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How the Justice Department came to investigate Rep. Matt Gaetz Matt Zapotosky, Michael Scherer © Joe Raedle/Getty Images Rep. Matt Gaetz, (R-Fla.) arrives ahead of a speech at the Trump National Doral golf resort in Florida on April 9. The missive arrived at an Orlando-area preparatory school in October 2019, outlining a damaging allegation against a music teacher there. The teacher, in the letter’s telling, had had an inappropriate sexual relationship with the purported student who had written it. And the writer claimed to offer proof: private Facebook messages in w...

Live updates: Biden and Japan’s Suga to hold Rose Garden news conference after afternoon of meetings John Wagner © Andrew Harnik/AP President Biden speaks during a meeting with members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Executive Committee at the White House in Washington on Thursday. President Biden on Friday will hold a formal Rose Garden news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, capping an afternoon of meetings with the first foreign leader to visit the White House in person during Biden’s presidency. The visit takes place as t...

AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack Is this just another “repackaged … anonymously sourced stories” that the media has been running about Matt Gaetz, as his spokesman commented when contacted by the Washington Post? Not quite, although it certainly does recycle those stories and sells the article as an explainer on “How the Justice Department Came to Investigate Rep. Matt Gaetz.” A more accurate description might be how the DoJ and the media might be being duped by a con man looking to find any way out of a federal sex-trafficking indictment. Reporters Matt Zapotosky and Michael Shearer did...

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 4.16.21 Florida politics and Sunburn — perfect together. First in Sunburn — A new poll of the impending Special Election in Florida’s 20th Congressional District shows a packed field with many voters still undecided. But Broward Commissioner Dale Holness and state Sen. Perry Thurston appear to hold an advantage among the rumored and declared candidates. Dale Holness and Perry Thurston are holding an advantage to succeed the late Alcee Hastings. The Public Policy Polling survey, obtained by Florida P...

This is what happens when you give Florida Man internet access. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has long had a special skill for getting his name in headlines, but he must be wishing he could have been left out of recent stories about his friend, former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg, being indicted for a laundry list of federal charges, including underage sex trafficking. In the perennially weird state of Florida, there’s often more to a story, and this one is no exception. Mediaite has obtained new information explaining how this scandal originally unfolded — and how it ties in t...