You have to hand it to Matt Gaetz, he is adamant that he will imitate his hero Donald Trump come hell, high water, orange clothing, or minors. Like Trump, Gaetz really doesn’t like rules. Additionally, and this isn’t confined to Trump, Gaetz truly doesn’t understand that rules also apply to rich white men (there’s a little clause, an asterisk, at the end of each law, “May also apply to wealthy white men, check with your local prosecutor.”)

There is a rule that everyone in Congress must file financial disclosures that itemize what money they made from where. If a scenario came up where a Representative has a $100,000 payment from “Big Tex” two days after a critical pipeline vote, the federal government would like that disclosed. Perhaps out of sheer embarrassment, Gaetz “failed” to report the money had made from sales of his book Firebrand. By all appearances, the book was best used as firewood.

According to the Daily Beast:

Amid a Justice Department investigation into alleged s*x crimes and a related House Ethics probe, beleaguered congressman Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) appears to have committed at least one much smaller but more straightforward federal violation: failure to disclose how much money he made from a book he published last September.

When The Daily Beast inquired about the omission last week, a Gaetz spokesperson said the office needed “additional documentation” from the publisher and was “in the process of receiving that information and amending the Congressman’s financial disclosure.” Sure enough, an amended financial disclosure was filed three days after The Daily Beast reached out asking about the undisclosed book income.

And he would’ve gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for these crazy kids!

We suppose we shouldn’t use the word “kid” in reference to Matt Gaetz but we’ll allow it here because we still find it stunning that Gaetz has yet to be arrested. That is the law for which we want Gaetz held accountable. Regardless, we return to the original point. He might have failed to report the sales because he made a grand total of $25,000.

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