The Ultimate Republican Scandals List

Displaying 1 - 50 of 1055 Scandals
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  • 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
    11 May 2024
    According to an exclusive joint report by The New York Times and Pro Publica
  • Rep. Troy Nehls
    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
    10 May 2024
    According to a report released by the nonpartisan House Ethics Committee
  • 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
    09 May 2024
    According to news reports from credible media outlets
  • 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
    30 Apr 2024
    Allegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
  • Zack Scrivner [County Supervisor]
    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
    25 Apr 2024
    Allegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
  • Zack Scrivner [County Supervisor]
    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
    25 Apr 2024
    Allegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
  • Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas [R]
    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
    25 Apr 2024
    According to news reports from credible media outlets
  • 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
    22 Apr 2024
    Firsthand account from a confidential witness who spoke with the FBI about their interactions with Trump
  • State Rep. Don Wilson [R-CO]
    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
    12 Apr 2024
    According to a report by USA Today
  • CFO Allen Weisselberg [R-NY]
    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
    10 Apr 2024
    According to charging documents filed by state officials
  • Rep. Lauren Boebert [R-CO]
    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
    05 Apr 2024
    According to news reports from credible media outlets
  • Georgia GOP VP Brian Pritchard
    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
    28 Mar 2024
    According to an investigative report by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  • ACU Chair Matt Schlapp
    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
    27 Mar 2024
    According to victim testimony in a report from The Daily Beast
  • Kari Lake [2022 GOP AZ Gov. Nominee]
    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
    26 Mar 2024
    Lake asked the court to move directly to the damages phase of the trial which will determine how much Richer is owed for her defamation
  • Alex Zdan [2023 NJ GOP Sen. Candidate]
    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
    14 Mar 2024
    According to charging documents filed by local police
  • 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
    12 Mar 2024
    Former Mas-a-Lago manager Brian Butler
  • GOP County Chair Bo Dresner [R-TX]
    Sexually abused a 15-year-old minor
    11 Mar 2024
    According to charging documents filed by local police
  • GOP County Chair Bo Dresner [R-TX]
    Possessed “hundreds of thousands" felony images depicting child pornography on his electronic devices
    11 Mar 2024
    According to charging documents filed by local police
  • GOP County Chair Bo Dresner [R-TX]
    Digitally penetrated his 13-year-old daughter after drugging her with a sedative and removing all her clothes while she was unconscious
    11 Mar 2024
    According to charging documents filed by local police
  • Campaign Manager Kyle Lewter [R-AL]
    Sexually tortured another man with an inanimate object and then murdered him with a hammer
    10 Mar 2024
    Allegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
  • Daniel Rodimer [2021 TX GOP Rep. Candidate]
    Physically struck a victim and had to complete a six-week anger management course in order to have his charges dropped
    08 Mar 2024
    According to charging documents filed by local police
  • Daniel Rodimer [2021 TX GOP Rep. Candidate]
    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
    07 Mar 2024
    According to charging documents filed by local police
  • Matt Gaetz
    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
    14 Feb 2024
    According to an exclusive report by ABC News
  • Matt Gaetz
    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
    14 Feb 2024
    According to an exclusive report by The Daily Beast
  • County Commissioner John Novello [R-NY]
    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
    14 Feb 2024
    According to charging documents filed by local police
  • 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
    26 Jan 2024
    According to news reports from credible media outlets
  • Vince McMahon [Conservative Businessman]
    Showed illicit photos and videos of a WWE employee he had a nonconsensual sexual relationship with to multiple people without her knowledge or consent
    25 Jan 2024
    According to a lawsuit filed by the alleged victim
  • Vince McMahon [Conservative Businessman]
    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
    25 Jan 2024
    According to a lawsuit filed by the alleged victim
  • Vince McMahon [Conservative Businessman]
    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
    25 Jan 2024
    According to a lawsuit filed by the alleged victim
  • Kari Lake [2022 GOP AZ Gov. Nominee]
    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
    24 Jan 2024
    According to news reports from credible media outlets
  • Bernie Moreno [2024 OH GOP Sen. Candidate]
    Settled 14 separate lawsuits brought by former employees who alleged he illegally withheld their overtime pay for an undisclosed amount
    17 Jan 2024
    According to news reports from credible media outlets
  • School Board Member Keri Blair [R-TN]
    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
    12 Jan 2024
    According to charging documents filed by local police
  • Influencer Andrew Tate
    Choked a 20-year-old woman he was initially having consensual sex with without her consent so forcefully that the whites of her eyes turned red and she passed out and then threatened to kill her and said he "owned her" when she came to
    06 Jan 2024
    According to an exclusive interview the alleged victim conducted with The Sun
  • 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
    04 Jan 2024
    According to an exclusive report by The New York Times
  • South Carolina GOP Director Braylee Estep
    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
    03 Jan 2024
    According to charging documents filed by local police
  • 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"
    01 Jan 2024
    According to a civil lawsuit filed by former investors of the company
  • State Rep. Nico Rios [R-ND]
    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
    23 Dec 2023
    According to charging documents filed by local police
  • ACU Chair Matt Schlapp
    Stripped down to his underwear and grinded against another male without his consent at a fundraising event in Florida while also being married
    16 Dec 2023
    Allegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
  • Florida GOP Chair Christian Ziegler
    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
    13 Dec 2023
    According to news reports from credible media outlets
  • Rep. Mike Garcia [R-CA]
    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 rrace he won by a mere 333 votes
    13 Dec 2023
    Allegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
  • Florida GOP Chair Christian Ziegler
    Secretly recorded him and his wife Bridget Ziegler having group sex with a woman they had a sexual relationship with
    09 Dec 2023
    Allegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
  • Justin Wells [Fox News Producer]
    Was sued for "violently" forcibly 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
    05 Dec 2023
    According to a lawsuit filed by alleged victim Andrew Delancey
  • Charged fellow US Rep. Mas Miller's credit card for political donations that "exceeded FEC limits" without his knowledge or consent
    01 Dec 2023
    According to news reports from credible media outlets
  • Moms for Liberty Founder Bridget Ziegler
    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"
    30 Nov 2023
    According to news reports from credible media outlets
  • Alina Habba
    Manipulated a vulnerable female staff member at Trump Bedminster in to signing a nondisclosure agreement that paid what her lawyers claim was a "paltry sum" in exchange for her forced silence about allegations she made against a supervisor who allegedly coerced her in to having sex, with huge financial penalties if she violated the agreement
    30 Nov 2023
    According to a civil lawsuit filed by the alleged victim
  • Florida GOP Chair Christian Ziegler
    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
    30 Nov 2023
    According to a police complaint filed by the alleged victim
  • County Commissioner Peggy Judd [R-AZ]
    Intentionally 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
    29 Nov 2023
    According to charging documents filed by state officials
  • County Commissioner Tom Crosby [R-AZ]
    Intentionally and "knowingly interfered" with state officials attempting to certify 2022 midterm election results by delaying the certification of his county's results for weeks by citing unfounded and baseless allegations of fraud
    29 Nov 2023
    According to charging documents filed by state officials
  • Students for Trump Founder Ryan Fournier
    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
    29 Nov 2023
    Allegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
  • Pardoned a convicted drug smuggler who had connections with his son-in-law Jared Kushner's family after her served only two and a half years of his ten-year sentence
    26 Nov 2023
    According to news reports from credible media outlets