The Ultimate Republican Scandals List

Clandestinely spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin as many as seven times after he left office, during which time he possessed highly classified national security documents he illegally took with him when he left the White House and realistically could have shared with Putin

Secretly gave Russian President Vladimir Putin extremely rare Covid-19 test machines for his personal use at a time they were desperately needed all throughout the United States possibly to curry favor with Putin or as a reward for his 2016 election interference that helped put him in office

Funneled over $70,000 worth of donations she raised for the statue of a Las Vegas police officer shot and killed in the line of duty into her personal accounts to spend on purchases including plastic surgery, rent and her daughter's wedding

Threatened to kill his primary opponent and eventual winner Anna Luna by calling up his "Russian-Ukrainian hit squad" to take her out

Deceitfully implied he was a married father of three children by sharing images and video footage of him posing and interacting with them around a dinner table on his campaign website and social media pages when in fact he is not married and has no children

Starred in multiple gay adult videos under a pseudonym not long before he pivoted to become a self-described "school choice evangelist" who lambasted LGBTQ rights for gay students

Used his local connections to get a taxpayer funded job in a local town village for his fiancée and a job with the local sanitation department for her son

Signed up for an account on a website that connects people looking to engage in extramarital affairs while also being married

Hired a woman he was having an affair with for a part-time job in his local district office that four former employees say they never saw her show up to and only stopped paying her after his fiancée found out about the relationship and temporarily broke up with him, but not before taxpayers had already paid her $7,400 for work she likely never did

Posted such extremely lewd and shocking comments on an adult website that CNN refused to publish the vast majority due to their extraordinarily "graphic nature"

Wrote multiple shockingly vulgar posts about participating in a variety of explicit sex acts with his wife's sister on an adult website which were so detailed that it begs the question of whether he was fantasizing or actually admitting to having an affair with her

Frequented at least two adult video stores where he watched pornographic videos in a private booth he rented and also purchased "hundreds" of bootlegged pornographic videos over a yearslong period

Punched and kicked his family's 14-year-old dog on Christmas in front of his wife and young daughter who was yelling for him to stop

Threw his then-wife to the floor, pushed her against a wall and restrained her with his body weight, chocked her, slapped her, forced her head between his legs and squeezed them together and routinely assaulted her over a fifteen-year period until she finally had enough and reported him to the police

Sensually kissed model and influencer Bettina Anderson at least three times on the mouth during what one witness described as "definitely" a date at a busy restaurant while also being engaged to MAGA firebrand Kimberly Guilfoyle

Had an extramarital affair with a woman that resulted in the destruction of his marriage after he refused his wife's overture to reconcile while also publicly portraying himself as “a Christian, conservative family man” who adheres to traditional Christian values

Allowed an unauthorized individual to make copies of voting machine hard drives and attend a voting machine software update intended only for credentialed election officials

Had multiple felony videos of young children between the ages of 8 to 13 doing sexual acts with older men saved on his cloud services account

Displayed a flag the far-right adopted as a symbol of support for Trump, used by insurrectionists on 1/6 and associated with the far-right Christian Nationalist movement known as the “Appeal to Heaven” or "Pine Tree" flag outside of his vacation home in New Jersey periodically over a three-month period while participating in numerous active cases stemming from the insurrection up to and including those involving Trump

Settled a lawsuit with electronic voting company Smartmatic for an undisclosed amount for spreading false 2020 election conspiracy theories that the company helped tilt the election which caused significant defamatory damage to their company brand

Displayed an upside-down American Flag, a signal of dire distress and something Trump supporters hijacked in the days after his 2020 loss, outside of his home days after the 1/6 insurrection and before Biden was sworn in to office while participating in numerous cases stemming from the insurrection up to and including those involving Trump at the same time and then blamed his wife when reporters questioned him about it

Pardoned an admittedly racist convicted murderer who made good on his online threats to confront and shoot protesters by killing an Air Force veteran peacefully participating in a protest one year into his 25-year sentence

Illegally claimed $168 million in business losses on his Chicago property by using dubious accounting tactics to write off his massive losses on the project on both his 2008 and then again on his 2010 tax returns

Diverted more than $25,000 in campaign contributions to an entity that he was the sole proprietor of and was located at his home address by falsely claiming the money was used to pay rent on office space for his political campaign

Asked wealthy oil executives to spend $1 billion to elect him in 2024 and promised to throw out environmental regulations designed to combat global climate change on "Day 1" as a reward if he were to return to the White House

