Reporters Who Uncovered Gaetz Scandal STUNNED That He Isn't Being Charged

The reporters who uncovered the Matt Gaetz investigation and subsequently published a plethora of evidence against him said that they were "stunned" about the DOJ's decision to NOT prosecute him. Joel Greenberg's lawyer has also expressed outrage at the decision considering the evidence that Greenberg provided against Gaetz, and the whole country is wondering just what the hell happened. Farron Cousins tries to make sense of this idioitic decision.

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By now, of course, everybody knows that the DOJ made the decision official this past week that they are not going to be indicting Matt Gates. Very disappointing, enraging, actually, I'm, I am furious. Um, but I also understand I can do nothing about it. You can do nothing about it. It is what it is. We gotta redirect our anger. We're allowed to feel the anger and, you know, who's feeling angrier than just about anybody else in the country right now? All of the reporters who uncovered all of the Venmo payments, the literal receipts that Matt Gates had acquired during this scandal, reporters for both the New York Times, and of course the Daily Beast. New York Times initially broke the story about the investigation, but the reporters over at The Daily Beast were the ones who uncovered so much of this stuff and really put it in the public spotlight.

And those reporters are and rightfully so. Let me read some of the things here. You had, uh, Jose Gli, who's a, uh, political investigations reporter for The Daily Beast. He said, quote, feds had a confession letter, private Venmo's Uber receipts flight records, yet they still won't prosecute Congressman Matt Gates. This is all the more stunning, because Roger Sullenberger and I were the ones who exposed the evidence, and yes, you know, obviously we've all talked about the Venmo receipts, the other receipts, everything like that. But let's also not forget, like he mentioned the confession letter from frigging Joel Greenberg. Here's what Greenberg said in the confession letter. On more than one occasion, this individual was involved talking about Matt Gaetz in sexual activities with several of other girls, the congressman from Florida's first congressional district and myself. From time to time, gas money or gifts, rent or partial tuition payments were made to several of these girls, including the individual who was not yet 18.

I did see the acts occur firsthand and Venmo transactions, cash app or other payments were made to these girls on behalf of the congressmen that's in Joel Greenberg's confession letter. We also have to take into account the fact that Matt Gates did ask for a presidential pardon. So these reporters are rightfully off, like they uncovered all of this, and they're like, what are you doing? There's more. Um, this is from Matt Fuller who's the DC Bureau Chief for the Daily Beast. He said, quote, I've seen just a fraction of the evidence that the DOJ has seen, and it's truly difficult to comprehend this decision. Roger Sullenberger, he had this to say, we revealed a lot of evidence against Gates, including Venmos, and a pardon letter Greenberg wrote to Donald Trump directly implicating Gates. That's the confession letter. DOJ also seized his phone in, in its obstruction probe, but declined to bring charges reportedly citing possible problematic witnesses. Given what we've seen, the decision not to charge, gates seems pretty effing remarkable,

And it is, but it also is what it is. We, we can't, we can't do anything about it. Even Joel Greenberg, you know, Matt Gaetz's wingman, even his lawyer, Fritz Sheller, has come out and expressed his disbelief, and sheller has even more evidence. I mean, basically everything the DOJ has sheller has seen these reporters admit, like, we haven't even seen it all, but what we've seen should have been enough to secure a conviction. Sheller has seen it all, and Sheller says, this is basically an abomination. The DOJ needs to send it back down to the, you know, Florida district investigators and let them handle it because they're actually capable of doing it. So when you've got all the people who've seen most or all of the evidence saying this is ridiculous, like, why is he not being prosecuted? It's a pretty good indicator that, yeah, Matt Gates probably did it, but we'll never know now because unless the DOJ is gonna send it back down to the Florida court system, which I doubt, then it's over.

It's done. There is nothing we can do. There's nothing we can do. And that's the worst feeling out of all of this. We're helpless, we're stuck. I'm stuck with this guy is my congressman for however long he wants to continue to run.