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A federal judge sentenced a former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a> tax collector to 11 years in prison on Thursday for sex trafficking a 17-year-old female and other criminal offenses.
Joel Greenberg, a former Seminole County tax collector, was accused of several crimes, including stalking a political opponent, public corruption, creating fake licenses, and plotting to submit false claims for a federal loan.
Greenberg pleaded guilty to six federal crimes, including identity theft, stalking, wire fraud, and conspiracy to bribe a public official.
“Nothing justifies my actions,” Greenberg said before U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell in an Orlando courtroom, according to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/crime-arrests-florida-congress-government-and-politics-d657eda08a857f4c0a07d293bb109308" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Associated Press</a>. “My conduct is so shameful. I feel remorse for what I’ve done.”
Greenberg further issued a list of apologies in court — to the minor, the people of Seminole County, and his parents, children, and ex-wife.
“I deserve punishment no matter how long that may be,” he said, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/01/us/politics/matt-gaetz-confidant-greenberg-sentence.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
The New York Times reported that Greenberg initially faced up to 30 years in prison for several crimes, including trafficking a 17-year-old girl, stalking a political rival, and stealing $400,000 in taxpayer money to buy cryptocurrencies and sports memorabilia.
However, federal authorities reduced his sentence in exchange for cooperation with the government, which led to investigations of 24 people, including eight for sex crimes.
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who had ties with Greenberg, was probed by federal investigators after allegations were made that he paid for sex with a minor in violation of federal sex trafficking laws.
Gaetz has repeatedly denied the allegations, claiming they were part of an extortion plot from “people at the Department of Justice.”
Sources familiar with the investigation of Gaetz reported last month that prosecutors informed their superiors that they would not be pursuing charges against the representative in connection with a sex-trafficking investigation that has been ongoing since 2020.
Prosecutors argued that the charges would be dropped because Greenberg and another central witness in the case have questionable credibility.
Greenberg, a former associate of Gaetz, allegedly tried to smear the Republican congressman, similar to other accusations he made against politicians.
Judge Presnell said, “He has provided substantial cooperation to the government — more than I’ve seen in 22 years.”
“In 22 years, I’ve never experienced a case like this,” Judge Presnell said. “I have never seen a defendant who has committed so many different types of crimes in such a short period.”
Defense attorney Fritz Scheller said Greenberg’s cooperation brought four federal indictments, with more expected to come soon.
Scheller also reportedly requested to the judge that Greenberg only get a portion of the sentencing, arguing that his client had changed since committing the crimes.
“Mr. Greenberg was using money and sex to get access to political circles,” Scheller said. “He came from a dark place, a lack of self-worth, and tried to ingratiate himself with a collection of people.”
U.S. Attorney Roger B. Handberg for the Middle District of Florida described Greenberg as a “hardened criminal who never did the job he was elected to,” according to The New York Times.
“He was not deterred when he found himself under criminal investigation,” Handberg said, according to The New York Times. “He was not deterred when he was brought into this building.”

