Fake Post Claims Gaetz Said He 'Almost Never' Dated Teens After AG Nomination

In November 2024, the day after President-elect Donald Trump nominated former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz to oversee the Department of Justice as U.S. attorney general, an account on X posted an apparent screen capture of a post attributed to Gaetz. Under one interpretation, that post seemed to say he'd "almost never" broken a rule according to which it was appropriate for a man to date a person no younger than half his age, minus seven years (in his case, teenagers)