Sometimes it’s who you could not possibly suspect more
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This is what too-degenerate-for-MAGA [unless you’re literally Donald Trump] looks like:
The House Ethics Committee said on Monday that its lengthy investigation had found that former Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s initial choice for attorney general, had regularly paid women for sex, had sex with an underage girl and used illegal drugs.
The report was released weeks after Mr. Gaetz withdrew from consideration to be the nation’s chief law enforcement officer and resigned from Congress, and after years in which he had spawned enemies on both sides of the aisle with his bellicose political style.
Mr. Gaetz has denied any wrongdoing.
The panel found that from at least 2017 to 2020, Mr. Gaetz “regularly paid women for engaging in sexual activity with him.” The report said that in 2017, Mr. Gaetz had “engaged in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl,” who was paid.
From 2017 to 2019, the report said, Mr. Gaetz used or possessed illegal drugs, including cocaine and Ecstasy “on multiple occasions,” and accepted lavish gifts, including transportation to and lodging in the Bahamas, in excess of permissible amounts.
“Representative Gaetz has acted in a manner that reflects discreditably upon the House,” the report stated.
Of course, if the real MAGA heads had their way this would not have come out:
The House Ethics Committee’s report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) had been poised to stay officially buried — until two centrist Republicans on the panel unexpectedly voted to release it, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The vote, which took place quietly earlier this month, defied House Speaker Mike Johnson‘s (R-La.) urging that the report stay under wraps.
Gaetz, who has denied any wrongdoing, filed an 11th-hour lawsuit Monday morning seeking to block the report’s publication, alleging it “contains untruthful and defamatory information.”
The effort failed — The committee had voted, and the report was released.
What we’re hearing: Reps. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio) and Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) sided with the committee’s five Democrats in voting to release the report, two sources familiar with the matter told Axios.
Chair Michael Guest (R-Miss.), along with Reps. Michelle Fischbach (R-Minn.) and John Rutherford (R-Fla.), opposed doing so, arguing the panel lost jurisdiction after Gaetz resigned, the sources said.
What they’re saying: Guest, in a statement after the report was released on Monday, confirmed that he “did not vote to support the release of the report.”
The fact that a majority of Republicans on the Ethics Committee were still in the tank for this douchebag despite Trump having cut him loose and his political career being over tells us a lot about how Trump’s total takeover of the Republican Party happened so easily.