Conservatives Who Paid to Resolve Lawsuits

Baselessly accused a Trump supporter on the Capitol grounds during 1/6 of being a covert government agent who was "the central figure" in inciting the insurrection which led to him receiving numerous death threats and being forced to sell his home and business and relocate to a secluded place to protect himself and his wife

Agreed to pay former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg $12 million to settle a lawsuit she filed against them which accused the network of pressuring her to commit perjury in a legal deposition and operating a hostile and discriminatory work environment

Copiloted a small airplane that crashed into a residential home after losing power midair due to "carelessly and negligently flying" killing a second pilot and pinning a teenage girl against a wall

Settled a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million for spreading false 2020 election conspiracy theories about their voting machines which caused significant defamatory damage to their company brand

Retaliated against four staffers who reported his alleged corruption to the FBI by maligning them as "rogue employees" and fired or forced them out through other means then spent $3.3 million in taxpayer dollars to settle a wrongful termination lawsuit that also forced him to apologize for disparaging them

Was found liable for $120k for violating wiretapping laws after illegally recording multiple conversations inside a Democratic political consulting group which they later "heavily edited" to deceitfully insinuate the group was involved in unscrupulous activities

Engaged in a yearlong extramarital affair with a woman who was formerly married to an ISIS terrorist and paid her $5,000 to keep quiet about it

Had an affair with a WWE employee 35 years younger than him, then doubled her salary to $200k and later paid her $3 million to keep it secret

Settled a workplace discrimination lawsuit for an undisclosed amount with a woman who was skipped over for a promotion as a hiring manager for a less experienced and qualified man who then promptly used his newly gotten authority to fire her

Routinely accosted Fox News producer Andrea Mackris with graphic sexual conversations he initiated during all hours of the night and during work functions, unsuccessfully solicited her and a friend of hers to have group sex, and tried to persuade her to have phone sex with him all after totally ignoring her repeated demands that he stop -- all while he was married -- of which he eventually paid her $9 million to resolve a sexual harassment lawsuit she brought against him

Sexually harassed an assistant of hers so incessantly that she eventually filed a 42-page complaint against Fox News which resulted in them paying her a secret multimillion-dollar settlement

Was found liable to pay writer E. Jean Carroll $5 million in damages for defamation and battery for "sexual abuse" at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York City in 1996

Sexually assaulted his 21-year-old legislative staffer more than 50 times over a three-year period by subjecting her to what she testified as "nearly daily touching" in places including his office, the elevator, hallway, and elsewhere in addition to the multiple times he massaged between her legs while seated next to her at large political functions then secretly settled a lawsuit she filed against him in order to prevent her allegations from becoming public while being married the entire time

Secretly paid Playboy model Shera Bechard $1.6 million to keep their extramarital affair and details of his alleged abuse and manipulation secret with the help of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen

Coerced a manicurist who worked at one of his hotels to remove her clothing and have sex with him while also being married then secretly paid her $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit she filed against him

Propositioned an aide who was decades younger than him to become romantically involved and then made her life in the office so miserable after she rebuffed his advances that she quit and sued him for sexual harassment, which resulted in him secretly using taxpayer funds to settle while also being married

Sexually harassed a female producer then secretly worked with Fox News to privately settle her complaint with a deal that allowed her to extend her stay in the U.S. since she wasn't an American citizen

Settled a sexual harassment lawsuit with a confidentiality agreement for $84,000 using a secret taxpayer funded account which kept it from the public for years

Were ordered to pay $2.2 million to a sexual harassment victim who was fired a mere seven hours after she filed a memo that accused the group of turning a blind eye to a "boys club" culture in the statehouse

Unsuccessfully pressured Fox News host Juliet Huddy to have sex with him multiple times -- once he insisted she come up to return something to his hotel room and answered the door only wearing his boxer shorts -- then had Fox News secretly pay her $1.6 million to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit she filed against him and the company

Secretly paid $44,500 in taxpayer money to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by his former assistant that he fired after she complained about his behavior

Solicited anchor Gretchen Carlson for sexual favors and then punished her professionally after she refused his advances in a manner so egregious Fox News settled a lawsuit she filed for $20 million dollars

Paid $100k to settle a lawsuit brought by an employee of an NGO helping lower income families who he smeared as supporting criminal behavior through a deceptively edited secret recording leaving out the key fact he called the police on them immediately after

Was sued for illegally firing without cause a staffer who had an extramarital affair with the MN Senate GOP Leader and later agreed to pay $30,000 to settle the wrongful termination lawsuit he brought against the State Senate

Paid a five-figure settlement to CNN correspondent Abbie Boudreau over a disgusting failed attempt to smear her reputation by recording her aboard a boat filled with inappropriate sexualized items including sex toys

Got naked with a 15-year-old girl in a hot tub when he was in his late twenties and later paid her $150,000 to keep quiet when he ran for US Congress