Gaetz

"I do think that some of the blue-checkmark brigade backlash on Twitter that you all in the media so predictably overreact to is non-organic," he says, using the Trumpworld shorthand for "verified" Twitter users. (Gaetz is a verified Twitter user.)

The committee’s investigation into Gaetz began in 2021 but was put on hold while a separate, yearslong federal sex-trafficking investigation into the former congressman was underway.