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Gaetz says he’s a ‘wanted man by the Deep State’ amid sex probe and jokes to rally he’s ‘surrounded by beautiful women’
REP. Matt Gaetz thundered a Florida lectern on Friday night to say he was a "marked man" in the eyes of the so-called Deep State - as a sordid sex trafficking probe continues to threaten him.
Speaking at a rally in The Villages, the 39-year-old Republican even joked that his critics would portray his speech as "a wild party" - with him "surrounded by beautiful women".
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Gaetz - a firm ally of Donald Trump - appeared with fellow MAGA lawmaker Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green to kick off an "America First" tour in support of the former president.
To rapturous cheers from fans, the embattled Congressman appeared defiant in the face of a criminal probe alleging that he and a close Florida pal paid a seventeen-year-old girl for sex.
He has firmly denied the allegations.
"I'm a marked man in Congress, a canceled man on some corners of the internet, and a wanted man by the Deep State - but I'm a Florida man who's happy to be home," he told the packed crowd who were all standing and cheering.
He then took shots at the media and predicted how his speech will be pilloried by the press, claiming tomorrow's headline on CNN will read: "Matt Gaetz has wild party surrounded by beautiful women" - just wait."
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He railed against the network for essentially trying to bring him down for his success in the nation's capital.
"It's not often you get an admission on video," he said. "But a CNN director on video said the reason they were repeating these lies and propagandizing my life is because I'm effective.
"Because I stand up in the way of an agenda that will hurt my fellow Americans.
"They will not silence me we will not back down and the truth will prevail."
The congressman said he's entitled to get "due process" and in his case pose questions to any accuser before a judgment is made.
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"We have a right to confront our accusers in this country," he said.
"How about that?
"There can be no due process here if the only due process for conservatives is see leaks embroidered to lies then just endlessly repeated by the America last media."
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Starting late last month, Gaetz's name started splashing in unflattering headlines suggesting he and his partying wingman Joel Greenberg, a former Sunshine State tax collector, were not only sugar daddies to many girls for “sexual activities" - but that .
The revelations were based on admissions found in Greenberg's drafts of letters that Greenberg penned when he was trying to secure a pardon from former President Donald Trump, first reported by the .
The alleged confession letter that was revealed on Thursday, reads: “On more than one occasion, this individual was involved in sexual activities with several of the other girls, the congressman from Florida’s 1st Congressional District and myself.”
“From time to time, gas money or gifts, rent or partial tuition payments were made to several of these girls, including the individual who was not yet 18", according to the letter, seen and verified as authentic by the Daily Beast.
"I did see the acts occur firsthand and Venmo transactions, Cash App or other payments were made to these girls on behalf of the Congressman,” Greenberg allegedly adds.
Greenberg is reportedly in their probe.
Gaetz had come out in front of the swirling sex trafficking accusations by suggesting that he and his father, Don Gaetz, were victims of an extortion attempt.
The plot had his father being propositioned by two men in the form of a letter demanding that the father pay a cash ransom in order to pinpoint an American hostage who had vanished in Iran over a decade ago, according to details published in the .
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The elder Gaetz allegedly harbored suspicions and raised them with the FBI.
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