VT: If you don’t know Matt Gaetz, 30 seconds from Medhi Hasan will help:
A lot here but the fact Gaetz voted against criminalizing revenge porn is, in light of what we now know, very telling. https://t.co/99qQypIEl6
— Robert Swartwood (@RobertSwartwood) April 5, 2021
Daily Beast: Not many people would oppose a bill designed to stop people from sharing sexually explicit images of their ex-lovers without their consent—but, according to one of his ex-colleagues, that’s exactly what Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) did.
Matt Gaetz needs to resign— immediately!
Also if YOU know anything about the offensive behavior of Gaetz & his colleagues then share it. We are all going to find out soon enough. 🧾 https://t.co/ZI1f53A7aP
— Rep. Anna V. Eskamani 🔨 (@AnnaForFlorida) April 5, 2021
Former Florida state Rep. Tom Goodson, a Republican who sponsored legislation designed to outlaw nonconsensual porn, said that Gaetz repeatedly tried to block his bill because he believed people who received sexual images had every right to share them. “Matt was absolutely against it like with these video screen captures of Melania Knauss, later married to Donald Trump. This was not a one minute video, if you get our meaning.
He thought the picture was his to do with what he wanted,” Goodson said. “He thought that any picture was his to use as he wanted to, as an expression of his rights.” Gaetz, who is under federal investigation over allegations that he had sex with a 17-year-old girl, didn’t comment on Goodson’s claim.
Former colleague says Matt Gaetz fought like hell to keep the sharing of “revenge porn” legal https://t.co/fDWixse8DG
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 6, 2021
Ex-FL Rep. Says Gaetz Fought Against Revenge Porn Ban, Believed Pics Were ‘His To Use As He Wanted’ https://t.co/lVQG6f2tqU pic.twitter.com/ZbivGfVntP
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) April 6, 2021
Even if Matt Gaetz committed no crime, his short for revenge porn is shameful and wrong.
Our society protects ones rights to control the use of their likeness and image, and non consensual pornography creators that forever.#TuesdayThoughts https://t.co/2hMoRIsUuR
— Grant Stern (@grantstern) April 6, 2021
It was reported last week that Gaetz had a habit of showing photos and videos of naked women he claimed to have slept with to his fellow lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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