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Is There a Connection Between Sexual Misconduct and the GOP?

Mike Weisser
4 min readDec 24, 2024

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If the Democrats can’t use the House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz to show why the mid-terms need to return blue majorities on the Hill in order to control a President who actually believes that the head of national law enforcement should be in the hands of a sexual predator, then all bets are off for whether the Democrats should ever run the country again.

Remember a guy named Jeffrey Epstein who committed suicide in a New York City jail cell before facing charges of doing the exact, same thing that Matt Gaetz has evidently done? What I am referring to is a sexual encounter that Gaetz had with a 17-year-old girl who was a high school junior when she dilly-dallied with Gaetz in July 2017.

Gaetz’s sexual partner didn’t tell Gaetz that she was underage but he did give her $400 for her performance that evening, a payment which violated at least two Florida laws covering sex trafficking and prostitution, statutes which Gaetz may have violated with at least 15 other women who for the most part connected up with Gaetz through a website which clearly promoted the idea of women offering sexual favors in return for cash.

When confronted with the list of women who had cash liaisons with Gaetz, the then-Congressman accused the committee of trying to besmirch his name just because he had many…

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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