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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The House Ethics Committee's Report on Matt Gaetz

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, who was Donald Trump's first choice to be Attorney General, denies illegal wrongdoing, but a House investigation into his past conduct finds "substantial evidence" of drug use, prostitution, and statutory rape, vindicating the GOP Senators who looked skeptically on his cabinet nomination. Plus, Trump promises that the GOP will take on Daylight Saving Time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.8

From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:40.4

The House Ethics Committee releases its report in the investigation of alleged misconduct by former Congressman Matt

0:46.0

Gates, finding, quote, substantial evidence, unquote, of drug use, prostitution, and statutory

0:52.5

rape. Meantime, Donald Trump wades into the debate over daylight savings time.

0:57.8

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

1:00.3

We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassel and editorial board member Manet Uquay-Berrua.

1:07.9

About a month after Matt Gates formerly withdrew from his nomination as Donald

1:13.6

Trump's next Attorney General of the United States, the House Ethics Committee has released

1:18.9

its long-running investigation to alleged misconduct by the former congressman. And Kim,

1:25.1

this 37-page report from the Ethics Committee is a pretty ugly document.

1:30.5

It goes through allegations that Gates and one of his associates would find women on this

1:37.5

sugar dating website and initiate contact with them, hold parties with them, where there was

1:42.6

drug use and then payments for

1:45.2

sexual conduct, sexual activity. It says that Mr. Gates did not appear to have negotiated

1:51.5

specific payment amounts, but then goes on to say the women had a general expectation that

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