The Ultimate Republican Scandals List
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Displaying 1 - 100 of 1128 Scandals
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Jason YatesFmr. My Faith Votes CEO11/05/24According to charging documents filed by local officials
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Becky HoodFmr. County Commissioner [R]11/01/24According to charging documents filed by local officials
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President162.3m10/30/24Forcibly kissed and fondled Miss Switzerland Beatrice Keul moments after she was ushered into a room for a private meeting with him less than a month before he married MarlaAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Larry Savage JrFmr. U.S. Rep Candidate10/29/24Was caught on video stuffing two ballots into his sweatshirt pocket that he could later use to cast fraudulent votes during a public testing of local voting machinesAccording to charging documents filed by local officials
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10/27/24Illegally resided in the United States when he launched his first business by utilizing a student visa he was granted for a graduate program at Stanford that he never actually enrolled in and then years later hypocritically claimed that undocumented immigrants are destroying the country he once unlawfully worked in himselfAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President162.3m10/25/24Once blocked $37 million in desperately needed disaster aid that was set aside to help victims displaced by wildfires in Washington simply because he had political disagreements with the state's Democratic governorThe state had to wait until Joe Biden took office to get any federal help
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10/25/24Hired a man she allegedly knew had sexually abused at least ten underage "Ring Boys" who did odd jobs at WWE wrestling events on the condition that he stop abusing young boys which he unsurprisingly did notAccording to a lawsuit filed against the McMahon's by five of the alleged victims
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10/24/24Violated contractual obligations he signed with the US military by acquiescing to Russian President Vladimir Putin's demand that he deny satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favor to the Chinese leader during one of his many secret conversations he had with the Russian leader over a two-year periodAccording to an exclusive report by The Wall Street Journal
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President162.3m10/23/24Placed his hands "all over" model Stacey Williams' breasts, waist and buttocks after being introduced to her by Jeffrey Epstein while he was married to MarlaAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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10/23/24Trespassed on a constituent's front porch and stole a campaign mailer sent by his political opponent and was caught laughing about his actions on the victim's doorbell cameraAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Zachary RadcliffWorship Director at MAGA Church10/21/24Produced and solicited videos and more than 100 images of him sexually abusing multiple children including at least one prepubescent child over a decadelong periodAccording to charging documents filed by local officials10/21/24Allegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President162.3m10/21/24Smeared the "Central Park Five" who spent years in prison for a crime they didn't commit by falsely asserting they pled guilty to killing someone when they did no such thing and in fact had their sentences overturned after DNA evidence emerged proving their innocenceAccording to a federal lawsuit filed by the "Central Park Five"
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Jay CutlerConservative Athlete [R]10/18/24Crashed into another vehicle while driving under the influence of alcohol, attempted to flee the scene after unsuccessfully offering to bribe the driver he hit with $2k to not call the police, slurred his words and refused a field sobriety test when police arrived and was found to be in possession of a loaded pistol and second gun in violation of state lawAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Chuck JohnsonPropagandist [R]10/16/24Was sued by MAGA-friendly investment company Point Bridge Capital for fraud and extortion after he allegedly presented himself as a secret government agent who would sabotage their company unless they agreed to give him and his business partner lopsided investment returnsAccording to news reports from credible media outlets10/16/24Attempted to extort a founder of investment firm Point Bridge Capital by threatening to use government connections (which did not exist) to retaliate against defense and intelligence companies strongly dependent on government contractsAccording to a lawsuit filed by Point Bridge Capital
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Doug HamlinNRA CEO10/14/24Severed a cat's paws, strung the animal up and then set it on fire with the help of four of his fraternity brothers all because it didn't use the litter box properly resulting in criminal charges and expulsion from his fraternityAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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10/14/24Violated election law by displaying the wrong election date in a newspaper advertisement targeting black voters while using the correct date in all other ads including one that was almost exactly the same but targeted white votersAccording to an official complaint filed by the Michigan Legislative Black Caucus
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President162.3m10/14/24Commuted convicted fraudster Phillip Esformes' sentence after he had only served less than two years of his twenty-year sentence for a massive healthcare fraud following a public relations campaign his well-connected family waged with the Trump White House and after released criminally threatened his wife and another family member with verbal threats and by breaking glassware set on a nearby tableAccording to news reports from credible media outlets10/08/24Clandestinely 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 PutinSecretly 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 officeAccording to exclusive reporting by veteran journalist Bob Woodward in his book "War"
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10/04/24Funneled 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 weddingAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Will BraddockFmr. U.S. Rep Candidate9/29/24Threatened to kill his primary opponent and eventual winner Anna Luna by calling up his "Russian-Ukrainian hit squad" to take her outAccording to charging documents filed by federal officials
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9/27/24Deceitfully 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 childrenAccording to an exclusive report by the New York Times
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9/23/24Starred 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 studentsAccording to an exclusive report by Current Revolt
