You know how you do really dumb stuff as a kid, but then you grow up after learning right from wrong? Well, Rep. Matt Gaetz has never gone through that process, according to his former classmates. Robin Bravender, writing for Business Insider, spoke to 21 of the MAGA Congressman’s high-school classmates, and the outcome was predictable.
The Republican congressman is being investigated for sex trafficking by the Department of Justice. Gaetz was known for showing off nude pictures of women he’d been with, and that he and other Republicans in the Florida Legislature played a game in which they earned points for sleeping with women, earning extra points if they have sex with a virgin.
Apparently, Gaetz has always been this way.
“Insider interviewed 21 of Gaetz’s former classmates this month, including alumni from his Niceville High School graduating class of 2000 and members of Gaetz’s high-school debate team,” the outlet reports. “Several say they have known Gaetz since childhood, and some still live in his congressional district at the end of the Florida Panhandle. His classmates have been texting one another and posting memes on Facebook as they’ve watched and read the stream of updates about Gaetz’s sex scandal on national news. “Honestly, it was ‘What are they going to dig up next?” said one female high-school classmate who spoke with Insider on condition of anonymity.”
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Erin Scot, a former friend of the Florida Congressman’s, was at a friend’s wedding rehearsal dinner in 2009, the outlet reports, “when her old pal from high school, Matt Gaetz, pulled out his phone to show a group of friends a picture of a woman. Scot was surprised.” The photo was “definitely sexual,” Scot told the outlet.
“I feel like she was on a bed and maybe as she’s looking at the camera like on all fours,” Scot said, adding that it felt inappropriate for Gaetz to be showing off the photo to a group of friends on the deck of a Destin, Florida, rental house. The photo, she added, depicted “a private moment.”
“In general, it’s like he always kind of wanted, regardless of whether it was a sexual conquest or any other sort of achievement, he was very big on letting you know that he did it,” Scot told Insider.
She’s called Gaetz’s out before.
“While the rest of us grew up, Gaetz stayed the same. He may have gotten his law degree and put on a suit and tie, but behind all that, he’s still the same guy who takes out his cell phone to show friends naked pictures of the women he’s recently bedded,” she wrote in a blog post in 2010.
You can read the full report here.
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