The former Republican congressman said he will not return to Congress next year in an interview broadcast today, a day after , amid allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use.
“I will remain in the race but from a different position. I don’t plan to run for the 119th Congress,” Gates said in an interview with conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The deputy, whom the president-elect intended to appoint as minister of justice, and for drug use, but he himself denies having committed anything reprehensible. When Trump announced his nomination for attorney general, Gates resigned as a congressman and said he would not take the seat he won in the election.
The House Ethics Committee has been investigating allegations of sexual misconduct but has been unable to reach an agreement on whether to release its findings.
After the retirement of Gates, , former Attorney General of Florida and his close ally, for Secretary of Justice. Gates praised this choice and insisted that he is the victim of a “smudge” campaign in Washington. “I will run for President Trump. I’ll do whatever he asks of me, as always. But I believe that eight years (that’s how long he was a member of parliament) is enough for the US Congress,” he said in his interview.
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