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Rep. Matt Gaetz was once all in on Team Trump, but after the former president&#8217;s dismal showing in the mid-term elections, the Florida Republican canceled his plans to attend Trump&#8217;s launch of his 2024 campaign Tuesday night.
Gaetz sees the writing on the wall: The king is dead, long live the king. And he also understands that Republicans will have a thin margin in the House, so if they want to get anything done, they&#8217;ll need some help from Democrats.
In a pre-emptive move, Gaetz <a href="https://twitter.com/repmattgaetz/status/1592286771517083648" target="_blank" rel="noopener">laid out</a> a series of moves that he says should get bipartisan support &#8212; and they were so common sense and basic that he drew praise from some unlikely places, like the liberal site Reddit.
&#8220;I believe that no member of Congress by House rule should be allowed to accept a donation for their campaign from a federal lobbyist or a federal political action committee. That money all has strings attached to it and anybody who tries to tell you otherwise is lying,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;And when members take hundreds of thousands of dollars from lobbyists and PACs, they work for them more than they work for their constituents. And guess what? I intend to offer that amendment on the House floor in January, and I already have Democrats ready to vote for it, maybe even all of them,&#8221; Gaetz said.
Exactly right. Gaetz already doesn&#8217;t take PAC money, but it should clearly be the law of the land for exactly the reasons Gatez laid out.
&#8220;The second thing I would suggest is that if someone is a member of Congress, they should be prohibited from lobbying for life. Why is it so hard to say that you should choose one side or the other to be on? You&#8217;re either in the lawmaking game or you&#8217;re in the influence-peddling game, and those who choose to be in the influence peddling game, go ahead, but you should sacrifice that when you get the privilege to represent 750,000 people,&#8221; he said.
Gaetz said he plans to offer that as amendment on January 3, adding he expects &#8220;there will be Democrats voting for it.&#8221;
The 40-year-old lawmaker, now in his fourth term, hit another hot-button that both Republicans and Democrats could (and really should) support.
&#8220;I will also introduce an amendment to have a ban on members of Congress trading individual stocks. How can we say that that is not something that dilutes our trust in markets and in governance when people are centrally able to bet on the outcomes that they have an ability to somewhat control?&#8221;
Hmm. Good question. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a maximum net wealth of as much as $251 million, according to USA Today. Here&#8217;s the thing: Her and her husband&#8217;s fortune has grown $140 million since 2008, thanks in part to her husband’s stock trades.
But Gaetz wasn&#8217;t done. &#8220;Finally, I would observe something that has really worked well in the state of Florida. A single subject rule, a bill coming to the floor should only deal with one subject. I was incensed as a freshman when I had to vote on the farm bill, and whether or not to authorize war in Yemen, in the same vote, and we could still have broad bills that relate to insurance or education or appropriations.&#8221;
&#8220;But the notion that we lash all these things together, does not serve our constituents and the American people and I would expect if we&#8217;re in the majority, Democrats will vote for my amendment for a single subject rule,&#8221; he said.
Spot on. That&#8217;s how both parties deride the other. A bill labelled &#8220;Protect All Furry Puppies&#8221; (PAFP), with a poison-pill attachment, gets shot down, and one party then says the other party hates puppies. It&#8217;s so stupid you&#8217;d think it didn&#8217;t happen, but it does, all the time.
Gaetz&#8217;s common-sense words brought tears to the eyes of liberals on <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/yviu2n/heartbreaking_the_worst_person_you_know_makes_a/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reddit</a>.
&#8220;I’m watching this video baffled like this guy has a good head on his shoulders, but then I see the face the words are coming out of and I’m just broken like Xbox with a red ring,&#8221; a guy named &#8220;RLVNTone&#8221; wrote.
&#8220;MankeyBusiness&#8221; weighed in, too.
&#8220;He himself is the only Republican who takes no PAC money (if I understand it correctly). He might be wrong about everything else but if him [sic] and the dems get this through in January (very low chance even if dems had a majority) I will give him heaps of praise for that. Money in politics is the number one thing keeping popular policy like minimum wage increase from passing.&#8221;
So, you&#8217;re on notice. Gaetz is onto something. Whether it works, whether it plays out like he pledges remains to be seen. But he&#8217;s ahead of the Democrats on issues they care about, and that, at the very least, is fun.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Independent journalist <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/glenn-greenwald/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Glenn Greenwald</a> unloaded on the Democratic Party over the weekend, calling them out as authoritarians who did not just want to win, they wanted to criminalize their opposition.
Greenwald began by responding to a tweet from The Prospect managing editor Ryan Cooper, who had complained about the fact that prosecutors had recommended not to indict Rep. <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/matt-gaetz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Gaetz</a> (R-FL) in relation to a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/prosecutors-likely-wont-charge-rep-matt-gaetz-in-sex-trafficking-investigation-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sex-trafficking probe</a>.
&#8220;Chickens*** club,&#8221; Cooper tweeted.
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chickenshit club <a href="https://t.co/yx3iYnhGAY">https://t.co/yx3iYnhGAY</a>
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Greenwald pointed out that Cooper had not even delved into the possible reasons prosecutors had decided the way they did, tweeting, &#8220;This is a perfect illustration of how authoritarian so many Democrats are. This Democrat doesn&#8217;t know or care why career DOJ prosecutors decided the evidence was insufficient to prosecute Matt Gaetz. What he knows is that Gaetz supports Trump and thus wants him imprisoned.&#8221;
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This is a perfect illustration of how authoritarian so many Democrats are.
This Democrat doesn&#39;t know or care why career DOJ prosecutors decided the evidence was insufficient to prosecute Matt Gaetz.
What he knows is that Gaetz supports Trump, and thus wants him imprisoned: <a href="https://t.co/OvBKO9Sbau">https://t.co/OvBKO9Sbau</a>
&mdash; Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1573711325137616897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I can&#8217;t stress this enough: at its core, Democratic politics is about criminalizing opposition to their party and ideology,&#8221; Greenwald continued in a second tweet. &#8220;Dissenting ideas are &#8216;disinformation&#8217; and must be censored by Big Tech. Trump voters are inherently criminal (&#8216;insurrectionists&#8217;) and should be imprisoned.&#8221;
&#8220;In Oct. 2021, we produced this video to assemble the mountain of polling data and other quantifiable evidence demonstrating how Democratic Party loyalists and liberal activists are now classic authoritarians. They are what they accuse others of being,&#8221; he concluded.
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In Oct. 2021, we produced this video to assemble the mountain of polling data and other quantifiable evidence demonstrating how Democratic Party loyalists and liberal activists are now classic authoritarians. They are what they accuse others of being:<a href="https://t.co/YihjSNPgJn">https://t.co/YihjSNPgJn</a>
&mdash; Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1573712216704126978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Greenwald has been sounding the alarm — against both Democrats and corporate media — for repeatedly choosing one narrative and stifling all others, usually to protect Democratic candidates or elected officials. He even went so far as to leave the outlet he co-founded —The Intercept — after being asked to <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/it-flipped-overnight-glenn-greenwald-points-to-the-one-moment-that-changed-the-pandemic-and-destroyed-trust-in-media/">whitewash an article</a> addressing the reversal of COVID messaging during the George Floyd protests of 2020.
&#8220;In June, I was drafting an article on this flagrantly politicized reversal of COVID messaging. When @theintercept editors learned this, they commissioned an article — for the same day — to argue racism, not COVID, was the greatest health crisis, so everyone *should* go protest,&#8221; he explained.
After leaving The Intercept, Greenwald said the outlet had also censored his articles about Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden, and the president’s past dealings with China and Ukraine.

