Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is getting his own show on One America News, the conservative network indicated, weeks after Gaetz bowed out of the running to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general amid allegations of sexual misconduct.
Then-U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz speaks during the Republican National Convention session at Fiserv Forum ... [+]
The network debuted graphics for “The Matt Gaetz Show” on its website, declaring the program is “coming soon,” but it has not published a press release formally announcing Gaetz’s new gig.
Gaetz appeared to confirm the new role on X Tuesday, thanking another user who posted about the show.
Gaetz teased that he would still be involved in politics after dropping out of the running to be attorney general last month, telling pro-Trump podcaster Charlie Kirk, “I’m still going to be in the fight, but it’s going to be from a new perch.”
The GOP-controlled House rejected efforts last week to release an Ethics Committee report detailing its investigation into Gaetz’s conduct, voting down Democrat-backed resolutions that would have forced the report’s release. Republicans argued the committee no longer had jurisdiction over Gaetz since he resigned from Congress.
Gaetz was a firebrand and a staunch Trump loyalist in the House—and a frequent guest on conservative TV—leading the charge to push out House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Gaetz withdrew from consideration to be Trump’s attorney general when it appeared he did not have the votes to pass Senate muster and as lawmakers were debating whether to release the ethics report. Gaetz resigned from Congress hours after Trump announced him as his attorney general pick. Gaetz has been under investigation for years—first by the Justice Department then the House ethics committee—over whether he had sex with a minor and paid for women to travel with him in violation of federal sex trafficking laws. The Justice Department did not bring charges against Gaetz and he has denied the allegations. New details of the allegations against Gaetz were aired after Trump tapped him as attorney general, including that he paid two women for sex and one of them witnessed Gaetz having sex with a 17-year-old, according to a lawyer for the two women, who testified to the House ethics committee. Gaetz has long denied all of the allegations against him.