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<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fec6a5478bcad60d5c85660ff3e04b16" style="color:#342424;font-size:14px"><strong>Matt Gaetz withdraws from attorney general consideration with House ethics report hanging over his head</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b65f937bd6edfa453bfa9b000aa3da06" style="color:#342424;font-size:14px"><strong>Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration on Thursday, one day after meeting with GOP senators on Capitol Hill</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-60baf9e298d335fbf81b4d0fe1147294" style="color:#342424;font-size:14px"><strong>The Congressman from Florida resigned from the House on Nov. 13, hours after Trump nominated him as the nation’s top law enforcement officer </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e446339878801578860a621fd4309e6" style="color:#342424;font-size:14px"><strong><strong>Inside sources suggested that Gaetz saw the writing on the wall after several Republican senators expressed reservations</strong></strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f6954aab7bc972f5afe8ec959163c2e9" style="color:#342424;font-size:14px"><strong>Subsequently Gaetz withdrew of his own volition rather than have his name pulled publicly Trump </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-75d22911e5f1f48ee3b064780d76df40" style="color:#342424;font-size:14px"><strong>Gaetz, 42, said in an X post he “had excellent meetings with Senators” before adding that “it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition” </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5882c3a8730e292ecaf9c8a73548ee62" style="color:#342424;font-size:14px"><strong>Gaetz resigned from the House within hours of Trump nominating him as the nation’s top law enforcement officer on Nov. 13</strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>“There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle, Trump’s DOJ must be in place and ready on Day 1.” Attorney General-designate Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his name from consideration for the position on Thursday </strong></p>



<p>Attorney General-designate and long time Trump ally, Matt Gaetz, withdrew his name from consideration on Thursday, one day after <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/20/us-news/ag-pick-matt-gaetz-back-on-capitol-hill-to-schmooze-senators-with-vp-elect-jd-vance/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">meeting with GOP senators</a> on Capitol Hill , as speculated, with the specter of a potentially damning congressional ethics report still hanging over his head.<br>Gaetz, 42, said in an X post he “had excellent meetings with Senators” before adding that “it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition.”<br>“There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle, thus I’ll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as Attorney General,” he continued.<br> “Trump’s DOJ must be in place and ready on Day 1.”</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>GOP Matt Gaetz [left], visited senators on Capitol Hill on Wednesday before his withdrawal. <strong>Gaetz [R-FL]</strong>, had just resigned Nov 13, within hours of Trump putting up his name for AG</strong></p>



<p>“I remain fully committed to see that Donald J. Trump is the most successful President in history,” the former Republican congressman went on. “I will forever be honored that President Trump nominated me to lead the Department of Justice and I’m certain he will Save America.”<br>Gaetz resigned from the House on Nov. 13, hours after Trump nominated him as the nation’s top law enforcement officer.<br>Sources familiar with the confirmation fracas suggested that Gaetz saw the writing on the wall after several Republican senators expressed reservations and withdrew of his own volition rather than have his name pulled publicly by the president-elect.<br>“He didn’t have the votes and realized it,” one insider said, while another claimed Gaetz and his allies had been “very confident” as recently as Wednesday about taking up the post.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Recently resigned GOP Rep, Gaetz, said in a post on X that his nomination was becoming a “distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition”</strong></p>



<p>A source at the Hill said Gaetz, a political lightening rod even within his house caucus, was shown a private whip count shortly before he withdrew, demonstrating in black and white that he had “no path to confirmation.”<br>The path for Gaetz appears to have been blighted by the re-emergent details of a sex trafficking probe by the Justice Department, which incidentally concluded early 2023 without charges brought against Gaetz. There is also the matter of an ongoing House Ethics Committee investigation of alleged drug abuse and sexual misconduct &#8211; among other transgressions.<br>Female witnesses who testified to both federal and congressional investigators alleged that the then-congressman had sex with them for money — transaction records unearthed by the media suggest the Congressman made more than $10,000 in Venmo payments to services.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Informed Hill sources say Gaetz was shown a senate vote count that demonstrated he didn’t have a path to be confirmed </strong></p>



<p>At least one of those witnesses also claimed that she saw Gaetz having sex with a 17-year-old girl at a party in July 2017, during his first term in Congress, according to Joel Leppard, an Orlando-based lawyer representing the females accusing the GOP politician who until last week represented a Florida congressional district.<br>CNN chief legal correspondent Paula Reid claimed <a href="https://x.com/PaulaReidCNN/status/1859651549993238811">on X</a> that Gaetz also bowed out 45 minutes after she called him to seek comment on a report about a second sexual encounter with the same underage girl in 2017.<br>Gaetz has vehemently denied all allegations, saying the claims from witnesses “are invented and would constitute false testimony to Congress” and “should be viewed with great skepticism.”<br>The House Ethics Committee met on Wednesday for a closed-door vote on whether to release any findings on the former GOP member. </p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Gaetz resigned from his congressional seat after Trump announced his nomination for attorney general. However his <strong>nomination came amid a House Ethics investigation.</strong> </strong></p>



<p>When the lawmakers emerged after two hours of deliberations, Committee Chairman Michael Guest [R-Miss.], announced that members reached “no agreement on releasing the report&#8221;. <br>Inside sources revealed nature of the deadlock, along party lines, with the 10-member, evenly divided panel fell short of a single Republican crossing voting in favor of publishing contents of the report.<br>Not relenting, Rep. Sean Casten [D-Ill] pulled the trigger on a privileged resolution that would have forced a House vote within two legislative days to reveal the full report.<br>Such resolutions can be tabled by a simple majority, though moderate House Republicans had already indicated skepticism as to whether the conference would be united over the ethics vote.<br>It was slated to come to the floor of the lower chamber after the Thanksgiving holiday recess.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>President-elect Trump said Gaetz has a “bright future” on Truth Social after the former congressman withdrew himself from consideration, just as Trump ally Elon Musk described Gaetz as a potential “Hammer of Justice” for the Trump administration.</strong></p>



<p>Ethics members are still scheduled to meet Dec. 5 for another discussion on whether to put out the report despite the departure of Gaetz from Congress.<br>A GOP aide previously had predicted that Gaetz would not be confirmed in the Senate, saying: “This is all a play to become a martyr to boost gubernatorial prospects,” in Florida, come 2026<br>Another had speculated on the condition of anonymity that many Republican lawmakers were fearful of expressing their true assessment of Gaetz because they didn’t “want to be on the prosecution list” in the next administration.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>AG nomination dead on arrival? Some GOP insiders believe the nomination was a dress rehearsal aimed at boosting the chances for Gaetz in the Florida gubernatorial race in 2026</strong></p>



<p>The President-Elect <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113522181118234752" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">responding</a> to the development said: “I greatly appreciate the recent efforts of Matt Gaetz in seeking approval to be Attorney General. He was doing very well but, at the same time, did not want to be a distraction for the Administration, for which he has much respect.”<br>“Matt has a wonderful future, and I look forward to watching all of the great things he will do!” the president-elect praised his former pick, without indicating whether that included holding elected office.</p>



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Trump Attorney General nominee, GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz [FL], withdraws from consideration, with House ethics report hanging over his head