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Career prosecutors have recommended against filing sex-trafficking charges against Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/matt-gaetz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Gaetz</a> (R-FL).
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/23/gaetz-no-charges-sex-trafficking/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Friday, citing anonymous sources &#8220;familiar with the matter,&#8221; that prosecutors informed their superiors they would not be pursuing charges against Gaetz, in connection with a sex-trafficking investigation that has been ongoing since 2020. The prosecutors said that securing a conviction in the case would be unlikely, in part because two central witnesses in the case have questionable credibility. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/23/politics/matt-gaetz-justice-department-probe/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> and <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/23/charges-unlikely-against-gaetz-in-federal-sex-trafficking-probe-00058617">Politico</a> confirmed the report, citing their own sources.
The first witness at issue was a young woman whom Gaetz allegedly paid for sex in violation of federal sex trafficking laws. According to The Washington Post, the woman was allegedly involved with Gaetz years ago, when she was 17 years old. Investigators were looking into whether he paid the girl for sex, a claim which Gaetz repeatedly denied. She was also present on a trip Gaetz allegedly took to the Bahamas in 2018, but she was already 18 years old or older by then, the Post reported.
The second witness is Joel Greenberg, a then-friend of Gaetz and a former tax collector in Seminole County, Florida. In 2020, Greenberg was investigated and charged with fabricating allegations and evidence to smear a political opponent, but prosecutors charged him with additional crimes, more than 30 in total. In exchange for his cooperation with investigators, he secured a plea bargain in which prosecutors dismissed 27 of the charges filed against him and recommended a reduced prison term.
Greenberg pleaded guilty to six criminal charges, including sex trafficking of a minor, aggravated identity theft, and wire fraud. During the investigation into Greenberg, prosecutors discovered evidence that potentially implicated Gaetz in sex trafficking; investigators sought to determine whether Greenberg paid women to have sex with Gaetz and whether the two shared sexual partners, including the 17-year-old girl.
Prosecutors said that Greenberg&#8217;s testimony would be spurious because he admitted to fabricating allegations against a political opponent; in a race for tax collector, Greenberg accused his opponent, a schoolteacher, of having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student, a strikingly similar allegation to that of Gaetz. Prosecutors also said that the woman&#8217;s testimony would not pass muster under jury scrutiny. While senior officials at the Department of Justice have not made a final decision on whether to file charges against Gaetz, the Post&#8217;s sources said that it is rare for them not to follow the advice of prosecutors. That could change as well if new evidence emerges, the sources said.
A spokesman for the Justice Department declined to comment, as did Gaetz&#8217;s lawyer. But a spokesman for Gaetz&#8217;s office did respond to news reports. &#8220;Those who told lies about Rep. Matt Gaetz are going to prison, and Rep. Matt Gaetz is going back to Congress to continue fighting for America,&#8221; the spokesman told CNN.
Gaetz did not comment personally, but on his <a href="https://twitter.com/mattgaetz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal Twitter account</a>, he retweeted a tweet from journalist and podcaster Tim Pool calling the investigation &#8220;an extortion scheme against Matt Gaetz&#8217;s family.&#8221;
Gaetz announced in an interview with Axios that he was under federal investigation in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-rep-matt-gaetz-says-doj-investigating-him-for-sexual-misconduct" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 2021</a>, as The Daily Wire reported at the time. “The allegations against me are as searing as they are false,” Gaetz said. “I believe that there are people at the Department of Justice who are trying to criminalize my sexual conduct, you know when I was a single guy.”

