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Fox News GETS IMPLICATED in Trump CABINET SCANDAL

2024/11/20
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Key Insights

Why is Fox News being implicated in the Trump cabinet scandal?

Fox News is being implicated due to Matt Gaetz, a Trump cabinet pick, potentially using the network to shield himself from an ethics report and a trafficking investigation.

What is the significance of Matt Gaetz's 2021 interview regarding his potential role as Attorney General?

In the 2021 interview, Gaetz hinted at deeper connections and potential leverage over Fox News, suggesting a need for protection in exchange for information he might possess.

How does the issue of sexual assault allegations relate to Trump's cabinet picks?

38% of Trump's cabinet picks have faced accusations of sexual assault, indicating a pattern of such allegations within his administration.

What was Matt Gaetz's role in the House Judiciary Committee?

Matt Gaetz served on the House Judiciary Committee for eight years, showcasing his experience and involvement in legal matters.

What promise did Trump make regarding the Department of Justice?

Trump promised to root out corruption within the Department of Justice, which had allegedly been weaponized against the American people based on their political beliefs.

Chapters

This chapter delves into the allegations that Matt Gaetz took underage girls to Fox News studios in New York and implicates Fox News in the scandal.
  • Matt Gaetz allegedly flew underage girls to Fox News studios in New York.
  • Gaetz took these girls to Broadway plays like 'Pretty Woman'.
  • Gaetz implicated Tucker Carlson in his underage girl trafficking matter investigation.

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And remember what I said in a prior video, in moments of chaos, you'll find opportunity to expose Donald Trump and this mag of madness. We're seeing that right now with his appointment of Matt Gaetz as Attorney General. As the investigation into Matt Gaetz is being made more public through leaks, one of the things we are now learning per ABC is

is that Matt Gaetz would take the underage girls, get this, to Fox in New York. He would fly underage girls

to watch him do interviews at Fox, then he would take the young girls to Broadway plays like the play Pretty Woman about a businessman who falls in love with a prostitute. This is what ABC is reporting. Also, one of the lawyers for the girls who are the victims of Matt Gaetz was speaking out on CNN as well. Now,

Put this all together. Do you remember back? We reported on this then. Think about the links here. March 30th of 2021, when Tucker Carlson was still a host at Fox at that time. Remember when Matt Gaetz implicated Tucker Carlson in his underage girl trafficking matter investigation? Do you remember that?

Remember he went on Tucker? Remember what happened? Here, watch this. Again, I only know what I've read in the New York Times. I can say that actually you and I went to dinner about two years ago. Your wife was there and I brought a friend of mine. You'll remember her.

and she was actually threatened by the FBI told that if she wouldn't cop to the fact that somehow I was involved in some pay-for-play scheme that she could face trouble and so I do believe that there are people at the Department of Justice who are trying to smear me

you know, providing for flights and hotel rooms for people that you're dating who are of legal age is not a crime. And I'm just troubled that the lack of any sort of legitimate investigation into me would then permute, would then convert into this extortion attempt.

I don't remember the woman you're speaking of or the context at all, honestly, but I... You saw Tucker's reaction right there, right? This is from the interview as well. Let's play it. Congressman, thanks so much for coming on. I appreciate it. So this is obviously a serious allegation. Tell us what the truth is from your perspective.

It is a horrible allegation and it is a lie. The New York Times is running a story that I have traveled with a 17-year-old woman and that is verifiably false. People can look at my travel records and see that that is not the case.

What is happening is an extortion of me and my family involving a former Department of Justice official. On March 16th, my father got a text message demanding a meeting wherein a person demanded $25 million in exchange for making horrible sex trafficking allegations against me go away.

our family was so troubled by that we went to the local FBI and the FBI and the Department of Justice were so concerned about this attempted extortion of a member of Congress that they asked my dad to wear a wire which he did with the former Department of Justice official

Tonight, I am demanding that the Department of Justice and the FBI release the audio recordings that were made under their supervision and at their direction, which will prove my innocence and that will show that these allegations

aren't true, they're merely intended to try to bleed my family out of money. - And I will show you one more clip from that same interview. Here, play this clip. - And I believe we are in an era of our politics now, Tucker, where people are smeared to try to take them out of the conversation. I'm not the only person on screen right now who's been falsely accused

of a terrible sex act you were accused of something that you did not do and so you know what this feels like you know the pain it can bring to your family and you know how it just puts people on defense when you're accused of something so salacious and awful but it did not happen it is not true I mean you see Matt Gates there saying to Tucker look you you know what you've been accused of things like this or I was at dinner with you

When we put together the latest allegation that may be embedded in this ethics report about Matt Gaetz, and then you take a look at that interview with Tucker, I think serious questions need to be asked.

