That's not what happened here. It was not by chance. The Twitter thread posted above says

I think it’s safe to say that the two did become friends. How good a friends? That’s up for debate. But there was a relationship

Gaetz and Greenberg were in Miami together when they ran into Stone. We know this because Greenberg paid for a fancy hotel with taxpayer money.

There's also a selfie of Gaetz and Greenberg on the White House lawn in 2019.

There were already a lot of stories from back in 2020 and 2021 when this came out about how they met. Basically they were both elected in 2016 and became part of a Seminole County Republican clique.

Gaetz pushed Greenberg as a possible congressman in 2017 on a Florida radio show.

That's not what happened here. The Twitter thread posted

I think it’s safe to say that the two did become friends. How good a friends? That’s up for debate. But there was a relationship

Gaetz and Greenberg were in Miami together when they ran into Stone