Aware that he was the target of a federal sex trafficking investigation, Rep. Matt Gaetz told a White House aide he’d asked former Trump administration chief of staff Mark Meadows about a preemptive pardon, according to The Washington Post.
Gaetz, R-Fla., stated he had done nothing wrong, but allegedly said “If the president could give him a pardon, that would be great.”
That claim was reportedly made during former aide Johnny McEntee’s testimony before the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
