Matt Gates

Extracted Attributes

• Born

  1982-05-07

• Education

  Juris Doctor (J.D.) from College of William & Mary (2007)

• Full Name

  Matthew Louis Gaetz II

• Known For

  Defending Florida's 'stand-your-ground law', initiating motion to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

• Birthplace

  Fort Walton Beach, Florida, USA

• Profession

  Politician, Lawyer

• Bar Admission

  Florida Bar (2008)

• Controversies

  Accused of child sex trafficking and statutory rape (DOJ decided not to charge); House Ethics Committee found evidence of paying for sex (including with a minor), illegal drug use, accepting impermissible gifts of luxury travel, and assisting a woman with a passport falsely indicating she was a constituent.

• Political Ideology

  Libertarian populist, Far-right politics

• Political Affiliation

  Republican

Timeline

• Born Matthew Louis Gaetz II. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1982-05-07

• Earned a law degree from the College of William & Mary. (Source: web_search_results)

  2007

• Admitted into the Florida Bar. (Source: web_search_results)

  2008

• Began serving in the Florida House of Representatives. (Source: summary)

  2010

• Gained national attention for defending Florida's 'stand-your-ground law' during his time in the Florida House. (Source: summary)

  2010

• Concluded his service in the Florida House of Representatives. (Source: summary)

  2016

• Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Florida's 1st congressional district. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2016

• Began serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 1st congressional district. (Source: summary)

  2017

• Accused of child sex trafficking and statutory rape, though the Department of Justice later decided not to charge him. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2020

• Initiated a motion that led to the removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. (Source: summary)

  2023-10

• Donald Trump announced his nomination for Matt Gaetz to serve as United States Attorney General. (Source: summary)

  2024-11-13

• Resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives following Trump's Attorney General nomination announcement. (Source: summary)

  2024-11-13

• Withdrew his name from consideration for the Attorney General position. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2024-11-20

• A House Ethics Committee report was released, finding evidence that Gaetz had paid for sex (including with a minor) and used illegal drugs during his congressional tenure. (Source: summary)

  2024-12

• Began hosting a political talk show, 'The Matt Gaetz Show', on One America News Network. (Source: summary)

  2025-01

Matt Gaetz

Matthew Louis Gaetz II ( GAYTS; born May 7, 1982) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 1st congressional district from 2017 until his resignation in 2024. His district included all of Escambia, Okaloosa, and Santa Rosa counties, and portions of Walton County. A member of the Republican Party and a self-described libertarian populist, Gaetz is widely regarded as a proponent of far-right politics as well as a staunch ally of Donald Trump. In October 2023, Gaetz filed a motion to vacate which led to the removal of Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. The son of prominent Florida politician Don Gaetz and grandson of North Dakota politician Jerry Gaetz, Gaetz was raised in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. After graduating from William & Mary Law School, he briefly worked in private practice before running for state representative. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2010 until 2016, and received national attention for defending Florida's "stand-your-ground law". In 2016, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and was re-elected in 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024. In 2020, Gaetz was accused of child sex trafficking and statutory rape. After an investigation, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) decided not to charge him. In December 2024, the House Ethics Committee released a report which found evidence that Gaetz paid for sex—including with a 17-year-old—and abused illegal drugs during his tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives. The committee report did not find sufficient evidence that he had engaged in sex trafficking as defined in federal law. On November 13, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced he would nominate Gaetz to serve as United States attorney general, which some Senate Republicans received poorly. Upon Trump's announcement, Gaetz resigned from the House of Representatives. A week later, he withdrew himself from consideration for the post of attorney general. Though he had already won re-election to the 119th United States Congress, he submitted a letter of resignation prior to the swearing in. Gaetz started hosting The Matt Gaetz Show, a political talk show airing weeknights on One America News Network in January 2025.

