When President-elect Donald Trump chose former lawmaker Matt Gaetz as his Attorney General, heads exploded across the left and the D.C. establishment.

Gaetz left Congress upon receiving the nod from Trump, which all but killed a House Ethics Committee report set to be released on allegations Gaetz faces of sexual misconduct. However, intense pressure was leveled against the committee to release the findings anyway.

According to Fox News, the pressure campaign failed, and the House Ethics Committee refused to release the report, according to the panel's chairman. 

Chairman Michael Guest (R-MS) told reporters that an agreement to release the report, which many expected to be damning, was not reached.

What's going on?

After a two-hour, closed-door meeting of the panel in charge of the report, Chairman Michael Guest (R-MS), made it clear that no agreement to release the report had been reached.

"There was not an agreement by the committee to release the report," Guest told eager reporters waiting for the results.

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"There was not an agreement by the committee to release the report," said Ethics Chair Michael Guest.

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The situation apparently became heated after one of the Democrats on the panel slammed Guest for talking to reporters about the situation.

Fox News noted:

Things took a dramatic turn when Rep. Susan Wild, D-Pa., the top Democrat on the committee, unleashed on Guest for commenting to reporters earlier – despite it being exceedingly rare for a member of the normally insular panel to attack another.

"We just concluded a two-hour meeting of the ethics committee, and it was not my intention to make any comment. I walked out of this committee without making one and walked back to my office," Wild said.

She added, "We had agreed that we were not going to discuss what had transpired at the meeting. But it has come to my attention that the Chairman has since betrayed the process by disclosing our deliberations within moments after walking out of the committee, and he has implied that there was an agreement of the committee not to disclose the report."

Gaetz is out

In late-breaking news, the findings of the report, whether they're released or not, certainly won't matter at this point, as Gaetz withdrew his AG nomination on Thursday, according to USA Today.

Gaetz released a statement after the news of his exit broke, saying he felt he had become too much of a "distraction" for Trump's agenda.

Now, all eyes are on who Trump will choose to replace him.