The 2024 United States Presidential Election Thread

[Jimmy King]

 

[Chris]

Had to look this one up and her degree is in French and she said she "accidentally forgot it wasn't in education" when she had to resign from a school board like 15 years ago

 

[Chris]

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5000250-house-ethics-committee-gaetz-report/

The House Ethics Committee met Wednesday but did not release its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), resisting significant pressure to release its findings after President-elect Trump selected the controversial Florida Republican to be his attorney general.

“There is not an agreement by the committee to release the report,” Ethics Chair Michael Guest (R-Miss.) told reporters following a roughly two-hour meeting.

The development caps off a week of speculation regarding the committee’s work, with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle pushing for its publication, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) vigorously advocating for it to remain a secret, and Trump’s team charging ahead with the selection of Gaetz despite the drama.

Details from the report could make their way to the public — or to senators considering Gaetz’s nomination — anyway.

Some of the evidence and testimony reportedly on file with the committee has been leaked to ABC News, and a lawyer for two women who he says spoke to the Ethics Committee has been publicly saying that they told the panel they saw Gaetz “having sex with a minor” at a party.

 

[Chris]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/20/gaetz-investigation-house-ethics-committee-vance/

House Ethics Committee investigators probing sexual misconduct allegations against former congressman Matt Gaetz obtained records showing that he paid more than $10,000 to two women who testified before the committee, according to a person familiar with the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive material.

The records that were exhibited during closed-door testimony displayed 27 PayPal and Venmo payments disbursed between July 2017 and January 2019 totaling over $10,000 paid to the two witnesses, that person said. Some of the payments were for sex, the witnesses testified to the committee. ABC News first reported on the exhibits.

The news comes as the House Ethics Committee declined to release its report probing sexual misconduct allegations against Gaetz (R-Florida), after a closed-door meeting Wednesday, as President-elect Donald Trump’s embattled attorney general pick attempted to sell himself on Capitol Hill to skeptical GOP senators.