What Matt Gaetz’s wife had to say after he withdrew from Senate confirmation

After former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration for the attorney general spot, he immediately got support from someone close to home.

On Instagram, wife Ginger Luckey posted a picture of the couple on the steps of Capitol Hill, writing, “The end of an era. No one loves America more than this guy.”

Gaetz’s withdrawal wasn’t a huge shock. The former congressman had been facing major roadblocks to be in president elect Donald Trump’s incoming Cabinet due to allegations that he slept with minors and paid women for sex.

Though the Justice Department investigated the accusations and the case was closed with no charges filed, questions remained about the politician.

The House Ethics Committee will continue looking into the allegations that Gaetz paid two women more than $10,000 via Venmo for sex between July 2017 and January 2019.

“It is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction” to the incoming Trump administration,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “There is no time to waste on needlessly protracted Washington scuffle.”

For the time being, Luckey appears to be standing by her man, possibly because the purported misconduct occurred before their relationship began.

The two met in March 2020 during a fundraiser for then No. 45 at at Mar-a-Lago; Gaetz popped the question in the very same place just eight months later.

They married about a year later.

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