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
Can you point me to the source of the "and then had sex with her" claim?
New York times
That's not a source.
This is basically the NYT sourcing the Three Stooges. They can print anything and it matters little whether any of it is true because it's all hearsay pinned on "three anonymous people."
Given the NYT's track record of lies on anonymous sourcing, why would anyone be inclined to believe them?
If I make the statement, "According to a person familiar with the matter at hand, the DOJ is investigating whether the NYT editors kidnapped and raped a black girl in '93." is it a claim to be believed? Why or why not?
It's worse than that. The way it's phrased, it could be one anonymous source briefing three people.