Gaetz came on Tucker Carlson and attempted to get in front of the allegations, and claimed that a specific DOJ employee had been attempting to extort him. And implied that the DOJ and FBI may have leaked the investigation to the NYT in order to bury the investigation.
Relatively quickly, team Blue reacted by trying to embarrass him in regards to the interview:
Oops forgot, let me see if I can find an obscure Twitter post with a timestamp that mention the date but says something like 17 year old at the gates. Then we can take the gates change it to Gaetz and bam proof!
Does that obscure Twitter post cite unnamed sources familiar with the thinking of anonymous individuals related to the functions of the investigation?
Otherwise I don't believe it.
Touché