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The House Committee on Ethics announced two separate probes into Reps. Matt Gaetz and Tom Reed Friday over allegations of sexual misconduct Friday.
The allegations against Gaetz, R-Fla., include campaign finance violations as well as claims of taking bribes and using drugs, according to the committee statement. Once again, the office will reiterate, these allegations are blatantly false and have not been validated by a single human being willing to put their name behind them, Gaetz’s office said in a statement.
Gaetz has been at the center of growing scrutiny following news that the Justice Department had launched a probe into sex trafficking allegations involving an underage girl.
Florida congressman has publicly denied any wrongdoing
Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz hired a legal team to fight the unfounded allegations against him as the Justice Department investigates sex trafficking allegations involving underage girls. Matt has always been a fighter, a spokesperson for Gaetz said in a statement to Fox News Friday. A fighter for his constituents, a fighter for the country, and a fighter for the Constitution, the spokesperson continued. He’s going to fight back against the unfounded allegations against him.
The spokesperson added that Gaetz’s legal team, led by Marc Mukasey and Isabelle Kishner, will take the fight to those trying to smear his name with falsehoods.
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Employees of Rep. Matt Gaetz’s office issued a letter of defense of their boss, calling recent allegations against him false. However, none of them put their names to the letter, signing it, Women of the Office of U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz. After shocking allegations last week in the press, we, the women of Congressman Matt Gaetz’s office, feel morally obligated to speak out, the statement read. The women said that amid their many hours with the Florida Republican, they had found him to be a principled and morally grounded leader.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks to reporters outside a closed-door meeting where Catherine Croft, a State Department adviser on Ukraine, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper testify as part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. AP
As Rep. Matt Gaetz faces a brewing sex-trafficking scandal, he hasn t heard a peep from Trumpworld. He hasn t done a single thing to make people comfortable to defend him, a Trump confidant told Politico.
The person added that some of Gaetz s responses to allegations against him were an absolutely embarrassing trainwreck.
Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida gained a reputation as one of then-President Donald Trump s most loyal attack dogs on Capitol Hill, going to bat for Trump in oversight hearings, berating members of the so-called deep state, and endorsing Trump s most outlandish conspiracy t