GOP starts EXTORTING its OWN MEMBERS over Trump Picks?!!

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What does Marjorie Taylor Greene claim will happen if the Matt Gates ethics report is released?

Ben Meiselas 0:00
So we've already arrived at the Republicans extorting other Republicans phase of the Trump transition, moving from absolute chaos to extortion. You now have MAGA Republican Marjorie Taylor Green sending a strong message to other Republicans and the House of Representatives and to Republicans in the Senate that if you keep pushing to release an ethics report involving Matt Gaetz, which could show that Matt Gaetz Engaged in sex trafficking of children, we are going to out you, other Republicans. So don't you release that ethics report and don't you try to stop Matt Gates, someone who's accused of being a uh child sex trafficker, a drug user, and someone who was obstructed justice. Don't you tank his nomination?
Ben Meiselas 0:45
Here's what Marjorie Taylor Green just posted. She goes, for my Republican colleagues in the House. In the Senate. If we're going to release ethics reports and rip apart our own that Trump has appointed, then put it all out there for the American people to see. Yes, all the ethics reports and claims, including the one I filed, all your sexual harassment and assault claims that were secretly settled, paying off victims with taxpayer money, the entire Jeffrey Epstein files. Yep, you have Marjorie Taylor Green. Implicating other Republicans with Jeffrey Epstein. The Jeffrey Epstein files, the tapes, recordings, witness interviews, but not just those. There's more. Epstein wasn't, isn't the only asset. If we're going to dance, let's all dance in the sunlight, Republican colleague.
Ben Meiselas 1:34
So Marjorie Taylor Greene accusing other Republicans of engaging in sexual harassment. Being with Epstein, just another day in the Trump MAGA Republican Party, corporate media. Is this the drama that you wanted? Are you happy about this? As uh many in the world are just horrified at America and our enemies are laughing. By the way, a hacker has apparently gotten access to the file containing the damaging testimony of women who were children. At the time, um, who have made very credible allegations against Matt Gates of sex trafficking. Them. We reported yesterday that Matt Gates is alleged to have brought the children to the Fox News studios when he would do news hits and then would have them watch Broadway plays, like Pretty Women, multiple women, have apparently who are representing by this lawyer.
Ben Meiselas 2:30
this lawyer, uh this lawyer has come forward on their uh behalf. We've also been reporting the following. The top Democrat on the ethics panel says she wants to publish the Gates report. It should certainly be released to the Senate, and I think it should be released to the public, as we have done with many other investigative reports in the past. I mean, look, Matt Gates has now been nominated by Donald Trump to be the top law enforcement officer in these United States.

How are Republican senators responding to the push for the Gates ethics report?

Ben Meiselas 2:57
I think the Public deserves to know during a nomination process and a confirmation hearing if this individual is a child sex trafficker or not. I don't think that should be controversial, but for Marjorie Taylor Green, it's so controversial that she's now saying, other Republicans, you're engaged in that conduct too. And I'm gonna come for you and out your secrets if you out Matt Gates's. secrets. Really, America, this this is the Republican Party? That this is who people voted for? Anyway, this article goes on to say Representative Susan Wilde, the top Democrat in the House Ethics Committee, said Monday she wants her panel's report on former Representative Matt Gates to be released to the public. Quote, it should certainly be released to the Senate, and I think it should be released to the public, as we've done with many of our investigative reports in the past.
Ben Meiselas 3:47
Both Republican and Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are pushing for access to the report. After Trump tapped Gates to be his attorney general last week. Gates resigned from the House of Representatives hours after the announcement, amid rumors that the ethics report could be released in the coming days, complicating the decision to publish the findings of the investigation.

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