 One way I think you can sufficiently gauge just how much trouble a politician is in is if even people like Marjorie Taylor Greene Go out of their way to not just distance themselves from you But to actually delete any evidence that she ever met or knew you That is the exact situation that Florida congressman Matt Gaetz is finding himself in now and after learning about his scandal involving alleged sex trafficking and a possible extortion plot More details have been slowly but surely emerging and to make matters worse We're now finding out what actually triggered this investigation in the first place as Sarah K. Burris of Ross story explains CBS News revealed Wednesday that representative Matt Gaetz took a trip to the Bahamas in late 2018 or early 2019 That triggered the sex trafficking investigation sources revealed according to the report Gaetz was on that trip with a marijuana entrepreneur and hand surgeon named Jason Parazolo who allegedly paid for the travel expenses Accommodations and female escorts the Justice Department is investigating to determine if the escorts were illegally trafficked across state or International lines for sex with Gaetz or merely as escorts that do not provide anything other than companionship Hmm. I wonder now We also learned that before Donald Trump left office Matt Gaetz reportedly had a private conversation with him And he asked for a preemptive blanket pardon according to the New York Times He said no Since this story broke Donald Trump has come out and publicly denounced the story Alleging that it's fake news and you know since Donald Trump is usually a really truthful honest actor I think we can take him at his word that this totally was never a conversation that occurred Except it's totally probably true, and I don't believe it for a second. I think that Matt Gaetz is He's not letting on to how much trouble he knew that he was in and Really one thing that's telling about the situation is the fact that all of his usual allies Aren't really speaking up on his defense usually when there's a Republican politician in trouble the Republicans Propaganda arm Fox News mobilizes and comes to his defense, but they haven't really said too much about this I mean they've covered it mostly in the first 24 hours when the story broke, but even Matt Gaetz is bestie at Fox News Sean Hennedy has been nowhere to be found on this particular subject and that really tells you a lot that His closest allies they know that this ship is sinking and they want to get off before it takes them down with it So as Eric Hananoke and Matt Gertz of Media Matters explains Representative Matt Gaetz owes his political rise to Fox News Politicians gain power in the modern GOP by grabbing and holding the attention of the base and the easiest way to do that is through its most Trusted media outlet the Florida backbencher understands this structure and gained a national profile in his first two terms By fervently supporting Donald Trump and denouncing the former president's foes in near constant appearances on the right wing network He also won the favor of Trump himself who watches Fox regularly and appreciated the congressman zeal It seems however that Fox has now abandoned Gaetz at his moment of greatest need Gaetz has been engulfed in scandal following the New York Times's March 30th report that he has been under Federal investigation for alleged sex trafficking the congressman has spent the last week denying that he had sex with a minor or Paid women of legal age for sex Declining to comment on reports that he showed nude photos of women He claimed to have had sex with to other members on the house floor and drawing lackluster defenses from colleagues speaking on the record and descriptions of cartoonishly scandalous behavior Anonymously but Fox devoted a mere 45 minutes to the Gaetz saga through Tuesday and nearly three quarters of that coverage came in the First 24 hours with the network providing sparse coverage of subsequent revelations Perhaps the most notable absence from Gaetz defense is primetime host Sean Hannity Even as Gaetz responded to the allegations by spinning the sort of convoluted tale of deep state conspiracy and right wing Victimhood that seems tailor-made for Hannity's program The Fox star has seemingly left him for dead Gaetz is a Hannity fixture since August of 2017 He made a hundred twenty seven appearances on the program roughly 41 percent of the 310 interviews he gave the network overall including a disastrous turn on Tucker Carlson tonight to respond to the initial Times report According to media matters database of weekday programming Gaetz is the 11th most frequent Hannity guest over that period and ranks Second to Senator Lindsey Graham among guests who have not served as paid Fox contributors Yet the Fox star has not mentioned the embattled congressman's travails not on his primetime TV show Not on his nationally syndicated radio show not on his website and not on Twitter So obviously Sean Hannity silence here is deafening imagine if We were in the middle of an election cycle and as someone who supported Bernie Sanders and defended him There was this gigantic scandal that popped up and I had nothing to say about it. That would be really Really conspicuous right my silence would be a little bit weird if you're a usual viewer So the same thing is true here when you have someone who is an ally to you Who goes on your program all the time for you to be silent in a time like this? That says a lot now perhaps Sean Hannity silence has something to do with the fact that Matt Gaetz Implicated Tucker Carlson and maybe Sean Hannity is a little bit too close to this He doesn't want to fly any closer to the Sun than he already has I don't know I'm very obviously just speculating But the fact that Sean Hannity of all people is not touching this That says a lot That tells you that Matt Gaetz He's going down This is uh This is one of the many red flags. Uh, this is This is him. I think realizing Sean Hannity realizing that the writing is on the wall And it's best not to get too involved in this Don't defend him if you think it might come back to bite you in the ass and republicans They've they've always defended shitty people. How many republicans defended Roy Moore who was an alleged pedophile But in this instance for whatever reason they are conspicuously silent for one of their best friends matt Gaetz And that says a lot that tells you everything you need to know That uh, there's more than they're letting on and they know that this is a very very serious scandal But I mean, I think that we all know that matt Gaetz should do the right thing He should resign and I'm gonna take some time to fire off a tweet at him telling him how I feel I'm sorry, but when even marjorie taylor green Distances herself from you You know, you're in real trouble So do the right thing and resign matt Gaetz. You absolute perverted cretin Oh misspelled cretin. I hope that matt Gaetz gets the message Anyways, the story is incredibly interesting and I am anxiously awaiting more and more details because This might be one of the biggest political scandals of the year