Is that what Matt Gaetz was referring to there? Was Matt Gaetz sending a signal to Tucker? Hey, you know what I know. You need to protect me. Was that what was going on? Because what's interesting about what's taking place as well about this ethics report is

Just obviously, MAGA Mike Johnson, I was told not to call him MAGA Mike Johnson anymore. I was told to call him Donald Trump's little Johnson, but I still call him MAGA Mike Johnson for this video. MAGA Mike Johnson and Jim Jordan all wanting to make sure this ethics report doesn't get out. I wonder if one of the things they're trying to protect is not Matt Gaetz.

But I wonder if they're trying to protect Fox here, that these sex trafficking victims may have been going to Fox and Gates was taking girls there to watch them. Here's what Johnson said. Play this clip. I'm going to request...

Now here's Jim Jordan. Let me play you this clip right here of him saying that this ethics report detailing sex trafficking by Matt Gaetz, drug use, and more should not be released. Play this clip.

And Congressman Jordan, do you have any sense about what will happen with that House ethics report that was supposed to come out Friday? Remember, Gates had been accused of things and no prosecution had been continued. It had been dropped. But Dick Durbin is trying to get his hands on that report, obviously, to leak it out to hurt President Trump. What is your sense on that?

Well, it's my understanding that is not supposed to go public. So if it's not supposed to under the rules, it shouldn't go public. And what I know about Matt Gaetz is one of the best members we had on our committee. In my time in Congress, which has been a while, I don't know if there are very few people who have the cross-examination skills he does.

And I want someone in the Justice Department who's not going to say moms and dads at school board meeting needs to be investigated. I want someone at the Justice Department who's going to say it's wrong for the FBI to do a memorandum and say that pro-life Catholics are extremists. I want someone at the Justice Department who can tell us who planted the pipe bombs on January 6th, who leaked the Dobbs opinion, who put cocaine at the White House instead of all the other stuff they seem to be focused on.

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He had previously said of Gaetz that Gaetz would go around and brag about crushing erectile dysfunction medication and having sexual girls. He would be telling all the other MAGAs that in the House of Representatives. This is a MAGA guy, Mark Wayne Mullen, who said that about Gaetz there. But now Mark Wayne Mullen is a little bit mum about the report. So I wonder if there's some broader powers that be, whether it's at Fox or otherwise,

That's also saying, look, guys, we don't, this report can go out. I wonder if there's something going on there. Because here's what Mark Wayne Mullen said recently, play this clip. Are you going to vote for Matt Gaetz? You know, Matt Gaetz and I, there's no question that we've had our differences. They've been very public about it. I completely trust President Trump's

a decision making on this one but at the same time he's got to come to congress and sell himself there's a lot of there are to the senate and sell himself there's a lot of questions that are going to be out there he's got to answer those questions and hopefully he's able to answer the questions right and if he can then we'll we'll go through the confirmation process senator mark wayne mullen from the great state of oklahoma good to see you sir thanks so much for being here i really appreciate it now you remember what kevin mccarthy said at the republican national convention let's play this clip

You would get booed off the stage. That's the biggest challenge we have.

He said you to get booed off the stage. What's your response to him? Well, you know, he looks very unhinged. I mean, a lot of people have concerns about him. And I'm not sure if he was on something, but I do hope he gets the help that he needs. But more importantly, I hope the young women get the justice they deserve when it comes to him. I mean, you're referring to the House Ethics Committee investigation that is ongoing. Yeah, with his partner in jail because they paid underage women for sex and drugs. Yeah, that's what I'm referring to. So he is denied...

all of that i'm wondering doesn't he deserve the presumption of innocence here well people are in jail the women have confirmed it um he came to me if i started still wanted to be speaker i could have done something illegal and stopped the ethics committee investigation that started four years before he told you to stop the other yeah that's what the that's what the whole motion to vacate was about

He wanted me to engage and thought somehow I started this investigation. It started long before I was ever speaker. And as you know, at Congress, I don't get involved in ethics. It's an equal number. They could investigate me. It has to be its own arm and branch.

