“Should anyone inquire about their relationships, one person said, Gaetz told the women to say that he had paid for hotel rooms and dinners as part of their dates.”
Just like his talking points to Axios the other day
“One of the women who had sex with both men also agreed to have sex with an unidentified associate of theirs in Florida Republican politics, according to a person familiar with the arrangement.”
“unidentified associate involved in Florida Republican politics”
“It is also a violation of federal child sex trafficking law to provide someone under 18 with anything of value in exchange for sex.... A conviction carries a 10-year mandatory minimum prison sentence.”
🧵 New from me: Senior Biden admin official says US still prepared to work out Iran deal return before Iran elections, but it does not control the pace. diplomatic.substack.com/p/us-says-prep…
“About $90,000 was spent to build and install equipment cryptocurrency mining devices from a Chinese company called Antminer in a locked room inside Greenberg’s private office.” mynews13.com/fl/orlando/new…
“More than $1 million was ‘wasted’ on consultants, the report said. The consulting companies were created after Greenberg took office and dissolved after he quit. Staffers couldn’t say what the consultants did.” mynews13.com/fl/orlando/new…
The Biden admin had been expecting a possible proposal from Iran FM Zarif to be issued this week. But it did not materialize, amid growing signs that Iran pre elections politics are hindering prospects to come to an understanding diplomatic.substack.com/p/iran-electio…
Rouhani yesterday blasted internal rivals as betraying the Iranian nation by denying them possible economic relief, adding to the impression that there is a lack of consensus in Iran to move forward diplomatic.substack.com/p/iran-electio…
Rouhani’s language about denying Iranians economic relief seemed to echo comments Iran’s Sup. Leader made a few months ago, that Iran should not hesitate one hour to seek sanctions relief, so perhaps the effort to seek consensus or an opening is not over diplomatic.substack.com/p/iran-electio…
🧵House Intel chair Schiff on ODNI report: “The Intelligence Community Assessment released today underscores what we all knew already – that Russia interfered to support former Pres. Trump, hurt Pres. Biden, &undermine confidence in our electoral process. Through proxies, Russia
“ran a successful intel operation that penetrated the former president’s inner circle. Individuals close to the former president were targeted by agents of Russian intelligence inc. Andriy Derkach & Konstantin Kilimnik, who laundered misinformation into our political system
“with the intent of denigrating now-President Biden and damaging his candidacy.” ...
Jake Sullivan, on Iran: We are waiting to hear further from the Iranians how they would like to proceed. It is not going to be easy.
But we believe we are in a diplomatic process now that we can move forward now.
referred to communication through the Europeans
Asked about apparent Pompeo charge the ayatollahs only understand strength, & asking if Biden showing weakness for not retaliating for rocket attack on base in Iraq, Sullivan says if look at pattern of attacks in 2019-2020, not sure the former Sec in position to give advice.