Everything posted in the my quote is tracked and verified....a paper trail....Gaetz has multiple witnesses that we're deemed unreliable, which means their stories were not consistent...or collaborated...s smear campaign is made up and based on sketchy info..not freaking trackable payments....keep swinging slugger
Not really the case.
I spelled it out earlier when the Trumpers were defending his appointment and denying his/this history.
Gaetz had some legitimate businesses/investments with a guy who also ran a child sex/prostitution ring. that same guy was found guilty for child sex/prostitutions, and is currently in jail. Gaetz was brought up in that court case as one of the clients of said ring, including the allegations of it being a minor. he defended by saying any of his payments were for legit business deals and the guy was using him to launder money or that Gaetz was just defrauded. however evidence came out, pictures and some email/text exchanges where Gaetz is very clearly asking for sex, and alluding to minors, and the "witness" who is questionable was actually the victim. Gaetz argued these were just hook ups and the coinciding payments were just coincidences for other business actions that were legit. so he wasn't paying the ring leader FOR SEX; he was just paying the ring leader, while getting the sex for free as a consensual "hook up".
she was deemed unreliable by the Florida AG, who also had some indirect connections with both Gaetz and the guy running the ring. some of the people who donate money to him were on the ring leaders list of business interests. but again "only for legit business". not disputed, but never looked into.
anyway the witness who was deemed unreliable by the AG, was a victim of sex trafficking herself, not disputed. and she was forced, beaten, to go out and "recruit". meaning everything from straight up hiring/paying, to drugging, extortion, and other dirty methods the ring leader forced her to use. this is also not disputed. she had sex with Gaetz as a minor. this is not disputed. That Gaetz knew she was a minor is disputed, but there were those text exchanges from before that make it questionable, at the least, that he didn't know she was a minor.
what was "questionable" and got thrown out is if Gaetz sexual relationship with the girl/victim was one of mutual consent as pseudo business partners, vs if it was straight up statutory rape.
the argument for the dismissal was that she was one of the "ring leaders" simply because she also went out and recruited other women, including minors; and not just a victim. It was a questionable ruling by Gaetz Florida AG budy and just seemed like the swamp protecting the swamp.
what ended up getting the ring leader thrown in jail was the FBI getting involved and tax evasion/fraud. because it sounds like there were previous attempts to jail the POS but those cases just never made it to the courts under that same Florida AG.