampered with, or 2) the preponderance of the evidence regarding the allegation shifts radically.
The second discrepancy also involves that allegation, noting that “Mr. Dorworth was deposed and confronted with cell phone records showing that he was in fact at his residence during the party.”
“As an attendee at Mr. Dorworth’s deposition, I can assure you he was never ‘confronted with any cell phone records,” adding that the records “were deemed ‘Attorneys Eyes Only’ at the time of Mr. Dorworth’s deposition” and that he was “mortified that the Committee on Ethics would include such a ridiculous conclusion” in its report.
The third alleged discrepancy, later in the same paragraph: “The Committee requested, through counsel, that Mr. Dorworth clarify his testimony regarding his whereabouts on the evening of July 15, 2017; his counsel did not respond.”
His counsel, being the author of this letter, noted that he did, saying he emailed the staff on Sept. 6 of this year.
“Interesting. The House ‘Ethics’ Committee is caught here just flat out lying about three things in its report on Matt Gaetz. (In addition to all the other alleged falsehoods),” Hemingway noted in an X repost of the letter:
Again, it’s difficult to overstate how damning serious mistakes in this part of the report would be, particularly given the decision to release it absent any real reason to do so; without substantial evidence that Gaetz paid to have sex with a minor, what you have is essentially a log of someone’s alleged substance use disorder and/or dysfunctional sex life the better part of a decade ago.
And again, this isn’t the only issue with the report. As Hemingway noted in a November article, “the same two central witnesses the House Ethics Committee has relied on for its critical report of Gaetz” are the two witnesses whose credibility issues led the Department of Justice to drop its investigation of Gaetz in 2022.
One is a former tax assessor who agreed to plead guilty to charges that included “sex trafficking of a child, aggravated identity theft and wire fraud,” according to The Washington Post, in exchange for “substantial assistance” in building cases against other people.
He’s currently in prison for those charges. The other is the woman who was allegedly the minor Gaetz paid for sex; the Post said her “testimony has issues that veteran prosecutors feel would not pass muster with a jury.”
Let me reiterate: Joe Biden’s Department of Justice thought this case wouldn’t fly based on the believability of the witnesses central to the House Ethics Committee’s report. If the Biden DOJ wouldn’t go ahead with the public crucifixion of a Trump ally, it generally has to be really bad.
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