Republican Inappropriate Behavior with Minors
Displaying 19 Scandals
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Jack TompkinsMayor [R-NJ]
7/11/25
According to an exclusive report by WHYY public media -
Michael TaitConservative Musician [R]
6/13/25Exposed and manually stimulated himself in front of a 13-year-old boy for upwards of an entire minute inside of a restaurant bathroom
According to an exclusive report by The Guardian -
7/27/22Inappropriately 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"
According to an exclusive report by The Denver Gazette -
Donald Trump47th U.S. President




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3/14/20Asked 17-year-old teenage model Barbara Pilling out for a dinner date while he was still married to Ivana and then exclaimed "you're not too old and not too young. That's just great!" when she told him her age
Firsthand account from Barbara Pilling in a report aired by The Guardian
12/09/19Paraded teenage girls aged fourteen to 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"
Firsthand account from then fourteen-year-old model Shawna Lee
12/09/19Walked in on teenage girls as young as fifteen-years-old changing in the dressing room of the 1991 Look of the Year contest which made at least one contestant "really uncomfortable", but many girls were afraid to complain because they didn't want to hurt their chances of winning the contest
According to an exclusive report by Cosmopolitan 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
Allegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets -
Jeff MillerFmr. City Council Member
8/15/18Cupped a 10-year-old girls buttocks while giving her a piggyback ride at his home on more than one occasion
According to news reports from credible media outlets -
Ralph ShorteyFmr. State Senator [R-OK]Trump 2016 Oklahoma campaign chair
11/20/17Illegally 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
According to charging documents by federal officials -
Donald Trump47th U.S. President




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10/18/16Said he was going to be dating a very young girl he had just randomly crossed paths with in ten years when she still would have been a teenager
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
Caught on video
10/12/16Barged 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
Corroborated by
5/14/16Asked 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."
Corroborated by Miss Universe Brook LeeSaid 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
Interview on the Howard Stern Show -
Kevin GarnFmr. State Representative36 Years in GOP
3/12/10Got 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
According to the woman who went to the media to tell her story and confirmed by Garn -
Jon MatthewsFmr. Radio Host
2/27/07Described in graphic detail felony sex acts he imagined subjecting a 3-year-old boy to in an online group chat which resulted in his expulsion from the sex offenders counseling program he was enrolled in for a previous offense involving an 11-year-old girl and also abused alcohol for several weeks in violation of his parole
According to charging documents filed by local officials -
Mark FoleyFmr. U.S. Representative35 Years in GOP
10/15/06Had 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
10/15/06Asked a 16-year-old male Congressional page to send him photographs of himself and inquired what he could buy him for his birthday over five emails that the page said "really freaked" him out and made him feel "sick"
According to voluminous reports filed by mainstream media outlets
10/04/06Routinely got drunk and sent sexualized emails and chat messages to underage male Congressional pages over a multiyear period
According to reporting by NBC News & other media outlets
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