The billboard is up and Gaetz is the target. It is located in Crestview, a city in northeast Florida, and was paid for by Mad Dog PAC.
It features a black and white photo of the embattled congressman with the striking claim: 'Matt Gaetz wants to "date" your child.'
Gaetz has pushed back forcefully against the allegations he faces, penning a column in the Washington Examiner Monday which said: 'The swamp is out to drown me with false charges, but I'm not giving up.'
Gaetz, a third-term congressman from Florida, has not been charged with a crime, and he has vehemently denied the various accusations against him, among them that he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl, as a 'lie.'
But the unsettling panoply of allegations has put Gaetz's political future in doubt just as he was being seen as an increasingly potent force in the Republican Party.
In the latest twist, The New York Times - which last week broke the story that the DoJ was investigating Gaetz - reported Wednesday that the congressman had sought a blanket pardon from the White House in the waning weeks of Trump's presidency.
Trump had grown fond of Gaetz, a lawmaker who offered fierce loyalty to the president throughout his four-year term. But a Gaetz pardon never came.
With the scandal mushrooming, Trump himself weighed in on Wednesday.
'Congressman Matt Gaetz has never asked me for a pardon,' the 45th president said. 'It must also be remembered that he has totally denied the accusations against him.'
The top Republican in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, last week acknowledged the allegations were 'serious' and could lead to severe repercussions, but said he wanted to see more of the facts.
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