This is an article about Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominee who faces accusations of sexual misconduct. No, not Pete Hegseth, the pick to lead the Department of Defense who a woman accuses of raping her at a conference in 2017; no, not Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the serial adulterer whose former live-in nanny says she was groped by the anti-vaccine activist; and no, not Linda McMahon, the former WWE executive accused, per CNN, of knowingly allowing an employee “to use his position as ringside announce to sexually exploit children.”

No, this is an article about Matt Gaetz, Trump’s pick for attorney general who stands accused of having sex with a minor at drug-fueled parties while serving as a member of the U.S. Congress. The evidence against Gaetz made public so far is mounting: multiple women have now come forward to claim not only that the former Florida lawmaker paid them for sex, but that they personally witnessed him having sex with a 17-year-old girl. Venmo transactions show he paid those women thousands of dollars, and wrote one a check for “tuition reimbursement”; Gaetz also reimbursed them over PayPal, relying on an account registered to Nestor Galban, a man who he claimed in 2020 was his “adopted son” (that claim came days after Gaetz’s friend, Joel Greenberg, was arrested on charges including child sex trafficking).

What else could be in the House Ethics Committee’s report on Gaetz is anyone’s guess. On........

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