Matt Gaetz asked for pardon from Trump over sex trafficking scandal: Report
by Misty Severi, Breaking News Reporter
September 17, 2022 04:01 PM
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was allegedly seeking a preemptive pardon from former President Donald Trump for a Justice Department investigation into whether the congressman violated federal sex laws, a former White House aide testified.
Gaetz told John McEntee, who served as the director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office in the Trump administration, that he had asked Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows for a pardon after he learned that an investigation into him was launched, McEntee testified to the House of Representative select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6.
McEntee added that Gaetz told him “he did not do anything wrong but they are trying to make his life hell, and you know, if the president could give him a pardon, that would be great," sources who have heard the testimony told the Washington Post.
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