{"id":2821,"date":"2024-11-22T22:01:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T22:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gaetz-joins-cameo-charging-hundreds-for-personalized-video-messages\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T22:01:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T22:01:10","slug":"gaetz-joins-cameo-charging-hundreds-for-personalized-video-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gaetz-joins-cameo-charging-hundreds-for-personalized-video-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaetz joins Cameo, charging hundreds for personalized video messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Matt Gaetz is following in the footsteps of another Republican who left Congress under a cloud of controversy \u2026 by joining Cameo.<\/p>\n<p>A day after withdrawing from consideration as Donald Trump\u2019s attorney general \u2014 and hours after the now-former Florida representative said in an interview that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/22\/matt-gaetz-congress-comeback-00191270\" target=\"_blank\"><u>he would not return for the next Congress<\/u><\/a> \u2014 Gaetz created an account on the app where celebrities and other public figures can charge hundreds of dollars or more for personalized video messages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI served in Congress. Trump nominated me to be US Attorney General (that didn\u2019t work out). Once I fired the House Speaker,\u201d reads the profile for the \u201cFormer Florida Congressman\u201d that\u2019s charging upwards of $500 a video. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kadiagoba\/status\/1860060622626652633\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Semafor first reported Gaetz\u2019s account<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz follows his one-time colleague, former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) \u2014 who was expelled from Congress late last year after a scathing ethics report into his conduct \u2014 in attempting to cash in on his fame on Cameo. Santos, who lists himself as a \u201cFormer congressional \u2018icon,\u2019\u201d charges upwards of $250 for his videos.<\/p>\n<p><i>Olivia Beavers contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Gaetz is following in the footsteps of another Republican who left Congress under a cloud of controversy \u2026 by joining Cameo. A day after withdrawing from consideration as Donald Trump\u2019s attorney general \u2014 and hours after the now-former Florida representative said in an interview that he would not return for the next Congress \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}