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Gaetz typically didn’t pay women for sex directly—instead, he paid Greenberg, who then paid the women. That means Greenberg knows a lot, and since Greenberg is facing significant legal trouble, he appears to be motivated to talk. But before he started talking to the federal government, Greenberg talked to Roger Stone in late 2020 in hopes that Stone could convince Donald Trump to give him a last-minute pardon.
Greenberg talked to Stone a lot, and The Daily Beast has the receipts in the form of Signal chats between Greenberg and Stone, and a lengthy confession letter Greenberg wrote for Stone to use in his efforts with Trump. Of note, Gaetz had at one point posted a social media picture of himself, Stone, and Greenberg.
In the letter, of which The Daily Beast has multiple drafts, Greenberg describes learning through “an anonymous tip” that a woman—well, as it turned out, girl—in his and Gaetz’s sex trafficking scheme was 17 years old.
“Immediately I called the congressman and warned him to stay clear of this person and informed him she was underage,” Greenberg wrote. “He was equally shocked and disturbed by this revelation.”
They were so shocked and disturbed that they stayed away from the girl only until after she turned 18. She was one of the women paid by Greenberg immediately after Gaetz sent him $900 through Venmo with the note “hit up [her nickname].”
In his communications with Stone, Greenberg was hanging his argument for a pardon in part on the threat to Gaetz. “And while I have not had any communication with MG, he absolutely has to know that the sex charge they hit me with would be what they would hit him with,” he wrote in one of the Signal messages. “All he has to is explain to POTUS the situation and his exposure, and it would be very easy to do.”
”MG is like a son to POTUS. MG is like a brother to me.”
Well, we know how far “like a son” goes to Donald Trump, and now we know how far “like a brother” goes to Matt Gaetz. And to Greenberg, who seems to have been screenshotting his Signal chats with Stone before they could disappear, in just one of a series of insurance policies he set up for himself should the pardon effort fail, as it did.
Gaetz is defiant and is attempting to remain a significant figure in the Republican Party, as his planned tour with Greene shows. But even before the investigation into him became public, it was serious enough that then-Attorney General William Barr was reportedly taking steps to avoid being photographed near him. Attacking the media will only go so far if and when he faces federal charges.
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