Gaetz offered a different line of attack in a Monday opinion piece for the
In the piece, Gaetz broadly defends his past sexual lifestyle without delving into specifics—and notes that he previously defended former Democratic representative
Katie Hill when she was caught up in her own sex-based ethics scandal involving a staffer and her ex-husband (which ultimately resulted in her resignation).
“My lifestyle of yesteryear may be different from how I live now, but it was not and is not illegal,” Gaetz wrote. “I defended Rep. Katie Hill’s ‘throuple’ when her own Democratic colleagues wouldn’t. I just didn’t think it was anyone’s business. It comes as no surprise that my political opponents want to sensationalize and criminalize my prior sex life just as I am getting engaged to the best person I’ve ever known.”