Gaetz is meeting with Senate Republicans as the House ethics panel considers releasing a report

The report of Matt Gaetz, whose nomination to be the next president-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general, failed to be released

Gaetz, a conservative firebrand from Florida and a Trump defender, resigned from his seat before the panel voted on the report, and insists that he did nothing wrong.

Gaetz, who led the charge to oust former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, alienated many of his fellow House Republicans for launching the chamber into weeks of chaos as they sorted out whom to elect speaker. McCarthy openly said Gaetz was trying to end the ethics probe and that the committee needed to complete its work.

Gaetz had sex with a child at a party in July of last year, according to one of his clients. The woman wrote about Gaetz’s payment methods with amounts and dates on each occasion.

The U.S. House Committee on Ethics is deadlocked on whether to release its report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, whose nomination to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general has been plagued by controversy.

After meeting behind closed doors for about two hours Wednesday, panel Chair Michael Guest, R-Miss., told reporters “there was not an agreement by the committee to release the report.”

The matter will be discussed in a meeting on December 5, after the Ranking Member Susan Wild said there was no consensus on it.

Wild said that a vote was taken. “As many of you know, this committee is evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans — five Dems, five Republicans — which means that in order to affirmatively move something forward, somebody has to cross party lines and vote with the other side … that did not happen in today’s vote.”

House Speaker Johnson warned the report would open “Pandora’s box” because the panel wouldn’t publicly reveal information about probes of lawmakers who weren’t long members of the House.

The ethics chair said that the speaker would not be influencing the committee’s decision. When we meet, we will make a decision as a committee.

Rep. Susan Wild, the top Democrat on the panel, told reporters about the report, “it should certainly be released to the Senate, and I think it should be released to the public, as we have done with many other investigative reports in the past.”

The panel can release their reports after members leave, said Kedric Payne, a former House ethics attorney and currently with the Campaign Legal Center. They just typically don’t.”

The Movie About Gaetz’s Nomination and the Re-election of Donald J. Gaetz to the Electoral Post-Newtonian Cabinet

The process around Gaetz’s nomination is turning into a mob, and allegations are being used as if they are true. I have seen this movie before.” He urged his colleagues to let Gaetz make his case, but didn’t indicate that he would vote for him.

Trump said “no” when asked if he was reconsidering Gaetz’s nomination. Several Republican Senators argue that Trump should install the people he want in top Cabinet positions after winning the election.