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Few in GOP rush to defend Gaetz amid sex trafficking probe

by Michael BalsamoAlan Fram
| April 2, 2021 1:30 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The political peril for conservative Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz deepened Friday as the often outlandish, Trump-styled provocateur appeared politically isolated amid a federal sex-trafficking investigation.

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