Fmr. NY Dem. Rep.: ’There Was No Whispering About’ Matt Gaetz’s Sex and Drugs Activities in the House

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JONES: "Yeah, it — look, I mean, having served with Matt, these rumors have been out in the open. There was no whispering about it. In fact, we saw a lot of it come out during the 15 or so ballots that it took to elect Speaker McCarthy speaker, then the first speaker of the House under Republican — under the past Republican majority. You had colleagues, Republican colleagues of his going out in the open talking about the images that he had shared on the House floor and so on and so forth. I want to be clear that there is nothing extraordinary about releasing this report after the Ethics Committee itself has lost jurisdiction. There have been moments throughout history where that has happened. There‘s been some effort to to say that this is some kind of vendetta by the Ethics Committee. That‘s not true at all.”