The real reason Garland did not charge Gaetz.

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Both the DOJ investigation and the Ethics Committee investigation came to the same conclusion - that there was not enough evidence of trafficking to gain a conviction. In fact the DOJ actually empaneled a grand jury who apparently failed to indict. Nothing nefarious on the part of DOJ - as big of a scumbag as Gaetz is, there just wasn't convincing evidence that his actions constituted sex trafficking.

Now as for his drug offenses, the report didn't really go into details with specifics of what he did. It's possible that he could have been charged with drug offenses but without more specifics, it's hard to tell definitively. Hopefully we will get more details.

The biggest thing that came out of the report (beyond confirming the statutory rape, unfortunately too late to prosecute), was the dozens (at least) of ethics violations he committed. It's pretty clear that many Republicans in Congress knew of at least some of these a long time ago, yet the covered up for him. He wasn't even reprimanded. The volume and severity of ethics violations he committed should have resulted in expulsion from Congress, and it should have happened a long time ago.