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McCain said a growing trend of salacious stories about men and sex in politics makes her angry and amounts to a violation for all women, no matter the context.
Gaetz has also been accused of showing fellow members pictures of naked women on his phone while on the House floor, something McCain called particularly disgusting. And for whatever journalists are reporting that, please tell me the men that saw that and thought it was both hilarious and appropriate, she said, before offering a prediction for what might happen next in the Gaetz scandal. The most likely scenario is that Matt Gaetz slept with a 17-year-old and sex trafficked her and he s probably gonna go to jail, McCain said. There s also this really weird group of people who always hung out at Mar-a-Lago in the Trump years and clearly Matt Gaetz and his teenage girlfriends were allegedly those people as well.
Washington scandal cycles are predictable, and sex is especially potent in politics, Gaetz wrote in an editorial published Monday in the Washington Examiner. Let me first remind everyone that I am a representative in Congress, not a monk, and certainly not a criminal.
The congressman from the Florida Panhandle said late last week that he does not intend to resign despite a federal investigation into whether he paid women and a 17-year-old girl for sexual favors. Gaetz has denied he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old.
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The controversy has raised questions about whether Gaetz will leave Congress, with GOP colleagues saying his days as a lawmaker could be numbered.