– I am going to ask that the ethics committee does not make that report public because that is not how we do things here in the House, says Johnson.
Since 2021, Gaetz has been under investigation by the Congressional Ethics Committee following allegations of sex with minors and human trafficking. Gaetz has consistently denied the allegations against him.
The report was expected to be released next week, but Gaetz resigned from Congress after being tapped as attorney general by Trump. The congressional committee thus no longer has jurisdiction to investigate the charges against him.
Elected representatives on the Republican and Democratic sides have, however, requested that the report be published anyway, which Johnson is against.
– The rules in the House have always been that a former member is outside the jurisdiction of the ethics committee. I think it would be a terrible breach of protocol and tradition, he says further.
Donald Trump has nominated Gaetz to be attorney general. He must still be approved in the Senate.
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