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Conservatives Must Defend Matt Gaetz To The End

The Federalist posts:

".......................We should have learned this lesson from Donald Trump's first presidential run and time in office. From Crossfire Hurricane, to the pee-tape dossier, to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, unsupported and unbelievable accusations leaked to the public hampered Trump's ability to advance his agenda. Time and again the charges proved unfounded, and yet in advance of the 2024 election, the lawfare continued. The country, however, had wised up by then and recognized the various criminal and civil charges leveled against Trump for what they were: an effort to interfere in the election.

Why then is anyone giving credence to the accusations against Gaetz, especially given the FBI - after thoroughly investigating the matter for two years - decided not to charge Gaetz? Rather, career prosecutors for the Department of Justice concluded there were credibility problems with "the two central witnesses" to the case.

Earlier this week, The Federalist's editor-in-chief, Mollie Hemingway, detailed not just the DOJ's conclusion that the women's stories would be unconvincing to a jury, but the many additional problems with the entire hoax. Take, for instance, the fact that a jail-house informant revealed that his cellmate, Joel Greenberg, was behind the woman's claims that she had sex with Gaetz when she was 17. And Greenberg himself had admitted to "fabricating allegations against a schoolteacher who was running against him to be a tax collector," with Greenberg sending "letters to the school falsely claiming the teacher had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student."


....................While some on the Right may prefer not to defend the former playboy, the only way to end the growing use of salacious lies as a political weapon is to condemn the information operation, prosecute those responsible, and ostracize the members of the media responsible for advancing the hoax. Like it or not, that's precisely what conservatives must do in response to the attacks on Gaetz.

Had Republicans adopted this approach when the Left came for the blemishless Brett Kavanaugh, it wouldn't need to defend Gaetz against the false accusations now. But whether Gaetz's bachelorhood looked vastly different than Kavanaugh is of no moment: What matters is that the enemies of both men used lies to manipulate politics. And our Republic cannot allow that tactic to stand.

Photo credit Matt Gaetz on Youtube