Matt Gaetz

Okay, this is amazing.

Well, for us, the shocking moment was when my father, who's a prominent person in our community, got outreach from someone he had never met that said that there were pictures and images of me with underage prostitutes.

And my dad needed to meet with these people right away.

And so my dad, somewhat surprised and concerned, goes and talks to these people and says, what in the world are you talking about?

And they said, well, Mr. Gates, we need $25 million from you to go and rescue a spy that is being held in Iran.

And if you do that, we can make these things about your son go away.

which was crazy and wild, we did what any reasonable people would do.

We went to the FBI and said that we were being extorted by these folks with their false claims.

And we later learned that this consulate official working for the Israeli government was sending text messages to Scott Adams, of all people, the Dilbert cartoonist,

saying they were expecting my father to furnish this $25 million payment and that that would be evidence of my consciousness of guilt.

Yeah, and I don't know anything about this person.

I don't know if the person's dead or alive.

I don't either.

It was troubling and concerning to me that someone who was getting paid by the Israeli government was involved in a criminal shakedown of a U.S.

congressman.

And someone went to jail for this.

The person who conveyed this message to my father pled guilty to the attempted fraud.

And surprisingly, there was never really an effort to figure out what the government of Israel's involvement was in this matter.

Yes, a person who, his name's Jake Novak, I think he currently works for Real America's Voice, and he sent text messages.

Wait, what?