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/matt-gaetz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Gaetz</a> (R-FL) called for bombing Mexico Wednesday afternoon over the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fentanyl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fentanyl</a> crisis that is killing tens of thousands of Americans every year.
Gaetz made the call for bombing Sinaloa, Mexico, home of the notorious Sinaloa drug cartel, on Twitter in response to remarks that he made during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday.
&#8220;There has been discussion today of fentanyl. And it irks me every time I hear someone talk about fentanyl overdoses because no one overdoses on fentanyl because I don&#8217;t think anybody really sets out to, like, score some fentanyl for a good time,&#8221; Gaetz said. &#8220;I get why it&#8217;s hard to keep cocaine from coming into the country. People in the United States like using cocaine, they seek it out, they pay high dollar amounts for it. And so that would be something hard to stop. But since people don&#8217;t set out to use fentanyl, since it&#8217;s something we don&#8217;t want in our country, we should be totally capable of stopping it.&#8221;
&#8220;And the only reason we aren&#8217;t is because we purposefully allow our border to degrade, not by accident, not because of some lack of capability or some unsolvable problem set,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But because there are some groups on the Right and Left who think that they will do better economically if we just let millions of people into the country and depress the wages of Americans, and the cost they&#8217;re willing to pay for that are the funerals and the deaths and the broken lives as a result of fentanyl poisoning. Because it is not an overdose. It is a poisoning that happens.&#8221;
Gaetz highlighted the clip on Twitter, <a href="https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1572673870880186368" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writing</a>: &#8220;Bomb Sinaloa. Not kidding.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMattGaetz</a> exposes the truth behind the deadly fentanyl crisis in America and calls out those responsible. <a href="https://t.co/v9aOk4LFqc">https://t.co/v9aOk4LFqc</a> <a href="https://t.co/rhoUDsbApV">pic.twitter.com/rhoUDsbApV</a>
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<blockquote>REP. MATT GAETZ (R-FL) There has been discussion today of fentanyl. And it irks me every time I hear someone talk about fentanyl overdoses because no one overdoses on fentanyl because I don&#8217;t think anybody really sets out to, like, score some fentanyl for a good time. I get why it&#8217;s hard to keep cocaine from coming into the country. People in the United States like using cocaine, they seek it out, they pay high dollar amounts for it. And so that would be something hard to stop. But since people don&#8217;t set out to use fentanyl, since it&#8217;s something we don&#8217;t want in our country, we should be totally capable of stopping it. And the only reason we aren&#8217;t is because we purposefully allow our border to degrade, not by accident, not because of some lack of capability or some unsolvable problem set. But because there are some groups on the Right and Left who think that they will do better economically if we just let millions of people into the country and depress the wages of Americans, and the cost they&#8217;re willing to pay for that are the funerals and the deaths and the broken lives as a result of fentanyl poisoning. Because it is not an overdose. It is a poisoning that happens.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dea-issues-warning-over-emerging-trend-of-rainbow-fentanyl-across-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DEA Issues Warning Over ‘Emerging Trend’ Of Rainbow Fentanyl Across U.S.</a>

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A Florida businessman has been sentenced to five years in prison plus three years supervised release after he pleaded guilty last year to wire fraud.
Stephen Alford, 62, was sentenced to 63 months in jail followed by three years supervised release, according to federal court documents <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/23/florida-man-5-years-plot-to-extort-matt-gaetz-father-00053261">reviewed</a> by Politico. Alford was accused of attempting to extort millions of dollars from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and his father, Don Gaetz, by claiming he could get the congressman a presidential pardon.
The younger Gaetz is currently under federal investigation for allegedly paying a minor for sex. Gaetz has repeatedly denied the allegations.
Alford allegedly approached Gaetz and his father after somehow learning that the Department of Justice (DOJ) was looking into Gaetz before The New York Times publicly reported on the investigation. Don Gaetz, a former Florida Senate president, received a text message asking to discuss the investigation of his son. The elder Gaetz met with the sender the next day, and was given a letter outlining what would happen. The letter suggested that if the Gaetzes provided millions of dollars to locate and rescue Robert A. Levinson, an American hostage in Iran, then President Joe Biden would “strongly consider” giving Rep. Gaetz a pardon or even stop the DOJ from investigating the congressman altogether.
Alford himself met with Don Gaetz that same day, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/23/matt-gaetz-father-extortion-investigation/">reported</a>, giving more details of the plan and saying it could be done for $25 million. Within the next few days, Alford promised to send evidence that Levinson was still alive, saying Rep. Gaetz would become a hero if the hostage ended up getting home safe.
Don Gaetz was interviewed by the FBI about his contact with Alford, and wore a recording device to get Alford on tape. Alford later admitted to investigators that he had lied about getting Rep. Gaetz a pardon.
The investigation into Rep. Gaetz came from one into Joel Greenberg, a former county tax commissioner in Florida who is a close friend of Gaetz. In May 2021, Greenberg pleaded guilty to six charges, including knowingly soliciting and paying a minor for sex. In exchange for his guilty plea, Greenberg agreed to provide investigators with “substantial assistance” to build cases against others, including Rep. Gaetz, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/16/politics/joel-greenberg-sentencing-delayed/index.html">reported</a>.
Greenberg reportedly told investigators that he and Gaetz had provided women with cash or gifts in exchange for sex. One of Gaetz’s ex-girlfriends also testified before a grand jury earlier this year, and Florida radio host Joseph “Big Joe” Ellicott provided information about the allegations against Gaetz after he pleaded guilty to a separate bribery charge.
Even though the investigation against Gaetz was publicly reported in March 2021, the congressman has not been charged with any crimes. Last year, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-for-months-reported-on-matt-gaetz-investigation-without-evidence-gaetzs-claims-of-extortion-were-just-corroborated-however">five months after</a> the investigation was reported, journalist Glenn Greenwald explained that “leaking the existence of investigations without charges is a crime for a reason: destroys reputations with no chance of defense.”
“This was a favorite tactic of corrupt Brazilian prosecutors: they’d leak investigations and accusations to corporate media outlets, which would trumpet them, but never charge the person, thus destroying their enemies’ reputations with no need to ever prove the case in court,” Greenwald added.