And so he wanted to leverage me to try to do that. And if I didn't, he wanted to do a motion to vacate. And he's denied that, of course, that he urged you to stop the investigation. No, I had other members come to me. He came to me. I had other people who were on TV that he talked to. Yeah, yeah. So no, there's no denying it. Donald Trump's now press secretary and cheat campaign spokesperson, Caroline Leavitt, was on Fox. And I think also Fox is trying to

kind of pressure Trump like, no, don't do Gates. But then you have Trump's crew like Caroline Leavitt that are, I guess, professional rake steppers. And they're like, no, we want Gates. Here, watch this, play this clip. Caroline, what do you say to that? Does the president believe that Gates will get confirmed and you hear Kevin McCarthy say that that won't happen and everybody knows that? What do you say to that?

We do believe that. Nine days ago, President Trump received a resounding mandate from the American people, a once-in-a-generation mandate for change. Throughout this entire campaign, the American people made it clear they were sick and tired of the status quo from the Harris-Biden administration. They wanted a new direction for this country, and they chose President Trump to put America first. He has rolled out 16 fantastic policies.

picks over the past nine days. And Matt Gaetz is one of those picks. I know Matt personally. He is a great person. He's a man of integrity. He also is a brilliant litigator. He served on the House Judiciary Committee for eight years. Anyone who has watched him in those hearings knows that he's incredibly impressive. And like

President Trump, Matt Gaetz, has been a victim of the weaponized Department of Justice. And one of the promises President Trump made to the American people was to root out the corruption at the DOJ. We have seen this agency turn against the American people because of their political beliefs. Matt Gaetz and President Trump are going to put an end to that. And that's what the American people want. That's why they elected him. So what do you say? Here was Matt Gaetz, an interview he did back in

August of 2023, indicating that he had, even as then was having conversations with Donald Trump about becoming the attorney general, play this clip. - That evidence out is important for just the sake of truth itself, but I don't ascribe to the theory that we just have to surrender

sending criminal referrals because somehow Merrick Garland will never prosecute them. For many of the crimes that we are observing, the statute of limitations is five years. And so we could send criminal referrals to the Department of Justice. We go take the White House back in.

You never know, David. It may be an Attorney General Matt Gaetz down the road or someone of my liking who will be there to actually enforce the law and provide the accountability, not just the vision, but the actual accountability. The people that are sending you those messages deserve that in a free and just and constitutional republic. Yeah, we do. We absolutely do. And I like that. I like that. Attorney General Matt Gaetz. Are you kidding me? Ha!

Man, the world is not ready. Probably certainly Senate confirmation wouldn't be but you know, we're getting boy can dream We're getting there you can dream and we got it. We gotta start with taking back the White House Let's start there congressman gates And so when you put all of those pieces together that I just shared with you, I mean, I will say this You can come to the conclusion that

that there may be some deeper powers trying to block this ethics report. And it does seem, at least, it seems that Matt Gaetz and that 2021 interview was implicating Fox then and trying to send a signal that you need to protect me

Or else I know stuff about you. I'm not saying I know that for a fact, but you heard it. And now lines up with the reporting of him bringing the girls to Fox and then to Broadway plays and bringing them out on town in New York as part of this trafficking investigation. Can we just talk to that about that Donald Trump appointed this guy or nominated this guy to be attorney general? I think I saw the stat. 38% of Donald Trump's cabinet right now

Has accusations of sexual assault. Don't even mention Trump. He's been liable for sexual, liable for sexual assault. Wake up, people. Wake the heck up. Wake up. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Love this video? Make sure you stay up to date on the latest breaking news and all things Midas by signing up to the Midas Touch newsletter at MidasTouch.com slash newsletter.