Criticized the jury in his criminal hush-money case during an interview in violation of a gag order imposed by the judge and was fined $1,000 and warned that his next violation may result in jail time

Blatantly and repeatedly violated a gag order which prohibited him from verbally attacking witnesses, jurors and family members of court staff in his New York hush money trial and was ordered to remove all posts that ran afoul of the gag order and pay a $9,000 fine by the judge who held him in contempt

Killed her 14-month-old puppy for the crime of acting like a puppy on a hunting trip and later proudly wrote about the incident in her book as if shooting unruly puppies was a perfectly normal thing to do

Shot her family goat once and then picked up an additional shotgun shell from her truck to finish the job since her first shot didn't kill the animal

Allegedly sexually assaulted his preteen daughter who along with her siblings was granted an order of protection against him while authorities investigated the allegation further while still being married to his estranged wife

Armed himself with a gun while experiencing what his aunt told police was a psychotic episode and got in a physical altercation with his minor children who wound up stabbing him twice to protect themselves and disarm him and was found to be in possession of thirty firearms and psychedelic mushrooms when police arrived

Declined to recuse himself from a Supreme Court case determining whether Donald Trump is immune from criminal charges stemming from his attempt to overturn the 2020 election despite the fact that his wife Ginni was intimately involved in the scheme to prevent Biden from becoming President

Promised to pardon his personal aide and "body man" Walt Nauta if he was convicted of lying to the FBI about his knowledge of Trump's illegal retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago if he becomes President again

Kidnapped and murdered her ex-daughter-in-law and another woman with the help of three other members of an anti-government group over a custody dispute involving her grandchildren

Stole over $132,000 from multiple political accounts to pay for vacations with his family, housing costs and personal credit card statements by siphoning money from a loosely regulated political account that prosecutors alleged he used as his own "unregulated slush fund" into his own pocket

Left his loaded semiautomatic 9mm handgun behind in a public restroom of the state capitol which sat unattended for nearly 30 minutes before a janitor found it and alerted state troopers

Lied under oath in a deposition and also at trial about his role in falsely asserting that Trump's private apartment in Trump Tower was nearly three times larger than it actually was on official tax forms

Drank so much alcohol at a political dinner and gala that servers cut her off and told her she couldn't have any more because she was noticeably drunk

Illegally voted in nine elections between 2008 and 2011 while he was on probation for a prior felony conviction and ineligible to vote in Georgia while also having hypocritically spread baseless claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election and was later fined $5,000 and given a public reprimand by the judge overseeing his case

Fondled Herschel Walker campaign staffer Carlton Huffman in the crotch without his consent and unsuccessfully tried to convince him to go back to his room while also being married and then paid Huffman $480,000 through an insurance policy to settle his sexual harassment lawsuit out of court

Defamed AZ County Recorder Stephen Richer (R) by baselessly accusing him of adding over 300,000 fraudulent ballots to Maricopa County's vote count in order to steal the election from her and then later admitted in court that she had no defense against his lawsuit and forfeited her right to a trial

Sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl who went to his church and babysat his own children inside his church, personal office, car and also at her home over three-year period when he was in his mid-20's where she said he would often move her hand down to his groin to have her "touch him sexually" and he would "touch [her] in return" and also often kissed her "like a man kisses a woman" while also being married with young children at home

Swerved into oncoming traffic while driving drunk and hit another car, fled the scene and was later found asleep in his car by police who reported he had noticeable signs of impairment including a strong odor of alcohol on his breath, slurred speech and bloodshot eyes and then failed field sobriety tests and had a BAC three times the legal limit of 0.25

Ordered his personal aide and "body man" Walt Nauta and Mar-a-lago manager Brian Butler to transfer up to 15 boxes of likely classified information Trump illegally had in his possession to his residence in New Jersey at the very time representatives from the DOJ were meeting with his lawyers to get back the documents he illegally retained

Digitally penetrated his 13-year-old daughter after drugging her with a sedative and removing all her clothes while she was unconscious

Sexually abused a 15-year-old minor

Possessed “hundreds of thousands" felony images depicting child pornography on his electronic devices

Sexually tortured another man with an inanimate object and then murdered him with a hammer

Physically struck a victim and had to complete a six-week anger management course in order to have his charges dropped

