After Matt Gaetz ducked the release of a long-awaited Ethics Committee report by resigning from the House, Democrats and Republicans in both chambers say the report investigating allegations that Gaetz sex trafficked a minor should come out anyway.
President-elect Donald Trump shocked Washington on Wednesday when he nominated Gaetz to be the next attorney general. And in the hours after that announcement, Gaetz shocked everyone again when he made it clear he intended to resign, reasoning that he was now in line for that cabinet position.
But it didn’t take long for reports to emerge that the real reason Gaetz was resigning was to dodge the release of the ethics report.