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Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) abruptly withdrew his bid to be President-elect Donald Trump's next attorney general.

In a statement posted on X on Thursday, Gaetz claimed he was withdrawing from the process to prevent becoming a "distraction."

News that a California woman told police she was trapped in a hotel room and sexually assaulted by a President-elect Donald Trump Cabinet pick has stunned a shellshocked nation.

The police report revealed by CNN Thursday morning details disturbing allegations brought against Fox News host and Trump's choice for Defense secretary Pete Hegseth, among them that the woman remembered repeatedly saying "No."

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Symone Sanders Townsend joined in to talk about the chaos surrounding Rep. Matt Gaetz's nomination to be Donald Trump's next attorney general and the cloud being cast over it by a reportedly "damaging" House Ethics Committee report.

With the Florida Republican meeting with GOP senators this week and attempting to downplay accusations he engaged in drug and sex parties with underaged women reportedly alleged in the report, Sanders Townsend wondered aloud why the wife of Gaetz has not come forward to defend her husband.

She also singled out Fox News personality Pete Hegseth who is having to deal with a police report that details an alleged sexual assault in 2017 as he works toward becoming Trump's next Defense Department secretary.

House speaker Mike Johnson made things worse for Matt Gaetz for weighing in on the release of a "pretty nasty" House Ethics Committee report on his alleged sexual misconduct, according to that panel's former chairman.

Donald Trump nominated the Florida Republican for attorney general the day before the report on sex trafficking allegations was set to be released, and Johnson has said the findings should not be released now that Gaetz has resigned his congressional seat, but former ethics chair Charlie Dent told CNN the speaker should have stayed out of the fracas.

Donald Trump sought to distance himself from the controversial Project 2025 blueprint for remaking government during his re-election campaign, but he has already named at least four individuals associated with the plan to serve in his administration.

The president-elect has tapped Tom Homan as "border czar," John Ratliffe as CIA director, Brendan Carr as head of the Federal Communications Commission and Pete Hoekstra as ambassador to Canada, and all four are credited by name in the 920-page manifesto, and so is Russ Vought, whom he's likely to appoint to lead the White House budget office, reported the Washington Post.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), embroiled in scandals surrounding an ethics report into allegations of child sex trafficking and other offenses, is grabbing headlines as Republicans scramble to decide whether they support making the findings public before hearings into his nomination for attorney general. But presidential strategist Ashley Etienne thinks Gaetz isn't even the most dangerous nominee people should have their eyes on.

That distinction, she told CNN's Jake Tapper, is former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, whom Trump wants to head up the office of the Director of National Intelligence despite her track record of disbelieving U.S. intelligence and promoting propaganda of foreign dictators.

Donald Trump managed to win a second term in large part due to the frustration of the electorate over prices — but there's a big economic crisis looming over the president-elect's head that could end up defeating him, Heather Long wrote for The Washington Post.

That crisis is the cost of a home.

President-elect Donald Trump has a pressing problem that voters expect him to fix and his solutions will only exacerbate, a new political analysis contends.

Trump's popularity faces imminent peril in the form of a mounting housing crisis that his promised mass deportations, tax cuts and tariff demands will only worsen, Washington Post economics columnist Heather Long argued Wednesday.

CNN host Jim Acosta got into it with Donald Trump ally David Urban Wednesday morning when they discussed the incoming president's nominees coming from the author's list of "Project 2025."

The Heritage Foundation document was written by former and current Trump allies with the intention of putting forth a platform that could be implemented if he were elected. As the document spread, it quickly drew public opposition.

According to MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire, Donald Trump is getting increasing warnings from GOP lawmakers who hold the keys to approving his cabinet choices that four nominees may have an uphill battle.

During the discussion on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," co-host Joe Scarborough offered, "The four most horrifying selections thus far and they actually rank them in order, and I think depending on where you are, you know, you can move that list around, but I would tell you, for a lot of Republicans that are in the Senate and the House and who care about American national security, if you ask them, they will say it is Department of Defense."

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"If you talk to people, again, really conservative Republicans in the House, really conservative republicans in the Senate, they will say it is [DNI nominee] Tulsi Gabbard –– they're horrified by Tulsi Gabbard," he added. "If you talk to a lot of other people, they will say it is Matt Gaetz and John Heilemann has great reporting on that in a second about talking to Republicans on the Hill yesterday. So, it really is -- there are four picks right now that -- and, of course, RFK Jr., the New York Post keeps pounding RFK every day saying how nutty that selection is."

That led co-host Lemire to comment, "To Matt Gaetz, I was talking to a number of Republicans on the Hill yesterday, senators and aides, and there is real doubt that Gaetz can get through –– growing momentum here that this is one pick they will say 'no' to. I'm told some of the senators are telling Trump, 'Look, don't make us vote on this one, because we're going to have to vote against you, don't make us stand up against you, because this one is simply not palatable, we can't do it.'"

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House ethics investigators are reportedly in possession of “numerous” photos from two women who claim former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) paid them for sex.

The new details emerged Tuesday during an appearance by the women’s attorney Joel Leppard on CNN’s “OutFront” days after President-elect Donald Trump tapped Gaetz to lead the Justice Department as attorney general. The women said they were paid by Gaetz for sex on a 2019 trip to New York, which they also said was paid for by Gaetz, Leppard told host Erin Burnett.