Matt Gaetz's ex-staffers are scrubbing his name from LinkedIn pages

Free subscriber-exclusive audiobook!“No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention”Get it now on Libro.fm using the button below.The veteran political operative Dan McFaul served a two-month stint as Rep. Matt Gaetz's chief of staff when the Republican congressman from Florida arrived on Capitol Hill.But you wouldn't know it from looking at McFaul's social-media accounts or his biography page for the law firm Ballard Partners. Gaetz's name is absent from McFaul's LinkedIn page, too, where he describes his duties during that time working as a chief of staff for an unnamed "congressman."By contrast, McFaul's LinkedIn account does name two of his other former bosses by name: President Donald Trump and former Rep. Jeff Miller of Florida, whose seat Gaetz won after Miller retired. McFaul is one of many high-ranking Gaetz staffers who aren't widely broadcasting their experience working for the embattled Florida congressman who's at the center of a federal sex-trafficking investigation and a congressional ethics probe.At least 25 of Gaetz's former congressional staffers don't mention the Republican congressman by name on their LinkedIn pages, according to an Insider analysis. Harry Reid and Ted Kennedy.When asked for comment about the 25 former staffers who don't mention Gaetz on their professional profiles, Gaetz's congressional office directed the inquiry to Harlan Hill, the president of the Logan Circle Group public-relations firm who works as Gaetz's spokesman."The only way the media would know this is if they are trawling through former Capitol staffers' social media pages," Hill told Insider in an email."The only reason those staffers want to keep certain information away from their social media pages is because the stalkers in the corporate media keep harassing them in a continued, partisan effort to undermine Rep. Gaetz," Hill added.