House Ethics report says Matt Gaetz regularly paid for sex, including payment to an underage girl

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37% : Questions about those allegations - and about what the House committee had learned - reached a fever pitch last month after Trump named Gaetz as his pick for attorney general.
27% : The report cited "substantial evidence" that from 2017 to 2020, Gaetz "regularly paid women for engaging in sexual activity with him," and from 2017 to 2019, possessed illegal drugs, including cocaine and ecstasy, on "multiple different occasions."
23% : By Jacqueline Alemany, Justine McDaniel and Marianna Sotomayor Washington PostFormer congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) regularly paid for sex, possessed illegal drugs and paid a 17-year-old girl for sex in 2017, according to a 42-page report released by the House Ethics Committee on Monday on President-elect Donald Trump's former pick for attorney general.
14% : "In 2020, while Trump was still in office, the Justice Department began investigating Gaetz over the alleged relationship with a 17-year-old girl and sex-trafficking allegations that related to whether he had paid for her travel.

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