“The allegations against me are as searing as they are false," Gaetz told Axios in a phone interview. "I believe that there are people at the Department of Justice who are trying to criminalize my sexual conduct, you know when I was a single guy."
Gaetz, who got engaged in December, acknowledged that he “definitely, in my single days, provided for women I've dated,” adding that he was “absolutely” sure none of the women he dated were underage.
“You know, I've paid for flights, for hotel rooms. I’ve been, you know, generous as a partner,” he continued. “I think someone is trying to make that look criminal when it is not."