All Signs Point Toward Donald Trump And Matt Gaetz Going To Prison This Year

     Jordan Klepper confronted Matt Gaetz on the one-year anniversary of January 6th. In a video that has since gone viral, the Daily Show correspondent famous for highlighting the idiotic ideals of Trump supporters for the past six years went to a press conference organized by Gaetz in which he and Marjorie Taylor Greene, as they told the convicted and recently indicted felon Steve Bannon on his podcast, said they would march from the Ellipse to the U.S. Capitol, the same route the thousands-strong mob took on January 6th, 2021. Instead, Gaetz and Greene got in their cars and drove off. Before that, however, Klepper was able to corner Gaetz and ask the most brutal questions any politician in recent memory has ever received. Klepper asked: "If you're going to reenact January 6th, who's going to take a shit in the rotunda? Who's going to build the gallows?" As Gaetz, visibly irritated but not responding, continued getting into his car while guards shoved Klepper back, he asked, "Isn't this a bit childish, Matt, or is that what attracts you to it?" 

     That last dig is a reference to an investigation launched in late 2020 but announced on March 31st, 2021, into whether Matt Gaetz paid to have sex with a 17-year-old girl and brought her across state lines or even to the Bahamas. Such an act would constitute felony sex trafficking and conspiracy in violation of the Mann Act, a case almost identical to the one used to bring down the likes of Jared Fogle. Gaetz has denied any wrongdoing and has not yet been charged. However, developments in the case suggest that that is likely to change. The man alleged to have provided Gaetz the girl to have sex with, GOP Florida tax collector Joel Greenberg, pled guilty to six felony charges in exchange for 27 felony charges against him being dropped. In exchange, Greenberg has agreed to cooperate with authorities, and both the defense AND the prosecution have asked for the sentencing date to be repeatedly pushed back. Greenberg isn't getting much from this: he's still been sitting behind bars for over two years. The federal prosecutors in the Middle District of Florida have already indicted multiple individuals on federal felony charges related to a multimillion-dollar real estate scam from ONE of the 27 dismissed charges alone, and they have said that the investigation is taking them to places they "never anticipated." They've also said that they will likely seek a sentence of 10 years for Greenberg, who had faced life in prison. This cooperation is crucial, and we all know Matt Gaetz has done something illegal: he stopped appearing on FOX News after Tucker Carlson wouldn't be his alibi for some "dinner" with a "young woman," he sent Venmo payments labeled "tuition," and he was the sole vote against human trafficking legislation in 2017. However, Greenberg is now a convicted sex offender; his word alone is not enough. Enter Gaetz's ex-girlfriend, a young former staffer and key witness who, just last week, testified before a grand jury in relation to the investigation against her ex-boyfriend. It's not looking good for Gaetz.

     Nor is it looking good for Donald Trump. Last December, he sent out a statement that seemed a little more unhinged than usual, saying, "all radical left Democrats want to do is put people in jail." Most of his statements are unhinged, but this one left people especially confused because it had no context. We got the context in January 2022, when it was revealed that his attorneys had met IN PERSON with the Fulton County DA. The case in question relates to that now-infamous December 2020 phone call in which he urged the Georgia secretary of state, a Republican who stood for the law over Trump, to "find" 11,780 votes, "which is as exactly as many as we need to win." In February 2021, I published a piece stating that Donald Trump could face up to seven years in a Georgia prison on felony charges, and it appears I was right. Hell, Donald Trump's defense attorney at his impeachment trial, Bruce Castor, argued that, if Donald Trump were guilty of crimes surrounding the 2020 election, he should be held criminally liable. While the Fulton County DA has been modest, claiming that she would "make a decision in the first half of 2022" as to whether or not to charge Donald Trump, this is a final step often done just weeks before indictments in high-profile cases to prepare attorneys for what's to come. Trump's reaction in December sure seems like his lawyers didn't give him much good news. His attorneys met Manhattan's DA soon before the Trump Organization was charged in July 2021. That's on top of the fact that he is still under criminal investigation in New York and Washington, D.C., and is facing millions in penalties from various civil suits.

     If conventional wisdom holds true, all signs point toward Donald Trump AND Matt Gaetz being indicted and possibly tried and imprisoned in 2022.