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Matt Gaetz Hit With Disturbing New Drug-Fueled Teen Sex Allegations

A late-night court filing made Thursday in Florida alleges that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) attended a “drug-fueled sex party” in 2017 with a 17-year-old girl who is part of a sex trafficking investigation, according to Jose Pagliery of NOTUS.

“The minor, who was a junior in high school at the time, arrived in her mother’s car for a July 15, 2017, party at the Florida home of Chris Dorworth, a lobbyist and friend of Gaetz’s, according to a court filing written by defense attorneys who interviewed witnesses as part of an ongoing civil lawsuit Dorworth brought in 2023.”

Gaetz allegedly engaged in the use of illegal drugs and sex with a minor, both of which are felonies in Florida.

“The discovery taken in this case to date reflects that on Saturday, July 15, 2017 … Dorworth, hosted a party at his residence … with the following guests present: (1) A.B.; (2) K.M.; (3) B.G.; (4) Matt Gaetz,” lawyers wrote in the filing, also listing several others. The defense lawyers filed testimonies from those three women — who the attorneys say placed Gaetz at Dorworth’s house that night — under seal pending a judge’s approval to make the records public.

Gaetz has repeatedly denied engaging in any illegal behavior, telling former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in 2021, “The person doesn’t exist. I have not had a relationship with a 17-year-old. That is totally false.”

However, this latest testimony suggests that Gaetz has been lying all along, with phone records undercutting his claims of innocence, Pagliery notes.

The defense lawyers also relied on Dorworth’s geolocated cell phone records, which showed that he communicated constantly with the congressman that day.The defense’s court filings show a hired digital forensic examiner identified Gaetz’s number, which has a Florida panhandle 850 area code and texted back and forth 30 times that day and then called Dorworth twice in the hours before the evening revelry. “B.G., another attendee at that party, confirmed A.B.’s testimony under penalty of perjury,” defense lawyers wrote.

Rather than comment on the latest allegations against him, Gaetz has been railing on podcasts and social media about what he calls “five assassination teams targeting Trump.” However, he has yet to provide a shred of evidence to bolster those claims.

Sounds like it’s about time for the Department of Justice to open a new criminal investigation of Matt Gaetz. He needs to be held accountable if he played any role in these parties.

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JD Vance Blasted As The ‘KKK Whisperer’ For Refusing To Condemn Racist Remark From Laura Loomer

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance has once again managed to step into a controversy that is getting him blasted on social media as the “KKK whisperer” and could do further damage to the GOP ticket.

NBC News asked Vance about remarks made recently by right-wing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who wrote on Twitter/X that if Kamala Harris is elected president, the White House “will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center.”

According to journalist John Harwood, Vance refused to condemn Loomer and her disgusting comment, instead suggesting that he preferred fried chicken.

“Whether you’re eating curry at your dinner table or fried chicken, things have gotten more expensive thanks to her policies,” Vance said.

Vance’s cowardice set off a wave of ridicule and revulsion, with some commenters suggesting he’s just as bigoted as Loomer.

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Trump’s Effort To Get Out The Vote In Battleground States Is Failing Miserably

When the 2024 election is over and we look back at what led to the outcome, don’t be surprised if voter turnout in several key battleground states winds up being the determining factor. It certainly was in 2020, when President Joe Biden won a popular and electoral victory over disgraced former president Donald Trump.

While the Trump campaign has pledged to increase its efforts to get voters to the polls in November, their actions appear to be the ultimate case of too little too late, according to a revealing article from The Guardian.

Months before Biden dropped out of the race and Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee, the Republican National Committee (RNC) made a splashy pledge to open 90 offices around the country, but they are nowhere near that number and appear to have outsourced voter turnout efforts to other GOP-aligned organizations that don’t have access to the sort of money or volunteers being raised by the RNC.

“The Trump campaign has put fewer resources into its ground game in battleground states, according to people familiar with the matter — and Republican officials have derisively said the Trump operation is more comparable in size to a midterm cycle than a presidential.”

Just how badly outnumbered and outworked is the Trump campaign compared to the efforts underway by Democrats? Consider these numbers: The Trump 2024 campaign has 350 staffers in battleground campaign offices. In contrast, the Harris campaign has 375 staffers in Pennsylvania alone, which is considered a must-win battleground for any presidential candidate, especially since the current election may be as close or closer than 2020.

That’s not all the bad news for Trump and the GOP, as outside groups such as Turnout for America, Turning Point Action, America First Works, and Elon Musk’s America PAC are only now starting to hire staffers. Early voting starts in some states as soon as mid-September, which suggests any last-minute voter turnout efforts by Republicans and their surrogates are likely to be a waste of time.

As usual, it appears that Trump is a day late and a dollar short. That’s not surprising when you consider that he’s been a failure his entire life and only succeeds at grifting and lying.

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Republicans Terrified Trump Will Come Across ‘Like A Lab Rat Hitting The Cocaine’ At Tuesday’s Debate

Which version of convicted felon and former president Donald Trump will show up for Tuesday’s debate in Philadelphia? Will it be the one that easily won a debate with President Joe Biden in June, or will it be the undisciplined, enraged Trump who showed up for an impromptu “press conference” on Friday?

According to Republicans who spoke with Politico, an enraged and frantic Trump could doom himself and the GOP if he decides to channel his inner Mussolini and vent his spleen against Vice President Kamala Harris.

Tricia McLaughlin, who was a senior advisor to Vivek Ramaswamy, notes, “I think — I pray — he can be disciplined,” adding that if Trump feels both Harris and the moderators are against him, things could get very ugly.

“If Trump feels like he’s backed into a corner and feels like it’s three on one, that could be a problem.”

A close Trump ally who spoke confidentially suggested the disgraced ex-president has less to lose than Harris.

“Most voters have a locked-in view of Trump, so it’s not like his performance will radically change views. He just needs to not be overly aggressive and create a permission structure for swing voters fed up with the economy and the border to vote for him. The debate is far more consequential for Kamala Harris because voters don’t have a solidified view of her yet.”

Republican consultant Rob Stutzman said he’s terrified of how Trump will come across with millions of eyes on him.

“Harris will want to make personality the issue, which is hard for him to resist, but it will be a bad night for him if he falls back on hurling absurd insults at Harris.”

“She can deliver a set piece in a debate,” he continued. “Will he be able to resist taking the bait? Doubt it. He’ll more likely be like a lab rat hitting the cocaine pan instead of the food pan.”

In other words, Trump needs to be disciplined and keep himself under control. But considering that he doesn’t excel at either of those things, expect the coked-out lab rat exposing his teeth and screaming about being persecuted to be on full display.

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Social Media Erupts With Mockery After Bizarre Video Of JD Vance ‘Laughing’ Like The Joker Surfaces

It’s not an exaggeration to say that Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate, is a very strange person. He’s downright weird, and so are many of the things he’s said over the years about denying women the right to control their bodies and how men need to be more “alpha” if the United States is to survive as a superpower.

Vance often comes across as little more than an animatronic wax figure trying to pass himself off as a human being and failing miserably.

But a video making the rounds on social media is drawing new mockery of Vance for his so-called “laughing” during a campaign speech, with many noting that he sounds like Jack Nicholson as the Joker in the 1989 film, “Batman.”

Here’s the Vance video, which has been trending on Twitter/X over the past few days and currently has 181,000 views:

Now take a look at Nicholson at the end of the aforementioned movie.

As many commenters noted, Vance has crossed the line from weird and entered the bizarro world.