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Former Congressman Matt Gaetz threatened to rejoin Congress, expose lawmakers’ “Me Too” settlements paid out using taxpayer funds – and then resign from Congress. Matt Gaetz floated the idea after the House Ethics Committee secretly voted to release a ‘damaging’ lawfare report on him. Gaetz resigned from Congress last month after President Trump nominated him as US Attorney General. The House Ethics Committee was going to release a “damaging” report on Matt Gaetz last month, but because he resigned from Congress, the committee lost jurisdiction. Matt Gaetz threatened to air out his colleagues’ dirty laundry and expose every #MeToo settlement...

WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. House Ethics Committee has voted to release its report on former Republican Representative Matt Gaetz, CNN reported on Wednesday, saying the panel's findings could be made public within days as Congress prepares to adjourn for the holidays. The committee's probe centered on allegations against Gaetz of sexual misconduct with a teenage girl and drug use. Gaetz resigned from Congress in November after Donald Trump tapped him to be his attorney general, a bid the former lawmaker later dropped. The Ethics panel met earlier this month and voted secretly to release the report, CNN...

CNN commentator and former Obama advisor Van Jones admitted during a recent podcast appearance that President Trump is “smarter” than “all of his critics” and that he made the entire Democrat party and Democrat media complex “look like idiots.” These remarks came during an interview posted to political commentator Chris Cillizza’s YouTube channel on Friday. Cillizza agreed with Jones’ assessment that “we look like idiots,” commenting, “You’re totally right.” Jones’ revelation is in response to Trump defying all attempts to steal the 2024 election with a sweeping victory on November 5, winning every swing state, 312 electoral votes, the national...

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) isn’t returning to Congress. He resigned when President-elect Donald J. Trump nominated him as our next attorney general, sending shockwaves through Washington. Gaetz would’ve uprooted all the bad apples at the Department of Justice. There was only one problem: He didn’t have the votes for confirmation. When it became clear that nothing could persuade the few GOP senators who were reportedly dead set against him, he withdrew his name from consideration. So, what’s next for the ex-GOP congressman? He’s taking a media job (via Politico): The former lawmaker from Florida's Panhandle and MAGA provocateur will...

“‘You must be wary of those seeking to use their influence and their expertise to wrongful ends.” Those words were spoken at the George Washington Law School commencement ceremony two years ago by the recently defeated Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pa.). This week, the words took on a new meaning after Wild was accused of leaking information from the House Ethics Committee. Wild embodies a party that is in an ethical and political free fall. Wild was fighting to release the report of the investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.). When Gaetz decided to withdraw from Congress, the report was...

Rep. Susan Wild, the top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee has been outed as the leaker of the Matt Gaetz report. The House Ethics Committee was going to release a “damaging” report on Matt Gaetz last month, but because he resigned from Congress, the committee lost jurisdiction. The Democrats on the Committee fiercely worked to release the report amid damaging leaks. Parts of the Gaetz report were selectively leaked to the media, and a ‘hacker’ also obtained a trove of documents from the ‘damaging’ report.

Big news for Steve Bannon tonight 1) The Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) voted tonight 3-2, confirming the offiicial legal position of the House is that the J6 committee was illegitimate, and all subpoenas issued by the committee were also illegitimate. 2) BLAG has now directed the House Office of General Counsel to file an Amicus Brief in support of Steve Bannon with Justice Roberts. 3) Matt Gaetz explains how the BLAG process works, in the video. 4) I spoke with Bannon in the last hour and he is optimistic.

Senate GOP hawks who receive large sums from the defense industry could be mobilizing to tank one of President-elect Donald Trump’s national security nominees. Former Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, nominated by Trump to helm the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, could face opposition from Senate Republicans with hawkish views on national security over her beliefs on Ukraine and government surveillance powers. Though a considerable number of Trump-aligned senators have endorsed Gabbard, citing her decades-long military service and commitment to reforming the country’s intelligence agencies that have been frequently weaponized against the president-elect, GOP senators whose national security...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) said that “As a father, I can understand” President Joe Biden’s “reasoning, given this change in circumstances” for pardoning his son, Hunter and argued that Biden went back on his prior vows that he would not pardon his son due to some of the nominations that President-Elect Donald Trump put forward, and “I am concerned about what’s going to happen to the scope of the pardon power going forward.” Coons said that he thinks the nominations of Kash Patel and Matt Gaetz and the lack of stringent opposition...

