Former Republican Rep. Charlie Dent is speculating that President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general may “have to be withdrawn.”

“Trump announced he would be nominating Gaetz to head the Department of Justice on Wednesday. The Florida lawmaker resigned from office following the announcement, just two days before the House Ethics Committee was to vote on releasing a reportedly ‘highly damaging’ probe into him, Punchbowl News reported, citing sources familiar with the investigation,” Newsweek reported.

“Gaetz had been under investigation over allegations that he was part of a scheme that led to the sex trafficking of a 17-year-old girl. The committee said in June it was investigating whether Gaetz engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct. Gaetz has denied all wrongdoing,” Newsweek reported.CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Dent, a well-known Trump critic, if he believed that Trump’s appointment of Gaetz might be “too far” for Republican senators during an appearance on CNN.

“Oh goodness, yes,” Dent replied. “This is a gobsmackingly bad nomination. I’d be less surprised, in the words of Chevy Chase, if my face was stapled to the floor. This is really a bad nomination.”