Republican Inappropriate Behavior with Minors

Displaying 15 Scandals
Sorted by When News Broke
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Pastor Ted HaggardInappropriately touched an underage boy in "very predatorial and very strange" ways including grabbing his pectoral muscles, creepily rubbing his back and hugging him in a way that made the boy slide "up his hip or the side of his thigh or his bum"
27 Jul 2022
According to an exclusive report by The Denver Gazette
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Paraded teenage girls -- the majority who were only fifteen and sixteen-years-old -- down a yacht's staircase and had them individually dance for him while he lapped everything up in a way one former model later described as "objectifying" and "gross"
09 Dec 2019
According to a book excerpt from "All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator" exclusively published by Cosmopolitan magazine -
Walked in on teenage girls as young as fourteen-years-old changing in the dressing room of the 1992 Look of the Year contest in a way one contestant described as him taking a "slow stroll" as he stopped and gawked at each teenager individually
09 Dec 2019
According to a book excerpt from "All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator" exclusively published by Cosmopolitan magazine
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Barged in on teenage girls -- some as young as fifteen-years-old -- changing in the dressing room of the 1991 Look of the Year contest in a way one contestant described as leaving her feeling "really uncomfortable" because there was "no need for him to be back there," but contestants were afraid to complain because they didn't want to hurt their chances of winning the contest
09 Dec 2019
According to a book excerpt from "All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator" exclusively published by Cosmopolitan magazine
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Exclaimed "you're not too old and not too young. That's just great!" when 17-year-old model Barbara Pilling told him her age
09 Jul 2018
According to a special report aired by the BBC
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State Sen. Ralph Shortey [R-OK]Illegally consumed marijuana with a teenage boy he met on Craigslist in a hotel room after he cosponsored a bill that would have made it so people who get caught with even small amounts of marijuana would be charged with a felony instead of a misdemeanor
20 Nov 2017
According to charging documents by federal officials
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Told two 14-year-old girls singing Christmas carols with their youth choir that he'll be dating them in a "couple of years" after he asked them how old they were
18 Oct 2016
According to a report by the Chicago Tribune
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Boasted “I am going to be dating her in 10 years. Can you believe it?” after walking past a very young girl he had just randomly crossed paths with
18 Oct 2016
According to a resurfaced video of the interaction reported by multiple major outlets
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Barged in on teenage girls as young as fifteen-years-old changing in the dressing room of the 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant and told the girls "don't worry, ladies, I've seen it all before" as the girls scrambled to cover themselves
12 Oct 2016
According to four contestants of the pageant and reported on by BuzzFeed News
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Asked Miss Universe Brook Lee "Don’t you think my daughter’s hot? She’s hot, right?" as they watched a then 16-year-old Ivanka helping on stage during the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant in an incident she described thinking at the time as "That’s just weird. She was 16. That’s creepy."
14 May 2016
According to multiple collaborated witnesses in an investigative report by The New York Times -
Said he "wasn't interested" in "beautiful" 12-year-old Paris Hilton which is weird and creepy that a grown adult feels the need to qualify a statement like that
02 Aug 2015
According to reporting of the interview by The Daily Beast
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State Rep. Kevin Garn [R-UT]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
12 Mar 2010
According to the woman who went to the media to tell her story and confirmed by Garn
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Rep. Mark Foley [R-FL]Asked a 16-year-old male Congressional page to send him photographs of himself and inquired what he could buy him for his birthday over a series of five emails that the page said "really freaked" him out and made him feel "sick"
15 Oct 2006
According to voluminous reports filed by mainstream media outlets
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Rep. Mark Foley [R-FL]Had sexual relations with two former male pages and sent dozens of inappropriate and sexually suggestive emails and instant messages to underage male pages over a yearslong period while also having voted in favor of numerous pieces of anti-gay legislation throughout his time in Congress
15 Oct 2006
According to voluminous reports filed by mainstream media outlets
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Rep. Mark Foley [R-FL]Routinely got drunk and sent sexualized emails and chat messages to underage male Congressional pages over a multiyear period
04 Oct 2006
According to reporting by NBC News & other media outlets