Mat Staver, founder and president of Freedom Counsel, a Christian legal ministry in Orlando, harshly dismissed the congressman Thursday in a statement titled “Matt Gaetz is not qualified to be U.S. Attorney General.”

“President-elect Donald Trump quickly named many good options to serve in his cabinet. But Matt Gaetz is not one of them,” Staver wrote.

“The nomination of Matt Gaetz for Attorney General is shocking and disappointing to those who have followed this man and the horrific scandals and serious allegations regarding sex parties and drugs during his tenure in the United States Congress. Gaetz’s resignation as Attorney General immediately after his name surfaced cannot be explained except that this resignation now ends the US House Ethics investigation.

“Clearly, Gaetz does not want America to know the outcome of the Ethics investigation. Matt Gaetz has neither the experience nor the moral character to serve as the United States’ top law enforcement official. Gaetz is doing President Trump and all of America a favor “He should do it and withdraw his name from consideration. It would save him from great embarrassment. America deserves better.”

Staver, the attorney who opposed the abortion-rights 4th Amendment before the state Supreme Court last year, noted that Gaetz had less than three years of legal experience at a law firm in Fort Walton Beach before starting his career. His political career began in the Florida House of Representatives in 2010.

In a statement accompanying his written remarks, Staver cites multiple allegations of Gaetz’s fondness for sex and drugs (the House Ethics investigation included allegations that Gaetz had sex with a minor).

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“Numerous news articles have cataloged serious allegations against Gaetz, including using Venmo to pay women for sex. text messagesattending sex parties and paying money to an underage child for sex,” the statement states.

“Witnesses They stated that they saw Gaetz taking drugs at these sex parties. And his close relationship with former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenburg also adds to these serious allegations. greenburg Now service time “He was imprisoned for using his position to obtain illicit profits and hosting orgies for his friends, including Gaetz.”

Meanwhile, John Clune, attorney for the young woman Gaetz allegedly had sex with when she was a minor, is now calling on the House Ethics Committee to release its report.

“Mr. “The possible nomination of Gaetz as Attorney General is a reversal in a truly dark series of events,” Clune said. X. “We support the Parliamentary Ethics Committee’s immediate publication of its reports. “He was a high school student and there were eyewitnesses.”

U.S. Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican who sits on the Judiciary and Intelligence committees. also called For the publication of the ethics report. “I don’t want there to be any limitations on what the Senate can consider,” he said.