Matt Gaetz, the former Florida congressman who resigned on Wednesday (November 13), found himself getting loads of attention after President-Elect Donald Trump named him as his Attorney General pick. The resulting fallout from Matt Gaetz being selected for the role has led to details of a House Ethics Committee probe against the AG hopeful, with a new report highlighting a woman saying that she and the congressman had sex when she was still in high school.
ABC News reports that the unnamed woman testified in front of the House Ethics Committee over the summer as part of the long-running investigation of sex trafficking allegations swirling around Matt Gaetz. The committee’s report was slated to be released but a meeting with members to discuss those terms was canceled on Friday (November 15) amid calls for the report’s release. However, House Speaker Mike Johnson does not want the report’s findings to be released.
The woman shared during her testimony that she and Gaetz, 42, entered a sexual relationship when she was just 17 at the time. Gaetz has since responded to the allegations and framed them as false.
“These allegations are invented and would constitute false testimony to Congress,” Gaetz said to the outlet regarding its report. “This false smear following a three-year criminal investigation should be viewed with great skepticism.”
As noted in the report from ABC News, Justice Department officials launched the probe into Gaetz three years ago which included claims of obstruction of justice but no charges would emerge from their findings.
Back in September of this year, Gaetz issued a response to a series of questions sent to him by the House Ethics Committee regarding the allegations, which wanted to examine the claims of sexual misconduct and drug use claims that were publicly made.
“Your correspondence of September 4 asks whether I have engaged in sexual activity with any individual under 18. The answer to this question is unequivocally NO. You can apply this response to every version of this question, in every forum,” Gaetz shared via social media.
Public skepticism has remained high as Trump has selected several officials and named them as potential appointees for several high-ranking positions in his cabinet. As a result, there has been chatter about Matt Gaetz cropping up on social media, and we’ve got some of those responses below.
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