Rep. Matt Gaetz was at a 2017 party with a 17-year-old girl at the heart of an alleged sex trafficking scandal, according to legal documents filed Thursday.

The filings cite affidavits based on three witness testimonies—which remain sealed—which put the Florida congressman at the party, according to Notus. One witness cited by the filings says the girl, a high school junior, was naked and said people were there to “engage in sexual activities” while drugs including cocaine and ecstasy were present.

The documents were filed by lawyers trying to recoup legal fees in a lawsuit filed by Chris Dorworth—a lobbyist friend of Gaetz’s who hosted the alleged party at his Florida home.


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      It’s so close. If only the GOP could produce one politician who merely had a history of going to wild consensual drug-filled sex parties. But no, there always seems to be freaking children involved. What the fuck.

      Also, fuck cocaine. Fuck people who take cocaine as a party drug. Fuck people who think it only hurts themselves. it has fucked up an entire fucking continent and caused immeasurable damage. And everybody knows it. Drug cartels are financed by the consumers, and the users are smug rich people who have every reason to know better. It’s not even an interesting drug.

      Fuck yourself up with synthetic stuff, eat shrooms or lick toads, grow as much weed as you can possibly manage. I don’t give a fuck. But cocaine… Nah, fuck that shit.

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        Thinking only smug rich people do cocaine is such a wild take that I don’t even know where to start with you man.

        But yes, the cocaine trade has caused immeasurable damage to the world at large.

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          Yeah, that part was written with some specific people in mind. It has a broader appeal than that. It has, however, also a well established position as a rich person’s drug. And fuck those people in particular.

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          Wait until he finds out where cocaine comes from

          I misread his comment. I thought he was talking about natural drugs