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:
He paid underage girl to cross state lines and then had sex with her. So it counts as sex trafficing
Mr. Ling really didn't do the needful with his lessons.