Trump supporters that believe in QAnon, individuals who sympathize with posts by the anonymous figure “Q,” who believe there is a global child trafficking ring run by Democratic Satanists and people in Hollywood for sadistic pedophilia or to harvest a chemical compound found in blood called adrenochrome, might want to take a good look at Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) activities. The QAnon crowd thinks that Donald Trump will save the children. Still, the Florida Republican, a close ally of the twice-impeached one-term president, paid a criminal defense attorney $25,00 as he faced a sex trafficking investigation, Business Insider reports.
“Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz’s congressional campaign paid $25,000 in June for “legal consulting” fees to a Manhattan criminal defense attorney, new campaign finance records show,” the outlet reports.
And he sounds like a super guy.
“Gaetz’s latest filing shows that he paid the sum to attorney Marc Fernich, who lists among his “notable clients” the accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, and convicted crime family boss John “Junior” Gotti,” Insider reports.
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“The legal payments from Gaetz’s campaign came after reports surfaced in late March that the third-term congressman was under investigation for sex trafficking,” the report continues. “The New York Times reported that the Justice Department was investigating whether Gaetz had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him. Gaetz has denied any wrongdoing.”
It certainly sounds like Gaetz knows he’s in a lot of trouble.
Fernich’s practice, according to his website, “centers on criminal defense, mainly sophisticated appeals and legal motions that can toss charges at the trial level or pave the way for future appeals.”
According to the outlet, Gaetz’s campaign also spent $25,000 for “legal consulting” from the law firm Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, the filings show, and paid $825,000 to the Logan Circle Group for advertising and “strategic campaign consulting” between April 8 and May 14.
According to what Politico reported in April, Harlan Hill’s — the president of the DC-based Logan Circle Group and an ally of former President Donald Trump — colleagues at the firm threatened at least two reporters with lawsuits over their coverage of Gaetz, and that doesn’t seem suspicious at all. Go get him, QAnon!
You can read Insider’s full report here.
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