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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMakes you go "Hmmm" - Gaetz and his "adopted" son
Adopts a rather old child from Cuba, keeps it quiet for years, sending him to college and yet, "We share no blood"???
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)BComplex
(8,060 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Link to tweet
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What a day...
Nestor can't be Matt Gaetz's "son"...
The US State Department has recorded exactly ONE adoption from Cuba since 1999: a girl in 2000.
That Gaetz was holding Nestor out to be his "son", even to his fellow congresspeople, is fucking weird and creepy.
Sanity Claws
(21,852 posts)Can anyone find out if Gaetz traveled to Cuba and when?
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Gaetz and Nestor's mother "dated".
Sanity Claws
(21,852 posts)If you what you said is true, then that pretty much clinches it.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)It maybe true or bee ess of course.
Ms. Toad
(34,086 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Nothing about this is legal or proper.
It needs to be investigated by legal authorities.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)Nestor was adopted (although again, probably not formally) by his own sister. Gaetz sister had nothing to do with it.
Ms. Toad
(34,086 posts)of Nestor's mom (who died from cancer). Nestor's dad is back in Cuba.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,086 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)brother of a now former girlfriend of Gaetz. They broke up and Nestor stayed with Gaetz.
Where is the paperwork where Gaetz "adopted" or obtained some type of legal status to the kid? Would be curious to know about the documentation on the boy. You know Republicans will find a way to keep someone in this country if THEY want to and are so willing to throw everyone else out.
It still sound creepy.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)Nestor was supposedly adopted by his own sister.
dalton99a
(81,569 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)C'mon Matt. It's ok!
We love you
They may just be right about this.
Welcome to the free world ~
go twitter!
Stallion
(6,476 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Link to tweet
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Matt Gaetz, as a 27-year-old drunk, adopted Nestor, a 13-year-old boy from Cuba.
A subtle reminder that Matt Gaetz was the sole vote against an anti-human trafficking bill.
(Later corrected to call him 32 year old drunk, or 31 - I forget)
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,965 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,887 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,439 posts)The entire story is bizarre.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Nothing like abusing your power to keep your lover in a job and close.
Little nepotism, little corruption, little cover up. all endangered just so Gaetz can make a faux political point.
JI7
(89,262 posts)the whole thing is weird.
Katie Hill mentioned how Gaetz talks about him all the time and i'm sure he does but that doesn't mean he is his son. or that the relationship is a father/son one.
Blue Owl
(50,490 posts)n/t
hlthe2b
(102,343 posts)and other foreigners, I observed an often not-so-benign pattern of middle age (and older) men traveling with young boys from the host country (India, Thailand, elsewhere). It was hard not to assume the most obvious explanation.
I am NOT saying this is the case here, but my 'antennae' went up in an identical way when encountering these unusual traveling "pairs" in years past. If Gaetz did a nice thing for this young man, as he now states, it is hard to understand why he never mentioned him before.
I'll say nothing more than that, but the seeming secrecy up to now between Gaetz and this young man is understandably "curious."
Ok, I apologize for the innuendo if I am wrong, but it is not an uncommon issue among those who would exploit the vulnerable and impoverished worldwide. I hope that is not the case here.
tanyev
(42,601 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,054 posts)Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)Not seeing it in that pic.
PCIntern
(25,576 posts)Do they really believe that people will not figure this stuff out? And since when is he black, as we define black in America? Hes Cuban and looks about as black as I do, which is not saying a whole lot.And although men are not my thing, hes a very handsome Young man. Matt has very good taste.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Gaetz has never married.
In June 2020, following an argument with fellow congressman Cedric Richmond, Gaetz revealed that he lives with a 19-year-old Cuban male, Néstor Galbán, who is a legal U.S. immigrant, since Galbán was age 12.
Gaetz has not legally adopted Galbán. Gaetz and Galbán's living arrangements had not been public knowledge or disclosed in Gaetz official biography until the revelation in June 2020.
Though they share no consanguinity (blood relation) nor any legal affinity, Gaetz has stated that he considers Galbán's relationship to him as that of a "son".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Gaetz#:~:text=Gaetz%20has%20never%20married.,is%20a%20legal%20U.S.%20immigrant.