Sometimes it is the quiet, elusive ones who come back to haunt you. And for ex-special prosecutor Robert Mueller, one of those might be a Russian billionaire named Oleg Deripaska. The oligarch who once controlled Russia’s largest aluminum empire has been an international man of intrigue in the now-completed and disproven Trump collusion investigation. Deripaska was a disaffected former business client of Donald Trump’s fallen campaign chairman Paul Manafort. He also was a legal research client of Trump-hating, Clinton-aiding British spy Christopher Steele. In his spare time, he was an occasional friendly cooperator with the FBI and its fired deputy...

A former congressional candidate was charged over allegations that he threatened to dispatch a hit squad to murder his political opponent while he was running against Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) William Braddock, 41, of St. Petersburg, Fla. is accused of making the alleged threats on June 8, 2021 — including one where he threatened to “call up my Russian-Ukrainian hit squad” to take out his rival. Prosecutors did not outright name the victim, but at the time, he was vying against fellow Republican Luna and he was allegedly caught on audio calling the lawmaker a “dead squirrel” and “a...

A Florida congressional candidate has obtained a stalking injunction against one of her likely opponents in the race, claiming he conspired with two other potential candidates to kill her. The Tampa Bay Times reports that Anna Paulina Luna, who is running in the Republican primary for the seat being vacated by Rep. Charlie Crist (D) as he seeks the governor's mansion, obtained a temporary injunction against William Braddock, who has previously stated his plans on running against her. “I received information yesterday (at midnight) regarding a plan (with a timeline) to murder me made by William Braddock in an effort...

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It appears that this is as close as we’ll get to the real Matt Gaetz story: his acquaintance, the former tax collector Joel Greenberg, was caught abusing his office to make fake IDs and concealed weapons permits, which led to the discovery of numerous crimes committed by Greenberg in office, financed with money he embezzled and revolving around prostitution and, apparently, trafficking minors to public figures. Greenberg told Barr’s DOJ he could implicate Gaetz in exchange for leniency, and the present investigation into Gaetz was opened.Gaetz’s father Don was then approached by “former” DOJ attorneys and told they could make...

She enabled the race hustlers that destroyed George Zimmerman’s life and plunged America into a racial morass from which it has not yet recovered. At the time, she basked in that destructive glory. She appointed a corrupt special prosecutor and arranged for two biased, corrupt judges — one was so obvious he was disqualified -- who did their best to convict Zimmerman.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) teased a potential run for Florida governor on Saturday in just days after withdrawing his name from consideration for President-elect Donald Trump's Attorney General.

The infuriating story of the Matt Gaetz nomination is a learning opportunity, President Trump nominated Congressman Gaetz to be Attorney General, and the deep state understandably went ballistic, because Gaetz doesn’t mind making enemies; he would clearly enjoy doing exactly what needs to be done at the Dept of Justice. There are four broad categories that must be fixed at Justice: It has too many bureaus, too many agencies, some of which are outright destructive. Most department heads zealously defend the size of their budgets and sizes, even if they want to retool them. A good AG will make the...

“The View” co-hosts just can’t help themselves when it comes to smearing conservatives.As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Sunny Hostin was forced to read legal notes twice earlier this week after smearing Trump cabinet nominees former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) (since withdrawn) and Pete Hegseth. Gaetz has been dogged by baseless sex trafficking allegations for years, while Hegseth has been accused of sexual assault without evidence.On Friday, the women decided to double down on these smears, evidently thinking viewers and their ABC bosses would not call them out.But they once again miscalculated. A fuming Hostin announced she had two legal...

The charming, buttercup-yellow cottage where Truman lives in the movie is still owned by Gaetz’s parents in real life. They leaned into their movie-famous home. A photo of a sign on their white, picket-fence gate announces its connection to the movie, (helpful for ogling tourists) along with the family’s names, including Matt and his sibling, Erin: “The Truman House. Don & Vicky Gaetz. Matthew & Erin.” The Gaetz family purchased the seaside property in 1991 for $125,000. It was one of the first in the master-planned community. However, the classic cottage is now estimated to be worth $2.7 million, according...

It was a long shot, but we all held out hope that Matt Gaetz could beat the odds and become our next attorney general. Once again, though, the RINOs played their dirty games and eked out a victory. But don’t worry—this setback is only temporary, because we’re just getting started. The war is far from over. As we assess what happened and how this loss unfolded, one thing is crystal clear: the Gaetz nomination was killed by a fresh-faced RINO from the same state that brought us one of the most infamous #NeverTrumpers in history—Utah. ... Yes, we finally got...