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Oct 27, 2019 · A Facebook post said, "Matt Gaetz has had numerous DUIs and his dad got him off each time. He was part of a company that had to pay 75 million in hospice fraud. They stole from dying people."
Oct 31, 2019 · The posts offer no evidence that Gaetz has “had numerous DUIs,” or that his father, Don, a Florida state senator from 2006 to 2016, “got him off each time.”
Aug 24, 2020 · An anti-Republican political action committee paid for a billboard in Pensacola that included Gaetz’s mugshot and the words, “Rep. Matt Gaetz, how many DUIs have you had? The voters deserve...
- Erin Laviola
- The Mug Shot
- Seven Duis
- Death of College Roommate
The fact blended into these memes’ fictions is that a mug shot stemming from Gaetz's arrest for driving under the influence is real, as has been acknowledged by the congressman himself and was reportedby the Tampa Bay Times in 2014: A controversy ensued when charges against Gaetz, whose father was a member of the Florida State Senate at the time, w...
In terms of what is accessible via public records, the 2008 arrest is Gaetz’s only recorded DUI. Despite that, several memes and articles make the claim that Gaetz has had at least seven DUI arrests. The earliest iteration of this claim appears to stem from an August 29, 2016, post written by conspiracy theoristWayne Madsen, who stated: "Matt Gaetz...
Mentions of a “suspicious” death of Gaetz’s roommate during his four years at Florida State University between 1999 and 2003, like the claims of seven DUIs, did not exist online prior to Madsen’s August 2016 piece, in which he stated: Madsen's being the only source for this claim merits suspicion on its own: He has a history of making wholly basele...
Apr 8, 2021 · One that went up in 2018 featured Gaetz's mugshot from his 2008 arrest on a charge of driving under the influence and said "Rep. Matt Gaetz: How many DUIs have you had? The voters deserve...
- Cheryl Teh
Dec 12, 2019 · TALLAHASSEE — Rep. Matt Gaetz recently held himself out as a man who accepts responsibility for his mistakes. He brought up his 2008 DUI arrest during a meeting last week of the House...
Sep 23, 2023 · Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) has emerged as a conservative firebrand and one of former President Donald Trump's staunchest allies since winning his congressional seat in the same 2016 election that...
