Days before the report was scheduled to be released to the public and after President-elect Donald Trump named him his choice for attorney general, Gaetz resigned from his position last month.
Following the release of further information on the Ethics Committee’s probe and other accusations, Gaetz retracted his candidacy. In a statement after the study’s publication on Monday,
Ethics Committee Chair Michael Guest, R-Miss., said that he did not vote to release the Gaetz report, even though he does not “challenge the Committee’s findings.”
“The Committee’s long-standing practice is broken by the decision to publish a report after his resignation, and this is a risky departure with potentially disastrous consequences,” he added.
Requests for comment from the office of House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Trump’s transition team were not immediately answered. “To make sure our members know what they can do,
What they can’t do, what crosses the line, and what doesn’t,” said Rep. Glenn Ivey of Maryland, a Democrat and member of the Ethics Committee, in an interview on MSNBC on Monday.
