Gaetz hints he’ll expose lawmakers who made ‘me too’ payoffs with public funds
The IndependentSign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Former Florida Representative Matt Gaetz has hinted he may expose lawmakers who he claims made “me too” payoffs to with public funds amid the imminent release of the House Ethics Committee report into his conduct with women. One of the potential action actions included that he would return to Congress and “file a privileged motion to expose every ‘me too’ settlement paid using public funds,” referring to the movement that took off in 2017 in which women began to speak outt about being sexually harassed, abused and assaulted. open image in gallery Matt Gaetz said he could expose lawmakers he claims made ‘me too’ payoffs with public funds His fifth and final point was a kind of A reply on X to his post by Natalie Winters, co-host of Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, tells Gaetz: “It’s giving chaos.” Gaetz smirked in reply: “It is the giving season.”. open image in gallery Matt Gaetz hinted that he could expose lawmakers he claims made ‘me too’ payoffs with public funds Gaetz withdrew his name for consideration as Trump’s nominee to head up the Justice Department following reports that a woman testified to the committee that she had sexual encounters with Gaetz at a party in 2017 when she was 17 years old.