Top Democrat Outed As ‘Ethics’ Committee Member Who Leaked Gaetz Investigation Info

Ironically, the majority of the leaked information meant to burn former Rep. Matt Gaetz didn’t come from a “hacker”, as we were originally told.

According to multiple sources, President Trump’s initial choice for U.S. Attorney General was the target of a leaker; a sitting member of the ‘Ethics’ Committee — Rep. Susan Wild.

Rep. Susan Wild, the top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee has been outed as the leaker of the Matt Gaetz report.

Where did she go? @RepSusanWild pic.twitter.com/NeNpqUVlqv

— TheTexasOne (@TexasRepublic71) December 11, 2024

Rep. Susan Wild is the ranking Democrat on the House Ethics Committee, which has spent years investigating (having never brought substantive charges of wrongdoing) against Gaetz.

According to Independent Journalist Kyle Becker, since Gaetz resigned his seat in Congress to pursue the Attorney General nomination, Congress lost it’s jurisdiction to release its findings.

Oh, the Irony: Top Democrat on Ethics Committee Outed as Leaker of Gaetz Report

"Rep. Susan Wild, the top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee has been outed as the leaker of the @MattGaetz report.

The House Ethics Committee was going to release a 'damaging' report on Matt… pic.twitter.com/r2Idvkff7l

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) December 10, 2024

That did not stop Susan Wild from “wilding”, and releasing selective damaging information on her own.

The dispute over whether or not to release the information anyway, after Gaetz’ resignation from Congress, apparently did not fall the way Wild wanted it to go.

So she simply leaked the information on her own.

Rep. Wild also skipped the most recent meeting of the Ethics Committee, according to Melanie Zanona, the senior Congressional reporter with Punchbowl News.

NEWS: Rep. Susan Wild, the top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee, will NOT attend today’s Ethics meeting, sources familiar with the matter tell me & @bresreports. The panel is about to meet again on its long-awaited Matt Gaetz report.

There was a dispute over comments made…

— Melanie Zanona (@MZanona) December 5, 2024

Here’s the full text of Nanona’s post for easier reading.

Rep. Susan Wild, the top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee, will NOT attend today’s Ethics meeting, sources familiar with the matter tell me &
@bresreports . The panel is about to meet again on its long-awaited Matt Gaetz report.

There was a dispute over comments made by Wild & Guest after the last meeting.

Wild did not comment.

As we’ve reported, the Gaetz saga has created some rare tension on the normally secretive and bipartisan panel.

It is still unclear whether or not Wild was a no-show for the most recent Ethics Committee meeting because she was barred from attending, or if she simply decided not to take part.

Jed Ober, Wild’s chief of staff, has reportedly stated that the Congresswoman skipped the meeting out of frustration, according to reporting by The Hill.

It remains unclear if Wild voluntarily skipped the Thursday gathering or was asked not to attend, what information she leaked and to whom, and how the panel tracked her back as being the leaker. Two sources said Wild ultimately acknowledged to the panel that she had leaked information.

Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) served as acting ranking member during Thursday’s meeting, according to a source, who noted that any time a member of the panel is absent, there is an acting ranking member in their place.

It also remains unclear if the Pennsylvania Democrat, who is leaving Congress at the end of the year, will be present at Ethics Committee meetings in the future. Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.), the chair of the panel, told reporters that Thursday’s meeting was not the last for the group.

In a statement to The Hill, Wild’s chief of staff, Jed Ober, said the congresswoman skipped last week’s meeting because she was “frustrated” with how the Gaetz report had been handled, and said characterizing her absence as anything more was “inaccurate.”

“Rep. Wild was frustrated by the manner in which the report was handled and didn’t feel it was fruitful to participate in any further meetings on its ‘potential’ release. Characterizing it as anything more is inaccurate. There will be no further statement,” Ober said.

Calls have started to come for Susan Wild’s resignation from the Ethics Committee.

In place of her resignation, others have started demanding that Speaker Mike Johnson remove Wild from the Committee for her — yes, I’ll say it — UNETHICAL behavior on the Ethics Committee.

Now that Susan Wild has proven that she HAS NO ethics, House Speaker Mike Johnson MUST remove Wild from the House Ethics Committee immediately…

— Peter Garland (@TheRealPDQ) December 10, 2024

There “ought to be repercussions”, Speaker Mike Johnson has said concerning Rep. Wild’s unilateral leak of selected portions of the sensitive investigation into Gaetz.

The leak could set a dangerous precedent, according to a report by Axios into the matter.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said there “ought to be repercussions” for anyone who leaked information related to the unreleased Ethics Committee probe into former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) conduct.

Why it matters: The leaks, which have allegedly been traced to the panel’s ranking member, Susan Wild (D-Pa.), could set a dangerous precedent if left unpunished, Johnson told Axios Tuesday

“In my opinion, there ought to be repercussions for that,” Johnson said in a hallway interview. “We can’t set that as a precedent. It’s dangerous.”

Johnson said he had not discussed the prospect of disciplinary action with House Ethics Chairman Michael Guest (R-Miss.) and did not elaborate on what he thought might be appropriate.

Guest told Axios later Tuesday that he hasn’t spoken to Johnson for “a couple of weeks” but would be “happy to” discuss the situation allegedly involving Wild.

But with Wild’s pending departure from Congress in January, Guest said lawmakers “would be limited on anything that could possibly be done within the Ethics environment.”

Another House Republican close to GOP leadership told Axios they doubt there is time for any repercussions to occur.

Unfortunately, it is very possible (likely?) that with RINO’s occupying seats on the same Ethics Committee, the “dangerous” actions of Rep. Wild may attract some momentary harsh words.

But it already seems as if any “action” is being shelved, with the excuse being there simply isn’t time to dish out repercussions for the unethical Ethics Committee member, since she lost her re-election bid, and will shortly be kicked out of Congress all together.

Although that is doubtless a fitting end to Susan Wild’s unethical congressional career, there seems to be something lacking when a member of Congress can leak invalidated information specifically to politically damage another sitting member of Congress, and simply walk away scot-free.

But then again, if the system was working as it should, the change agents of President Trump’s team wouldn’t have won a resounding victory to FIX problems within the government — just like this one.