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9/23/24Used his local connections to get a taxpayer funded job in a local town village for his fiancรฉe and a job with the local sanitation department for her sonAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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9/23/24Signed up for an account on a website that connects people looking to engage in extramarital affairs while also being marriedAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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9/23/24Had an affair with a woman and then paid her $7400 for part-time work in his local taxpayer paid for district office that she never showed up for according to four co-workers and only stopped paying her after his fiancรฉe found outAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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Mark RobinsonLt. Governor [R]422k9/19/24Posted such extremely lewd and shocking comments on an adult website that CNN refused to publish the vast majority due to their extraordinarily "graphic nature"According to an exclusive report by CNNWrote 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 herAccording to news reports from credible media outlets9/19/24Frequented 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 periodAccording to an exclusive report by The Assembly: NC
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Jeff DotsethState Representative [R-MN]9/18/24Punched 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 stopAccording to a court affidavit filed by his then-wife9/16/24Threw 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 policeAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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27.8mMAGA Enthusiast9/15/24Sensually 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 GuilfoyleAccording to an exclusive report by the Daily Mail
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9/13/24Had 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 โa Christian, conservative family manโ who adheres to traditional Christian valuesAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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Tina PetersCounty Clerk [R-CO]5k8/13/24Allowed an unauthorized individual to make copies of voting machine hard drives and attend a voting machine software update intended only for credentialed election officialsAccording to charging documents filed by the Colorado Attorney General
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Rocky HayesFmr. Jones County GOP Chair6/25/24Had multiple felony videos of young children between the ages of 8 to 13 doing sexual acts with older men saved on his cloud services accountAccording to a probable cause affidavit obtained by the Sioux Falls Argus Leader
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Samuel AlitoSupreme Court Justice [R]5/22/24Displayed 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 โAppeal to Heavenโ 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 TrumpAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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5/21/24Settled 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 brandAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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Samuel AlitoSupreme Court Justice [R]5/17/24Displayed 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 itAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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5/16/24Pardoned 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 sentenceAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President162.3m5/11/24Illegally 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 returnsAccording to an exclusive joint report by The New York Times and Pro Publica
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244kMAGA Enthusiast5/10/24Diverted 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 campaignAccording to a report released by the nonpartisan House Ethics Committee
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President162.3m5/09/24Asked 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 House5/07/24Criticized 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 timeBlatantly 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 contemptAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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2.3mLauded by Trump4/26/24Killed 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 doNoem admitted to killing the dog in her bookShot 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 animalNoem admitted to killing the goat in her book
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Zack ScrivnerCounty Supervisor4/25/24Allegedly 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 wife4/25/24Armed 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 arrivedAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Clarence ThomasSupreme Court Justice [R]4/25/24Declined 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 PresidentAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President162.3m4/22/24Promised 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 againFirsthand account from a confidential witness who spoke with the FBI about their interactions with Trump
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Tiffany AdamsCimarron County GOP Chair4/17/24Kidnapped 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 grandchildrenAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Lee ChatfieldFmr. House Speaker [R-MI]A+ NRA Rating4/16/24Stole 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 pocketAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Don WilsonState Representative [R-CO]4/12/24Left 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 troopersAccording to a report by USA Today
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Allen WeisselbergCFO [R-NY]4/10/24Lied 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 formsAccording to charging documents filed by state officials
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4/05/24Drank 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 drunkAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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Brian PritchardGeorgia GOP Vice-President3/28/24Illegally 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 caseAccording to an investigative report by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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463kMAGA Enthusiast3/27/24Fondled 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 courtAccording to victim testimony in a report from The Daily Beast
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3/26/24Defamed 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 trialLake asked the court to move directly to the damages phase of the trial which will determine how much Richer is owed for her defamation
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304kMAGA Enthusiast3/25/24Sexually 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 homeAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Alex ZdanFmr. U.S. Senate Candidate3/14/24Swerved 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 0.25According to charging documents filed by local police
