But his moment in the sun was short-lived, extinguished just two days later by his long-time political rival, Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, who filed a motion to remove Mr McCarthy from his post.
“It’s to the benefit of this country that we have a better Speaker of the House than Kevin McCarthy,” Mr Gaetz said, as he celebrated Mr McCarthy’s ouster.
The manoeuvre not only devastated Mr McCarthy’s political ambition, but disoriented Washington and plunged the House back into chaos. Republicans once again must decide who they want to be Speaker, just nine months after the tumultuous vote that elected Mr McCarthy in the first place.
For Mr Gaetz at least, the revolt was a rousing success, removing his political nemesis from power and making himself, a relatively junior congressman and reliable flame-thrower, a main character in the drama now consuming Capitol Hill. But it has also made the already unpopular Mr Gaetz, 41, even more isolated in Washington.
Nobody was protecting him from prosecution, we just couldn’t get the evidence and witnesses together.
His sleezebag buddy was supposed to roll on him after being convicted. He did not. The girl in question refused to testify and, on top of that, now has an OnlyFans site. Prosecutors thought that was bad look and that she’d get torn up on the stand if they tried to compel her testimony.
Probably using the only fans site to launder the payoff money she got to stay quiet.
Pretty sure his buddy tried to snitch, but he was such a shit bag his testimony was unreliable?
Which didn’t make sense. Because there’s fucking venom receipts
Problem is, he was the only person willing to. If there are other witnesses, you can deal with having one who might be questionable, but if he’s the only testimony you have, your case is gonna get torn to shreds.