Matt Gaetz is not having a good week. It just got worse.
The House Ethics Committee, which is investigating Gaetz for illegal drug use as a member of Congress, received an affidavit alleging that Gaetz attended a party in Florida in 2017 where the use of cocaine and MDMA had taken place. ABC News reported Friday. The statement also alleges that the girl at the center of a Justice Department investigation into Gaetz attended the party and was seen naked.
The Justice Department began investigating Gaetz in 2020 over allegations that the Florida representative paid a convicted sex trafficker to have sex with the girl, who was 17 at the time. He concluded the investigation in 2023 and declined to charge Gaetz.
Gaetz has denied using drugs while a member of Congress. But, according to Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin, he to boast to colleagues about taking erectile dysfunction medications and energy cocktails to “last through the night.” He also has allegedlystanding on the floor of the house, showed his colleagues nude photos and videos of women he had slept with.
The Florida Republican made headlines earlier this week after he and Wisconsin Rep. Derrick Van Orden. exchanged insults amid House GOP chaos over foreign aid programs. He also drew the ire of another colleague, New York Rep. Mike Lawler, who said Thursday accused he and his “seven useful idiots” sowed division within the Republican caucus by deciding to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
McCarthy, for his part, sharp to his refusal to end the ethics investigation into Gaetz as the motivation behind Gaetz’s resignation motion in October. Gaetz has admitted as much in private.
Whatever the results of the ethics investigation, it’s clear his House colleagues are fed up with him.
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