Punched and strangled his victim so severely it caused multiple brain bleeds which resulted in their eventual death several days later after medical personnel were unable to save their life

Asked a young woman who was getting paid by his best friend Joel Greenberg to have sex with other men to join him for a weekend trip to the Florida Keys where he said there would be "2 guys, 4 girls" and insinuated sex would be involved

Had sex with a 21-year-old who was under the influence of "all kinds of controlled substances" at a drug-fueled party she was paid to attend

Stole over $59k from a local Republican committee and spent it on personal expenses including mortgage payments, wine trips, luxury candies and everyday expenses like groceries

Was found liable to pay writer E. Jean Carroll an additional $83 million -- $65 million in punitive damages and 18.3 million in reputational and emotional damages -- after he continued to repeatedly defame her long after a previous jury awarded her $5 million in defamation damages

Defecated on a WWE employee he coerced into a nonconsensual sexual relationship while also being married and then commanded her to give oral sex to his friend while feces were running down her head

Teamed up with a male WWE employee to physically restrain and sexually assault a female WWE employee after they shoved her into a locked room at company headquarters and mocked her pleas for them to stop by taunting that "No means yes" while also being married

Showed illicit photos and videos of a WWE employee he had a nonconsensual sexual relationship with to multiple people without her knowledge or consent

Was accused of deceptively editing a leaked recording of a private conversation where AZ Republican Party Chair Jeff DeWitt appeared to offer her a bribe to drop out of the 2024 U.S. Senate race but which he says was "selectively edited" by Lake in order to get him fired from party leadership

Settled 14 separate lawsuits brought by former employees who alleged he illegally withheld their overtime pay for an undisclosed amount

Stole a total of $728.61 worth of items from a local Target during seven visits over a 26-day period by not scanning some of the more expensive items in her cart at the self-checkout line

Choked a 20-year-old woman during sex without her consent so forcefully that the whites of her eyes turned red and she passed out and continued having sex with her while she was unconscious and then threatened to kill her when she came to

Remained closely tied to his namesake company which ended up raking in at least $7.8 million from 20 different foreign governments throughout his Presidency by having his sons run it instead of placing it in the hands of a neutral arbiter which violated decades of norms and traditions that were in place to prevent a President from profiting off the office

Violently banged on a car window and prevented it from leaving a local bar and then pulled her victim out of their car and proceeded to "hit and assault" them with the help of her mother and third offender

Lied to potential investors about receiving millions of dollars in secret payments from a company to promote their new video phone on his TV show by promising them his endorsement of the product was "not for any money"

Spewed homophobic and racist taunts against police officers who pulled him over for swerving in and out of his lane and also failed a field sobriety test, refused to take a breathalyzer and threatened the officers by saying that he would "regret" arresting him because he knew the state AG and claimed he could falsely tell him that he was mistreated by the officers

Stripped down to his underwear and grinded against another male without his consent at a fundraising event in Florida while also being married

Had group sex with a woman he and his wife Bridget Ziegler were longtime friends with after having hypocritically spent years lambasting LGBTQ rights and touting the importance of adhering to "traditional family values" in public and private life

Secretly sold up to $50,000 of Boeing shares mere days before a House committee he was on released a highly critical report about the company and then failed to disclose the sale for more than two months and only reported it after he won reelection in a race he won by a mere 333 votes

Secretly recorded him and his wife Bridget Ziegler having group sex with a woman they had a sexual relationship with

Was sued for "violently" kissing and sexually assaulting a fellow male Fox News producer on two separate occasions even after his advances were rebuffed and for intimidating his victim in to keeping quiet by warning him not to report what happened to Fox's human resources department

Charged fellow US Rep. Mas Miller's credit card for political donations that "exceeded FEC limits" without his knowledge or consent

Participated in at least one three-way sexual encounter with her husband and a mutual female friend while also hypocritically being an ardent opponent of gay rights who has spent years touting the importance of "traditional family values"

Covered up the sexual coercion of a female staff member at Trump Bedminster by manipulating her into signing an unfavorable NDA for a "paltry sum" with huge financial penalties if she violated the terms

Raped a woman he and his wife Bridget Ziegler previously had group sex with and have known for 20 years after she tried to cancel their planned tryst because Bridget could no longer participate

Illegally delayed certifying her county's 2022 midterm election results for weeks by citing unfounded and baseless allegations of fraud and only allowed the certification to go through after a judge ordered her to