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WASHINGTON — Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/matt-gaetz">Matt Gaetz</a> (R-FL) plans to introduce an amendment Wednesday reinstating armed service members who were dismissed for refusing the COVID vaccine.
When the House Armed Services Committee marks up the National Defense Authorization Act, Gaetz will introduce an amendment protecting armed service members who refuse to get the COVID vaccine, reinstating members who were dismissed over their refusal at the same rank and grade, and providing back pay and benefits to the members who were dismissed.
&#8220;I see the impact on our readiness from these mandates,&#8221; he said during a Tuesday afternoon phone interview with The Daily Wire. &#8220;We are hundreds of pilots short in the Air Force and and we&#8217;ve lost a number of pilots as a consequence of these mandates.&#8221;
The Florida Republican expressed frustration to The Daily Wire that the opposition to his amendments does not merely come from Democrats, warning that the leading Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, Mike Rogers (R-AL), has expressed public support for the military vaccine mandate.
&#8220;I hope that number reaches 100% quickly,&#8221; <a href="https://republicans-armedservices.house.gov/news/press-releases/rogers-statement-covid-19-vaccinations-members-military">said Rogers</a> of the number of vaccinated service members in August 2021.
&#8220;That is not my view,&#8221; Gaetz said of Rogers&#8217; remarks, &#8220;and I doubt that&#8217;s the view of a majority of Republicans.&#8221;
As of late May, the Army had discharged at least 742 active-duty soldiers for refusing to get vaccinated, <a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/05/27/number-of-soldiers-booted-vaccine-refusal-doubled-last-month.html">Military.com reported,</a> noting that the number had more than doubled since the previous month.
The publication reported that 3,416 general officer reprimands, widely seen as &#8220;career killers in the military,&#8221; had also been given out to soldiers who refused the vaccine, and the Army had only granted nine out of 4,428 religious exemption applications.
&#8220;These are kitchen table issues in my district because I represent the district that has the highest concentration of active duty military in the country,&#8221; Gaetz explained, emphasizing that after Afghanistan, mental health and &#8220;a sense of self-worth&#8221; among many active duty military and veterans has deteriorated.
&#8220;I saw that in higher call volumes to our veterans service organizations,&#8221; Gaetz said. &#8220;This has compounded that malaise and frustration in our ranks because people feel like they didn&#8217;t have any agency in how the military that they&#8217;ve given their lives to is making decisions.&#8221;
Many of the service members who submitted religious exemption requests got back blanket form letter rejections, the congressman said.
&#8220;That violates the law,&#8221; Gaetz insisted. &#8220;Each exemption is entitled to an individual review, and our service members were denied that opportunity with these blanket form letter rejections.&#8221;
&#8220;Our military is not stronger today as a consequence of these vaccine mandate separations,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It&#8217;s weaker.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-defense">Department of Defense</a> did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire addressing how many service members had been discharged for failing to get vaccinated, as well as how many religious exemption requests have been filed and how many have been granted.
&#8220;We deserve a military that is apolitical and doesn&#8217;t cater to any ideology other than American success,&#8221; Gaetz said on Tuesday. &#8220;Unfortunately, we now have a military that embraces Critical Race Theory, that teaches socialism at the National War College, and it drives out patriotic Americans who are religious and faith based. Those features of the current military leadership are having a compounding negative effect on the fighting force and our nation&#8217;s readiness.&#8221;

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‘I See The Impact On Our Readiness’: Matt Gaetz Pushes To Reinstate Service Members Dismissed Over The COVID Vaccine

Gaetz Pushes Amendment Reinstating Military Members Dismissed For Refusing To Get Vaccinated

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WASHINGTON — Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is denying that she leaked audio to the New York Times of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) saying that he was considering telling former President Donald Trump to resign.
A Cheney spokesman told The Daily Wire on Friday morning that Cheney neither recorded nor leaked the tape of McCarthy and does not know how reporters obtained it, noting that the committee investigating the Capitol Riot has unsuccessfully asked McCarthy to discuss the matter.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/us/politics/trump-mitch-mcconnell-kevin-mccarthy.html">first reported Thursday morning</a> that McCarthy had contemplated calling on the president to resign, prompting McCarthy’s office to issue a flat denial of the story. But MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow aired an audio recording Thursday evening which cast doubt on the House minority leader’s claim.
The news prompted Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz to accuse Cheney of recording McCarthy “for the New York Times” on Friday morning, warning McCarthy, “You should have trusted my instincts, not your own.&#8221;
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While I was rallying in Wyoming against Liz Cheney…
Kevin McCarthy was defending Liz Cheney among House Republicans…
While Liz Cheney was secretly recording Kevin McCarthy for the New York Times. <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPLeader?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GOPLeader</a> &#8211; you should have trusted my instincts, not your own. <a href="https://t.co/teTxIvUAUt">pic.twitter.com/teTxIvUAUt</a>
&mdash; Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1517466701402718208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“While I was rallying in Wyoming against Liz Cheney…Kevin McCarthy was defending Liz Cheney among House Republicans,” he tweeted. “While Liz Cheney was secretly recording Kevin McCarthy for the New York Times.”
Gaetz did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.
“My gut tells me no,” McCarthy reportedly said during a private call with Republicans, responding to a question from Cheney about whether Trump would resign, <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/audio-contradicts-mccarthy-s-denial-that-he-said-he-would-recommend-that-trump-resign-138276933865?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma">according to audio aired on MSNBC</a>. “I am seriously thinking about having that conversation with him tonight. I haven’t talked to him in a couple days. From what I know of him, I mean you guys all know him, too, do you think he’d ever back away?
“We know it’ll pass the House, I think there’s a chance it’ll pass the senate even when he’s gone. And I think there’s a lot of different ramifications for that. … The only discussion I would have with him is I think this will pass, and it would be my recommendation that he should resign,” he continued, referring to the impeachment resolution.
“That would be my take, but I don’t think he would take it,” McCarthy said. “But I don’t know.”
Cheney was the number three House Republican leader at the time, though she is now an outspoken opponent of Trump.
McCarthy did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.
Before the audio was released, a McCarthy spokesperson told The New York Times that “McCarthy never said he’d call Trump to say he should resign.&#8221; McCarthy had also released his own statement calling the Times&#8217; reporting “totally false and wrong.”
“It comes as no surprise that the corporate media is obsessed with doing everything it can to further a liberal agenda,” McCarthy said. “This promotional book tour is no different. If the reporters were interested in truth why would they ask for comment after the book was printed?”

