Last month, Mr McCarthy told CBS News that Mr Gaetz filed the motion to vacate the speakership which led to his removal after he refused to put the kibosh on the ethics investigation, which lay dormant for years but picked up steam after the Justice Department probe was closed.

“It was purely Matt coming to me trying … [to get] me to do something illegal to stop the Ethics Committee from moving forward in an investigation that was started long before I became speaker,” he said.

So we have a former Speaker of the House has flat out stated that Matt Gaetz asked him to commit a crime. Let’s throw solicitation on the pile of crimes Gaetz has been accused of.