GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) on Thursday night called for Rep. Matt Gaetz(R-Fla.) to resign amid allegations that Gaetz had sex with a minor and violated sex trafficking laws.
In a short tweet, the Illinois Republican wrote, “Matt Gaetz needs to resign.”
The tweet included a link to an article from The Daily Beast reporting that Gaetz used Venmo to pay an accused sex trafficker $900 in May of 2018. The Beast reports that the man, Joel Greenberg, then sent the same amount of money to teenaged girls. Continue reading.