Web Search Results

• Mathew Gates - Wikipedia

  Mathew Gates (born June 29, 1975) is a British-American former competitive ice dancer. With Eve Chalom, he is the 1996 Nebelhorn Trophy silver medalist and a two-time (1997, 1999) U.S. national silver medalist. He has medaled seven consecutive times at the US National Championships from Novice to Senior level. Gates is a two-time World competitor and member of Team USA. Gates is a World/International level Coach and Choreographer. ## Personal life [...] Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia ## Contents # Mathew Gates | Mathew Gates | | | --- | --- | | Born | (1975-06-29) June 29, 1975 (age 50) Hitchin, England | | Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | | Figure skating career | | | Country | United States | | Skating club | Dallas FSC | | Began skating | 1988 | | Retired | 2003 | [...] Former coaching partners include Nikolai Morozov "Nikolai Morozov (figure skater)") (Hackensack, NJ) Shae-Lynn Bourne, Svetlana Kulikova, Dmitry Palamarchuk (Connecticut) and Natalia Mishkutinok (Dallas, TX) Gates is an ISU Technical Specialist. Gates currently coaches in Delaware (Greater Philadelphia area) Gates travels to choreograph for international skaters throughout North America and Europe. ## Programs ### With Chalom

• Is Matt Gaetz 'an accomplished attorney'? Digging into Trump AG ...

  Image 2: Matt Gaetz, then a Republican representative from Florida, speaks Feb. 23, 2024, during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP)Image 3: Matt Gaetz, then a Republican representative from Florida, speaks Feb. 23, 2024, during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP) Matt Gaetz, then a Republican representative from Florida, speaks Feb. 23, 2024, during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP) [...] He earned a law degree from the College of William & Mary in 2007 and was admitted into the Florida Bar in 2008. He worked for the law firm AnchorsGordon (previously known as Keefe, Anchors & Gordon) in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, which is part of the congressional district Gaetz represented. [...] Gaetz received a law degree from the College of William & Mary in 2007 and was admitted into the Florida Bar in 2008. He practiced for a firm headquartered in Fort Walton Beach for about eight years, much of that time while also serving as a state legislator.

• Matt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a ...

  Watch CBS News # Matt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state laws Updated on: December 23, 2024 / 7:38 PM EST / CBS News Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican who briefly stood to become President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be attorney general, was found by congressional ethics investigators to have paid numerous women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex, and to have purchased and used illegal drugs, including from his Capitol Hill office. [...] Those are among the findings of the long-running investigation by the House Ethics Committee into Gaetz, which concluded the former Florida congressman violated multiple state laws related to sexual misconduct while in office. The full report was released by the committee Monday. [...] In addition to sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, the report also accused Gaetz of accepting gifts of luxury travel in excess of permissible limits with the 2018 trip to the Bahamas. And it said he arranged for his chief of staff to assist a woman with whom he had engaged in sexual activity in obtaining a passport, falsely indicating to the State Department that she was one of his constituents.

• Matt Gaetz Is Winning - The Atlantic

  ## Site Navigation ## Sections games promo icon ## The Print Edition Audio Crossword Puzzle Magazine Archive Your Subscription # Matt Gaetz Is Winning But what’s the prize he’s after? Matt Gaetz, wearing a red tie under a black overcoat, smiles for a camera while standing in front of an elevator lobby. Matt Gaetz, wearing a red tie under a black overcoat, smiles for a camera while standing in front of an elevator lobby. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. [...] Picture of Matt Gaetz shaking hands with former U.S. President Donald Trump during a rally at the Banks County Dragway on March 26, 2022 in Commerce, Georgia. [...] When Matt Gaetz spotted me outside his office door one afternoon early last November, he popped in his AirPods and started speed walking down the hall. I took off after him, waving and smiling like the good-natured midwesterner I am. “Congressman, hi,” I said, suddenly wishing I’d worn shoes with arch support. “I just wanted to introduce myself!” I had prepared a long list of questions, hoping for a thoughtful conversation but ready for a tense one. He was a firebrand, after all, or so said the

• New report says Matt Gaetz may have violated laws ...

  There is substantial evidence that Gates violated house rules related to prostitution, statutory rape, elicit drug use, impermissible gifts.