Investigators were also looking into whether Gaetz and one of his associates used the internet to search for women they could pay for sex, the sources said.
At the time of the reporting, a Gaetz spokesperson said: “Rep. Gaetz has never paid for sex, nor has he had sex with an underage girl. What began with blaring headlines about ‘sex trafficking’ has now turned into a general fishing exercise about vacations and consensual relationships with adults.”
Gaetz was also investigated over allegations he showed fellow members nude photos of women on his phone while on the House floor.
Gaetz is a lawyer, as Trump noted in his announcement, and he is in good standing with the Florida Bar — not that he ever practiced law for very long before he was elected to the Florida House in 2010. The bar briefly labeled him as “delinquent” in 2021 for failing to pay a $265 fee, but it reinstated him, and he remains licensed to practice law in Florida.
A former Trump attorney from his first term also testified during the House Jan. 6 hearings that Gaetz wanted a blanket pardon from the then-president.
Gaetz “wanted a pardon, as I recall, from the beginning of time up until that day, for anything,” Eric Herschmann, an attorney in the Trump White House, told the committee.
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