Matt Gaetz Launches New PAC in Time for Ethics Report Release
A source close to Gaetz confirmed that the former congressman plans to use the report as a fundraising tool.
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Matt Gaetz has launched a new PAC to use the imminent release of his House Ethics Committee report as a fundraising opportunity, an insider has claimed.
A source close to the former congressman said he plans to spin any blowback from the report’s findings into political support for his new Florida Firebrand PAC, which he serves as chairman.
The PAC’s missive aims to “protect conservative values and common sense solutions” that make “Florida and our country great.” Among the PAC’s other pillars of focus include, border security, election integrity, banning congressional stock trading, and “defeating the woke mob.”
The House report, which committee members secretly voted to release by end of year, is expected to distill a nearly three-year probe into allegations against Gaetz, including illicit drug use, sex trafficking, and other misdeeds.
Gaetz, who was initially tapped to be President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general, resigned from Congress on Nov. 13, putting an end to the House investigation days before its findings could see the light of day.
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He turned his focus to his nomination, though was dogged by the investigation until he dropped out of the running on Nov. 21.
Gaetz rebuked the allegations surrounding him as he announced that he would be withdrawing from consideration. He wrote, “There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle, thus I’ll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as Attorney General.”
In November, in response to an ABC News report that a woman testified to the House committee that she had sex with Gaetz at a house party when she was 17, Gaetz called the allegations “invented and would constitute false testimony to Congress.”
The Daily Beast has contacted Gaetz’s PAC for comment.
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