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Originally Posted by handgroen
Sorry but for the uninitiated, does Gaetz not have an adopted son at all? Or is he just parading his son around?
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Yeah, he seems to legitimately have an adopted son, but he never made that fact widely known, including on press-releases that list his family and pets; his office answers any biographical info requests are describing him as 'single, no children'. Then suddenly he's apparently angry about having his hypothetical parental concern called into question (even though that was not at all what the question was about), and made a big deal about having a non-white son in a congress meeting. It's just a totally out-of-the-blue plot development (hence the Simpsons 'Roy' meme where this character appears and we're expected to just act like he's been in the story the whole time).
I'm going to give Gaetz the benefit of the doubt and assume that it's about 70% him wanting to keep the boy out of the public spotlight, and 30% being unsure of how having a non-white, immigrant son would play with his voters, until an opportunity to score political points presented itself. But those numbers may be backwards.