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Aug 24, 2020 · One of the images that come up in a Google search of the congressman’s name is a mugshot. Gaetz was arrested in 2008, nearly a decade before he was elected to the U.S. Congress. Here’s what...
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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...
Gaetz was arrested in 2008 for driving under the influence, though he was never convicted. Back in D.C., Rep. Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat, responded to Gaetz’s poke at Biden by suggesting ...
Oct 27, 2019 · In 2014, when he was a state representative, Gaetz mentioned the incident publicly when a fellow lawmaker called for preventing law enforcement from releasing booking photos unless the suspect...
Oct 31, 2019 · Debunking Viral Claims. Misleading Posts Target GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz. By Angelo Fichera. Posted on October 31, 2019. 2.7K. Quick Take. Social media posts distort the facts around an 11-year-old,...
Nov 4, 2019 · Here’s what happened, according to the Tampa Bay Times: When Gaetz was 26, he was driving back from a nightclub on Okaloosa Island in a BMW registered to his father, then-Florida Sen. Don...
Apr 8, 2021 · According to CNN, Gaetz became notorious among some of his congressional colleagues for showing them “photos and videos of nude women he said he had slept with,” even doing so on the House...
