Look, I hate Matt Gaetz as much as anyone on the Left, but I hate the prude feminists who are harping on this case about as much.
What he’s charged with isn’t sex trafficking. The “little girl” was a prostitute. A teenage prostitute. She was an expensive call girl. Gaetz, etc. were buying prostitutes, and she was one of them.
She lied about her age and used a fake ID, so Ginsburg and Gaetz thought she was legal. Turns out this prostitute was 17 1/2. At this time she was not only having sex with clients but was also having sex with both men and women for free.
Gaetz and Ginsburg finally discovered that she was lying about her age, read her the riot act, and told her to get out. Neither man had sex with her again. This is all uncontroversial.
At the time she was a minor, Gaetz flew her on an airplane from Florida to Georgia and then had sex with her in Georgia. That’s supposedly “sex trafficking.” No it isn’t!
Because according to Feds, if I buy an underage prostitute, supposedly I’m no…
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