Congress Knew About Matt Gaetz. They hid the truth from the public.

In December 2024, the U.S. House Committee on Ethics completed a draft report concluding that Representative Matt Gaetz had engaged in a wide range of unethical — and in some cases illegal — conduct while serving in Congress.

The report was circulated privately among committee members and staff.

Not long after, Gaetz’s nomination to serve as U.S. Attorney General was quietly withdrawn.

And then the report stayed hidden.

It wasn’t released to the public until last week — nearly a year later — when it confirmed, in stark detail, what myself and many other journalists and investigators had already reported years earlier.

What’s striking isn’t just what the report says. It’s how long Congress knew it — and who stayed silent while voters went to the polls anyway.