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President162.3m3/12/24Ordered 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 retainedFormer Mas-a-Lago manager Brian Butler
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Bo DresnerFmr. Hays County GOP Chair3/11/24Digitally penetrated his 13-year-old daughter after drugging her with a sedative and removing all her clothes while she was unconscious3/11/243/11/24Possessed โhundreds of thousands" felony images depicting child pornography on his electronic devicesAccording to charging documents filed by local police
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Kyle LewterCampaign Manager [R-AL]3/10/24Allegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Daniel RodimerFmr. U.S. Rep Candidate3/08/24Physically struck a victim and had to complete a six-week anger management course in order to have his charges dropped3/07/24Punched 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 lifeAccording to charging documents filed by local police
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2/14/24Asked 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 involvedAccording to an exclusive report by ABC News2/14/24Had 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 attendAccording to an exclusive report by The Daily Beast
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John NovelloFmr. County Commissioner2/14/24Stole over $59k from a local Republican committee and spent it on personal expenses including mortgage payments, wine trips, luxury candies and everyday expenses like groceriesAccording to charging documents filed by local police
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President162.3m1/26/24Was 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 damagesAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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1/25/24Defecated 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 head1/25/24Teamed 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 married1/25/24Showed illicit photos and videos of a WWE employee he had a nonconsensual sexual relationship with to multiple people without her knowledge or consentAccording to a lawsuit filed by the alleged victim
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1/24/24Was 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 leadershipAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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1/17/24Settled 14 separate lawsuits brought by former employees who alleged he illegally withheld their overtime pay for an undisclosed amountAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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Keri BlairFmr. School Board Member1/12/24Stole 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 lineAccording to charging documents filed by local police
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Tony YochamFmr. Chief of Police [R-TX]1/09/24Sexually abused a child multiple times before he was caught and arrested while also being a married father of five childrenAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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12.3mMAGA Enthusiast1/06/24Choked 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 toAccording to an exclusive interview the alleged victim conducted with The Sun
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President162.3m1/04/24Remained 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 officeAccording to an exclusive report by The New York Times
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Braylee EstepSouth Carolina GOP Director1/03/24Violently 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 offenderAccording to charging documents filed by local police
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President162.3m1/01/24Lied 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"According to a civil lawsuit filed by former investors of the company
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Nico RiosState Representative [R-ND]12/23/23Spewed 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 officersAccording to charging documents filed by local police
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463kMAGA Enthusiast12/16/23Stripped down to his underwear and grinded against another male without his consent at a fundraising event in Florida while also being marriedAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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12/13/23Had 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 lifeAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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12/13/23Secretly 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 votesAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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12/09/23Secretly recorded him and his wife Bridget Ziegler having group sex with a woman they had a sexual relationship withAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Raymond NeubergerFmr. City Council Member12/07/23Allegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets12/07/23Chemically burned his girlfriend's cat so viciously that its tail had to be amputated and then threatened to "inflict chemical burns" on responding police officers and told one detective that he'd "make him pay" if he was arrestedAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Justin WellsFox News Producer12/05/23Was 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 departmentAccording to a lawsuit filed by alleged victim Andrew Delancey
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George SantosFmr. U.S. Representative697k697kMAGA Enthusiast12/01/23Charged fellow US Rep. Mas Miller's credit card for political donations that "exceeded FEC limits" without his knowledge or consentAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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350kMAGA Enthusiast11/30/23Participated 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"According to news reports from credible media outlets
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819kMAGA Enthusiast11/30/23Covered 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 termsAccording to a civil lawsuit filed by the alleged victim
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11/30/23Raped 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 participateAccording to a police complaint filed by the alleged victim
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Peggy JuddFmr. State RepresentativeMAGA Enthusiast11/29/23Illegally 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 toAccording to charging documents filed by state officials
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Tom CrosbyCounty Commissioner [R-AZ]11/29/23Delayed certifying the results of his county's 2022 midterm election by citing baseless allegations of supposed voter fraudAccording to charging documents filed by state officials
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2.5mMAGA Enthusiast11/29/23Grabbed 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 forearmAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President162.3m11/26/23Pardoned 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-lawAccording to news reports from credible media outlets