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Matt Gaetz Lawsuit Shows How Twisted the Term 'Sex Trafficking' Has Become

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Matt Gaetz Lawsuit Shows How Twisted the Term 'Sex Trafficking' Has Become
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Matt Gaetz resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2024, shortly before the House Ethics Committee released a report accusing him of having sex with a 17-year-old girl in 2017, when he was 35, and "regularly pa[ying] women for engaging in sexual activity with him." The probe was widely discussed as a sex trafficking probe, but the ethics committee "did not find sufficient evidence to conclude that Representative Gaetz violated the federal sex trafficking statute," per its rep

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