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Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) unloaded on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during Tuesday&#8217;s House Armed Services Committee hearing, saying he was &#8220;embarrassed&#8221; by the senior military official&#8217;s leadership.
Gaetz mentioned the requested military budget — some $773 billion — and suggested that perhaps that money ought to be used to take corrective actions after what he argued was a series of &#8220;blown calls&#8221; made by military leadership in recent months.
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BREAKING<a href="https://twitter.com/SecDef?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecDef</a>: &quot;The fact that you&#39;re embarrassed by your country. I’m sorry for that.&quot;
Gaetz: “I&#39;m embarrassed by YOUR leadership! I’m not embarrassed for my country. It&#39;s disgraceful that you would sit here &amp; conflate your failures with those of uniformed service members.” <a href="https://t.co/mUfRNbY8Rt">pic.twitter.com/mUfRNbY8Rt</a>
&mdash; Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1511381260983275530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You guys have been blowing a lot of calls lately on matters of strategy, Mr. Secretary. You guys told us that Russia couldn’t lose, you told us the Taliban couldn’t immediately win, and so I guess I’m wondering, what in the $773 billion that you’re requesting today is going to help you make assessments that are accurate in the face of so many blown calls?&#8221; Gaetz asked.
&#8220;You’ve seen what’s in our budget. You’ve seen how the budget matches the strategy and so I’ll let that speak for itself,&#8221; Austin replied.
Gaetz continued to push and Austin pushed back, as the two continued to talk over each other.
&#8220;We’re behind in hypersonics, we failed to deter Russia. Last year, China —&#8221; Gaetz added, and Austin interrupted to ask what Gaetz thought would be the best way to evaluate &#8220;hypersonics.&#8221;
&#8220;You’re own people brief us that we are behind and China is winning. Are you aware of the briefings we get on hypersonics?&#8221; Gaetz asked, prompting a visibly annoyed Austin to reply, &#8220;I’m certainly aware of briefings we give to Congress.&#8221;
Gaetz then pivoted to address the military&#8217;s recent focus on social issues, suggesting that woke culture was distracting from more important things like strategy, saying, &#8220;We got time to embrace Critical Race Theory at West Point, to embrace socialism at the National Defense University, to do mandatory pronoun training —&#8221;
&#8220;Again, this is the most capable, this is the most combat critical force in the world. It has been so, and it will be so going forward,&#8221; Austin pushed back, and Gaetz responded, &#8220;Not if we continue down this path. Not if we embrace socialism.&#8221;
“The fact that you’re embarrassed by your country? I’m sorry for that,&#8221; Austin said then, but Gaetz interrupted.
&#8220;I’m embarrassed by your leadership! I’m not embarrassed for my country,” he said. &#8220;I wish we were not losing to China &#8230; that is so disgraceful that you would sit here and conflate your failures with the failures of the uniformed service members.&#8221;
Gaetz turned his attention once more to what he said were the military leadership&#8217;s &#8220;blown calls,&#8221; concluding, &#8220;You guys said that Russia would overrun Ukraine in 36 days, you said the Taliban would be kept at bay for months, you totally blew those calls and maybe we would be better at them if the National Defense University actually worked a little more on strategy and a little less on wokeism.&#8221;

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‘I’m Embarrassed By Your Leadership!’: Matt Gaetz Gives Lloyd Austin An Earful Over Military’s ‘Wokeism’

