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Diamond Member
So now it is making sense that Trump made such a batshit crazy choice for AG: He is throwing his little perv buddy a lifeline. Birds of a feather flock together.
The House Ethics Committee was set to vote this week on releasing a report about Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), who resigned from Congress on Wednesday after being picked as President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general, according to four people familiar with the matter.
The Ethics Committee is still expected to meet and could release the report as soon as Friday, said the people familiar, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive conversations.
Gaetz has been under investigation by House Ethics, a bipartisan committee made up of an equal number of Republicans and Democrats, for allegations that he may have engaged in sexual misconduct and illegal drug use and accepted improper gifts. If a lawmaker is under investigation by the committee and resigns, is expelled, or leaves Congress, the Ethics Committee immediately ceases any ongoing investigation.
While the panel no longer has jurisdiction to punish a former member, the bipartisan panel could vote to release the report publicly if a majority of committee members agree to do so, or transmit it to the Justice Department or the Senate Ethics Committee.
Gaetz did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The news that the committee was supposed to vote this week was first reported by Punchbowl News.
It is not yet clear if there is any connection between the timing of the Gaetz announcement and the possible release of the report on the investigation.
After Trump met with House Republicans in Washington on Wednesday morning, Gaetz flew back to Florida with him on his private plane, according to three different people familiar with the matter, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive issues.
By the afternoon, Trump named Gaetz as his pick for attorney general, a move that stunned many Senate and House Republicans. Not long after, the Florida lawmaker submitted his resignation, with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) telling reporters that it was “effective immediately.”
The investigation into Gaetz by the 10-member panel, which rarely discloses information about ongoing investigations, said this summerthat it had “determined that certain of the allegations merit continued review.” The committee announced that it had also identified new lines of inquiry that merited review, including whether Gaetz “dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct.”
The House Ethics Committee was set to vote this week on releasing a report about Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), who resigned from Congress on Wednesday after being picked as President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general, according to four people familiar with the matter.
The Ethics Committee is still expected to meet and could release the report as soon as Friday, said the people familiar, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive conversations.
Gaetz has been under investigation by House Ethics, a bipartisan committee made up of an equal number of Republicans and Democrats, for allegations that he may have engaged in sexual misconduct and illegal drug use and accepted improper gifts. If a lawmaker is under investigation by the committee and resigns, is expelled, or leaves Congress, the Ethics Committee immediately ceases any ongoing investigation.
While the panel no longer has jurisdiction to punish a former member, the bipartisan panel could vote to release the report publicly if a majority of committee members agree to do so, or transmit it to the Justice Department or the Senate Ethics Committee.
Gaetz did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The news that the committee was supposed to vote this week was first reported by Punchbowl News.
It is not yet clear if there is any connection between the timing of the Gaetz announcement and the possible release of the report on the investigation.
After Trump met with House Republicans in Washington on Wednesday morning, Gaetz flew back to Florida with him on his private plane, according to three different people familiar with the matter, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive issues.
By the afternoon, Trump named Gaetz as his pick for attorney general, a move that stunned many Senate and House Republicans. Not long after, the Florida lawmaker submitted his resignation, with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) telling reporters that it was “effective immediately.”
The investigation into Gaetz by the 10-member panel, which rarely discloses information about ongoing investigations, said this summerthat it had “determined that certain of the allegations merit continued review.” The committee announced that it had also identified new lines of inquiry that merited review, including whether Gaetz “dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct.”
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