• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    Meh. Lemme know when they have evidence of the minors. I have no problem with adults trading money for sex. Sure, he might have lied about it, but that can be explained by the stigmatization of the act by society.

    Don’t get me wrong. I hate the guy. But this is pretty not-so-damning in my mind.

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      9 months ago

      Her profile showed 17 years old at the time, but something tells me you aren’t actually looking for the proof, because that already exists.

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      9 months ago

      Maybe that would be true if he was personally paying for sex, but he was paying her to have sex with other men. That muddies the waters alot. There’s an assumption of control since he’s rich and well connected. To me this isn’t much different than what Espsein was doing. Flying girls to islands for sexual favors with business partners.

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        9 months ago

        You seem to have some pretty concrete ideas about what our Esteemed Colleagues on the Right Side of the Aisle would accept, that I don’t think they would necessarily share.

        edit: I’m saying they have loose morals 🙄

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      9 months ago

      Perhaps read the story next time?

      the woman, who was older than 21 at the time

      This has nothing to do with the allegations about him fucking a 17-yo, who being less than 365-days from majority was hardly a “child”. Illegal and immoral? Of course, and add some more “immoral” on top. Child? Yeah, not really. I was fucking like a jack rabbit at 17.

      As to that case, we got no witnesses. Joel Greenberg (same guy as in this story) was supposed to roll on Gaetz post-conviction. He did not. The woman involved started an OnlyFans site. Not a star prosecution witness, and on top of that, she refused.

      THIS might be something we can nail him with. He’s my Congressman, I’ve been watching and waiting.