Lloyd Austin

U.S. Military

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) introduced legislation on Tuesday, dubbed the “Spook Who Cried Wolf Resolution,” to bar security clearances for 51 intelligence officials who signed on to a letter in the fall of 2020 claiming that the story about Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop was part of a Russian disinformation operation.
Gaetz <a href="https://gaetz.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-matt-gaetz-introduces-resolution-strip-security-clearances-intel">said</a> in a press release:
<blockquote>On October 19, 2020, 51 former intelligence officials signed a letter titled, “Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails,” which claimed Hunter Biden’s emails were a part of a “Russian information operation.” Following the censorship of the New York Post’s exposé on the emails by Big Tech and media tycoons, the New York Times confirmed the legitimacy of the emails on March 17, 2022. As of March 22, 2022, 4 of the 51 signatories maintained their support for the erroneous letter.</blockquote>
&#8220;The 51 signatories of the letter who publicly and falsely decried Hunter Biden’s laptop to be Russian disinformation should be barred from holding any level of security clearances indefinitely,&#8221; Gaetz&#8217;s resolution <a href="https://gaetz.house.gov/sites/gaetz.house.gov/files/documents/The%20Spook%20Who%20Cried%20Wolf.pdf">states</a>.
The 51 intelligence officials who <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000">signed</a> the letter include:
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<li>Jim Clapper, Former Director of National Intelligence</li>
<li>Mike Hayden, Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Leon Panetta, Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>John Brennan, Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Thomas Finger, Former Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis</li>
<li>Rick Ledgett, Former Deputy Director, National Security Agency</li>
<li>John McLaughlin, Former Acting Director, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Michael Morell, Former Actng Director, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Mike Vickers, Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence</li>
<li>Doug Wise, Former Deputy Director, Defense Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Nick Rasmussen, Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center</li>
<li>Russ Travers, Former Acting Director, National Counterterrorism Center</li>
<li>Andy Liepman, Former Deputy Director, National Counterterrorism Center</li>
<li>John Moseman, Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Larry Pfeiffer, Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Jeremy Bash, Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Rodney Snyder, Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Glenn Gerstell, Former General Counsel, National Security Agency</li>
<li>David B. Buckley, Former Inspector General, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Nada Bakos, Former Analyst and Targeting Officer, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Patty Brandmaier, Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>James B. Bruce, Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>David Cariens, Former Intelligence Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Janice Cariens, Former Operational Support Officer, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Paul Kolbe, Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Peter Corsell, Former Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Brett Davis, Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Roger Zane George, Former National Intelligence Officer</li>
<li>Steven L. Hall, Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Kent Harrington, Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Don Hepburn, Former Senior National Security Executive</li>
<li>Timothy D. Kilbourn, Former Dean, Sherman Kent School of Intelligence Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Ron Marks, Former Officer, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Jonna Hiestand Mendez, Technical Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Emile Nakhleh, Former Director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Gerald A. O’Shea, Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>David Priess, Former Analyst and Manager, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Pam Purcilly, Former Deputy Director of Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Marc Polymeropoulos, Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Chris Savos, Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Officer</li>
<li>Nick Shapiro, Former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the Director, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>John Sipher, Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Stephen Slick, Former Senior Director for Intelligence Programs, National Security Council</li>
<li>Cynthia Strand, Former Deputy Assistant Director for Global Issues, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Greg Tarbell, Former Deputy Executive Director, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>David Terry, Former Chairman of the National Intelligence Collection Board</li>
<li>Greg Treverton, Former Chair, National Intelligence Council</li>
<li>John Tullius, Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>David A. Vanell, Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Winston Wiley, Former Director of Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency</li>
<li>Kristin Wood, Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency.</li>
</ol>

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Gaetz Pushes To Strip Security Clearances From Intel Officials Who Dismissed Hunter Biden Laptop Story