Delayed certifying the results of his county's 2022 midterm election by citing baseless allegations of supposed voter fraud

Grabbed and struck a woman in her forehead with a 9mm pistol leaving blood running down her face, an inch-wide cut on her face and a handprint bruise where he grabbed her on her forearm

Pardoned a convicted drug smuggler who had connections with his son-in-law Jared Kushner's family after only serving two and a half years of his ten-year sentence and who was later arrested for assaulting his wife and father-in-law

Preyed on female subordinates at Newsmax in the office and at social gatherings where he was often seen getting inappropriately "close and physical" with them of which several complaints were filed with human resources but mostly ignored due to their toxic culture

Showed pictures of a female subordinate’s cleavage to other staff in his office without her knowledge or consent

Bought luxury clothing, erotic adult content online, luxury skin care products, meals and paid off personal debts with more than $50,000 in campaign contributions he told donors would be used to support his bid for Congress

Was accused of intentionally elbowing fellow GOP Rep. Tim Burchett in his kidneys and then running away when he turned around to see who hit him

Groomed and manipulated a 19-year-old girl who was 23 years younger than him into having a secret yearslong sexual relationship with him that she claimed included doing everything except sexual intercourse by first gaining her trust as her pastor where he would take her and her brother on seemingly innocuous outings to restaurants, bookstores and the park which eventually led to the point where she claimed he crossed the line and "kept crossing it more severely sexually” while also being married

Traveled to the Czech Republic for the purpose of paying to have sex with minors under the age of 18 multiple times over a five-year period

Downloaded felony images depicting children being sexually abused and tried to conceal his identity by using fake online personas

Was caught with unprescribed pain killers, smokable marijuana and marijuana butter in his patrol car after the FBI requested that the Arkansas state police pull him over because they had just witnessed him exit a suspected drug house under their surveillance

Lied to Georgia state senators about supposed voter fraud in the 2020 election and "intentionally aided and abetted" Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani after who also pushed election falsehoods to the state legislators

Crashed his car after which arriving officers observed signs of impairment including a strong odor of alcohol on his breath, slurred speech, dilated pupils, unsteadiness on his feet, responded with "lawyer" each of the many times he was asked to take a field sobriety test and resisted arrest by trying to pull away from officers handcuffing him

Devised and executed a plan to overturn the 2020 Presidential election results in Georgia in which he conspired with 16 Republicans to falsely certify Trump won the state and declare themselves the “duly elected and qualified” electors

Illegally obtained over $45,000 in Small Business Covid-Relief Funds out of $150,000 he applied for by claiming that dormant companies he owned with no employees actually had 6 employees and revenue of $800k and then lied to federal agents when they questioned him about it

Paid two coconspirators to illegally access voting machines in Coffee County, GA and copy voter data from the 2020 election presumably to search for anything that could back up their unhinged election conspiracy theories

Shot his wife in her back and arm causing serious but not life-threatening injuries and then killed himself while sitting in their car outside a fast-food restaurant in a botched murder-suicide attempt

Fraudulently claimed a 5-by-5-foot closet-sized space he rented for $5 a month was his official residence in order to run for office in a district he didn't actually live in

Shared top-secret and highly sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines including the number of nuclear warheads they can carry and how close they can get to Russian submarines without being detected with Australian billionaire and Mar-a-Lago member Anthony Pratt who went on to share what Trump told him with at least 45 other people including foreign officials, his employees and journalists over a year after he left the Presidency

Murdered his fiancée, dismembered her body and stuffed her in a large plastic bag which he discarded near a bridge

Funneled at least $107,885 worth of campaign contributions into his personal accounts which he used to fund trips to Las Vegas, Napa Valley and other locations by creating a sham charity called the “United Latino Foundation” and enlisting his mother and close friend to help him transfer the money

Gave a highly classified binder of FBI documents relating to the 2016 Trump-Russia investigation to two sympathetic right-wing media personalities for propaganda purposes

Defrauded banks in New York by vastly overinflating the value of his assets by as much as $3.6 billion dollars in order to obtain more favorable loan terms in a scheme a judge overseeing his case described as "persistent and repeated fraud" and was ordered to pay a $355 million fine and prohibited from conducting business in New York state for three years

Cheated on and left his wife of 34 years for a DC lobbyist after having spent years touting "traditional family values" as a pillar of his political identity

Stole $9,657 in proceeds from an online auction of old government-owned vehicles