A spokesman for Mr. Gaetz said he has never paid for sex, nor had sex with an underage girl. “What began with blaring headlines about ‘sex trafficking’ has now turned into a general fishing exercise about vacations and consensual relationships with adults,” the spokesman told CBS News. “Yesterday, we even learned of some nonsense ‘pardon’ story that turned out to be false and today it’s just more euphemism.” CBS News said investigators are probing whether Mr. Gaetz was accepting escorts in exchange for political access or legislative favors. Mr. Gaetz had introduced the Medical Cannabis Research Act in April 2018 and again in January 2019, but it never came to a vote.