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MSNBC host Tiffany Cross laid into Illinois teenager Kyle Rittenhouse, calling him a &#8220;little murderous white supremacist&#8221; during her Saturday show, &#8220;The Cross Connection.&#8221;
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/sit-down-and-be-humble-msnbc-host-calls-megyn-kelly-racist-for-criticizing-meghan-markle-naomi-osaka/">Cross</a> devoted a good portion of the show to a lengthy conversation about <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/cnns-cuomo-kyle-rittenhouse-trial-verdict-was-justified-what-we-should-want-every-time/">Rittenhouse</a> — who shot three people during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August of 2020 and was acquitted Friday of all the charges against him.
Joining Cross in that conversation was The Nation&#8217;s legal correspondent Elie Mystal, who argued that Rittenhouse had only been <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/watch-kyle-rittenhouse-sobs-collapses-in-court-after-getting-acquitted-on-all-counts/">acquitted</a> because &#8220;the judge was in the tank from the defendant from the jump.&#8221;
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&#8220;This is not a miscarriage of justice, this is justice working as intended for white people. And the way you know that is because of the judge. The reason why I was able to predict that was because of the judge. The judge was in the tank [for] the defendant from the jump. I mean literally before the trial, he was making motions and making rulings in favor of Rittenhouse,&#8221; Mystal continued, adding, &#8220;His actual decision-making favored the defendant the entire time&#8221;
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/the-epitome-of-white-privilege-the-medias-worst-reactions-to-the-kyle-rittenhouse-trial/">Mystal</a> went on to argue that the justice system had been designed to be &#8220;permissive of white violence,&#8221; and that no progress would ever be made unless that bias was confronted and addressed. &#8220;Kyle Rittenhouse is just the latest beneficiary of that bias in the justice system,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;I’m just disgusted because I still don’t think that Rittenhouse understands that he is morally wrong if the justice system did not find him legally wrong,&#8221; Cross added, arguing that Rittenhouse needed to understand that the moral standard and the legal standard applied to his actions should not necessarily be the same.
Cross went on to note a short time later that several Republicans, including Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz and Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, had suggested Rittenhouse might make a good Congressional intern.
&#8220;I find these people disgusting, Elie. I’m disgusted at what I’m seeing. It’s not just this trial, it’s other trials, but this in particular: The fact that white supremacists roam the halls of Congress freely and celebrate this little murderous white supremacist, and the fact that he gets to walk the streets freely, it lets you know these people have access to instituting laws, they represent the legislative branch of this country. What are we to make of that?&#8221; Cross asked.
&#8220;Welcome to the modern Republican Party. This is what these people want,&#8221; Mystal replied, claiming that white people showed their support for white violence by voting for Republicans. &#8220;And this is what a majority of white people vote for. When I say that majority of white people are in favor of this kind of violence, it is because a majority of white people consistently vote Republican. Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, a majority of white people have voted Republican. So, like, this is the party that they are supporting.&#8221;
&#8220;A majority of white people pick judges like Bruce Schroeder, the judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse case. A majority of white people do not support policies that would unpack and unroll and reform this system of justice. This is what they want. Matt Gaetz is giving the white folks what they want,&#8221; Mystal continued. &#8220;Look at it. Look at yourselves. It’s gross. But until a majority of you stop voting for this, this will keep happening.&#8221;
&#8220;What these cases that we&#8217;re watching all have in common is white people deputizing themselves in some position of authority to have jurisdiction over their life when they need to mind their blanking business,&#8221; Cross agreed.

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MSNBC Host ‘Disgusted’ By Kenosha Verdict, Calls Rittenhouse A ‘Little Murderous White Supremacist’

Kyle Rittenhouse

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Tiffany Cross

White Supremacists

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) claimed on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday that President Joe Biden&#8217;s Department of Justice refused to arrest a man who allegedly threatened to kill Gaetz and who allegedly traveled to Washington, D.C.
&#8220;I thank the gentleman for yielding because I think someone may be trying to kill me,&#8221; Gaetz said. &#8220;And if they are successful, I would like my constituents and my family to know who stopped their arrest. Madam Speaker, on October 8, 2021, a Twitter handle, styled, CIA Bob is at your door, tweeted to @RepMattGaetz, &#8216;Looky here, pal. I lived in Portland. Portland has ordered a hit on you. I accepted the contract. Have a good day.’”
&#8220;Following this tweet, this individual traveled to Washington, D.C., and the Capitol Police recommended his arrest,&#8221; Gaetz continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s information that was just shared with me by the investigations and threat assessment section of the Protective Services Bureau, and specifically, George [last name], and George shared with me that the Capitol Police recommended the arrest of this individual and that the Department of Justice refused to do so, declined to do so.&#8221;
&#8220;And on the eve of the Attorney General testifying before the Judiciary Committee tomorrow, it is just yet another example of the Department of Justice having a double standard,&#8221; Gaetz added. &#8220;If my name weren&#8217;t Gaetz, if it were Omar or Tlaib, you bet this person would have been arrested because that&#8217;s what the Capitol Police recommended. But the Department of Justice doesn&#8217;t seem to care so much when it&#8217;s Republicans.&#8221;
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BREAKING: A man traveled across the country with the explicit goal of killing me in Washington, D.C. 
Capitol Police recommended arrest. They were blocked by DOJ. <a href="https://t.co/4nxMzJVycZ">https://t.co/4nxMzJVycZ</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZejSezYHOC">pic.twitter.com/ZejSezYHOC</a>
&mdash; Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1450956644616179717?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>REP. MATT GAETZ (R-FL): I thank the gentleman for yielding because I think someone may be trying to kill me. And if they are successful, I would like my constituents and my family to know who stopped their arrest. Madam Speaker, on October 8, 2021, a Twitter handle, styled, CIA Bob is at your door, tweeted to @RepMattGaetz, &#8216;Looky here, pal. I lived in Portland. Portland has ordered a hit on you. I accepted the contract. Have a good day.&#8217; Following this tweet, this individual traveled to Washington, D.C., and the Capitol Police recommended his arrest. That&#8217;s information that was just shared with me by the investigations and threat assessment section of the Protective Services Bureau, and specifically, George [last name], and George shared with me that the Capitol Police recommended the arrest of this individual and that the Department of Justice refused to do so, declined to do so. And on the eve of the Attorney General testifying before the Judiciary Committee tomorrow, it is just yet another example of the Department of Justice having a double standard. If my name weren&#8217;t Gaetz, if it were Omar or Tlaib, you bet this person would have been arrested because that&#8217;s what the Capitol Police recommended. But the Department of Justice doesn&#8217;t seem to care so much when it&#8217;s Republicans.</blockquote>

Biden’s DOJ Refused To Arrest Man Who Threatened To Kill Matt Gaetz And Traveled To D.C., Gaetz Claims

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