“President-elect Donald Trump is dead serious about making him attorney general. Speaker Mike Johnson is pledging to bury a critical House Ethics Committee report into his alleged personal misconduct. But expect this to be a very uncomfortable week for former Rep. Matt Gaetz all the same,” Politico reports.
“There is new pressure to publicize details from investigations centering on allegations of underage sex and drug use by the Florida Republican as a potentially tawdry and dramatic confirmation battle takes shape.”
Playbook notes an attorney representing two women who have made allegations against Gaetz, will do several network TV interviews today and allege that his clients told investigators they attended “sex parties” with the former Florida congressman in 2017 and 2018.
