This article is part of The D. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Multiple media outlets reported Wednesday that the House Ethics Committee had secretly voted to release its report into Gaetz in the coming days. Recall that Gaetz resigned from the House in November just hours before the chamber's ethics panel was set to release a reportedly damning investigation of his conduct related to sex , minors , cash , drugs , and lewd conversations. The questions around Gaetz's conduct played a key role in Gaetz withdrawing his bid to be the nation's top law enforcement official.
Gaetz quickly responded with a lengthy statement declaring his innocence against baseless allegations, and, as he often does, deflecting by attacking members of his own party.
I live a different life now. And yet it's hard to know whether the report's release will change the swaggering Florida Republican's unique standing in the political firmament.
Last week, One America News Network announced Gaetz would host a nightly gabfest on its unflinchingly pro-Trump platform, one that is dwarfed in viewership by Fox News and Newsmax but nonetheless punches well above its weight in the MAGAverse of loyalists to the past and future Presidentβ including Trump himself, who has amplified its conspiracy theory-laden broadcasts.
The fact that two organizations with such diametrically opposed views of the U. Like Trump, Gaetz thought he could simply wave away allegations against him and there would be no consequences.
