Some day this war will be over
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I want to emphasize that it’s in no way hypebole to describe Donald Trump as the most completely worthless piece of shit that has ever risen to any prominence in American public life. Here’s a story about the man he nominated to be the chief legal officer of the United States government (gift link; I don’t normally do much in the way of trigger warnings, but the details are truly horrifying so please take that into account).
She was 17 and a high school junior in Florida. She was working at McDonald’s. And she was living in and out of a homeless shelter.
Hoping to save up to buy braces to fix her teeth, she falsely advertised herself in 2017 as 18 years old on a website that matches men looking for “companionship” with young women looking to make money.
What followed would set off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of one of the men she would encounter, Representative Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican.
Mr. Gaetz was investigated by the Justice Department for child sex trafficking but never charged. Following the election last year, he was President Trump’s first choice to serve as attorney general. He subsequently resigned from Congress, and then withdrew from consideration as attorney general under a storm of scrutiny.
A bipartisan House Ethics Committee investigation later determined there was substantial evidence that he had sex with the 17-year-old and the report included testimony from the girl about how she was paid by Mr. Gaetz for the sex.
For all the public furor over Mr. Gaetz — who always asserted that he broke no laws even as the House Ethics Committee found that he violated Florida’s statutory rape laws — little attention has been given to the story of the girl, how she came to be exploited and how she has coped with what happened to her and the ensuing political scandal.
Last month, in response to a request from the McClatchy newspaper chain, a federal judge in Florida unsealed court documents from a related civil case that shed some light on her background. The documents included a description of the girl that said that at the time she met Mr. Gaetz she was “a then-homeless 17-year-old high schooler.”
In response to that disclosure, The New York Times reached out to the girl’s lawyer, Laura B. Wolf, who agreed to confirm some basic biographical information about her client, providing details for the first time of how the girl’s circumstances led her to her encounters with Mr. Gaetz. Ms. Wolf said her client believed the public should have a fuller understanding of how she had been victimized.
“The vulnerable circumstances most crime victims face are rarely known to the public,” Ms. Wolf said. “Although my client’s circumstances were revealed outside of her control, I hope it helps for the public to see a fuller and more human picture of her than the press has reported on to date.”
One day Donald Trump will be gone, and a lot of people are going to claim that they never supported him, or did so only reluctantly, or were trying to engage in damage control, or had no choice because the alternative was voting for a Democrat.
All these people are every bit as enormous pieces of shit as Donald Trump, with the added indictment that this state of being didn’t necessarily come as naturally to them.
Everyone associated with the Republican party in 2025 is pure scum, except those who are sufficiently ignorant morons that they know not what they do, so 50% of them give or take I suppose.