{"id":79425,"date":"2021-09-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79425"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:44:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T20:44:21","slug":"well-lookie-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79425","title":{"rendered":"Well, Lookie Here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rep. Matt Gaetz exonerated of allegations of sex trafficking.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/katiepavlich\/2021\/09\/01\/matt-gaetz-exonerated-after-man-charged-with-extortion-n2595102\">the victim of an extortion attempt<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz has been exonerated after 62-year-old Stephen Alford was recently indicted by the Department of Justice for extortion.<\/p><p>&#8220;Stephen M. Alford did knowingly and willfully devise, and intent to devise, a scheme to defraud and for obtaining money and property by means of material false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises, and for the promise of executing such scheme, did cause, and attempt to cause, a wire communication to be transmitted in interstate commerce,&#8221; the indictment <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndfl\/press-release\/file\/1429001\/download\" target=\"_blank\">states<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So, all you Democrats in the comment section (you know who you are) who were measuring the drapes in a Supermax cell for Gaetz?   Anything to say?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way &#8211; Rep. Gaetz&#8217;s father, Don&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Don Gaetz was allegedly approached by Alford earlier this year, the indictment says, with a proposal that if Don Gaetz gave money to Alford, he would try and secure a presidential pardon for Rep, Gaetz ending the reported investigation into Rep. Gaetz and sex trafficking.<\/p>&mdash; Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tom_Winter\/status\/1432816340625203205?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 31, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;was a student of my father&#8217;s, back in Rugby, ND, back when I was a toddler. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not gonna claim it gives me absolute moral authority or anything. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Matt Gaetz exonerated of allegations of sex trafficking. He was the victim of an extortion attempt: Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz has been exonerated after 62-year-old Stephen Alford was recently indicted by the Department of Justice for extortion. &#8220;Stephen M. Alford did knowingly and willfully devise, and intent to devise, a scheme to defraud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79426,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79425\/revisions\/79426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}