Republican Scandals Due to Negligent Actions While in Office
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4/20/25Shared classified details of military strikes against Yemen to a group chat he created that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer
According to an exclusive report by the New York TimesShared highly classified operational details about a pending military strike against Yemen to a group chat with other top Administration officials on an unsecured app
According to an exclusive report by The Atlantic -
John RatcliffeCIA Director
3/24/25Included the name of an undercover CIA agent in a group chat on an unsecured publicly available app which potentially could have exposed her identity to our adversaries if they were spying on the conversation
According to an exclusive report by The Atlantic -
3/24/25Inexplicably included a prominent journalist to a group chat that included the Vice President, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State and other high-ranking Trump Adm. officials on a publicly available app that discussed highly classified war plans against a foreign adversary
According to an exclusive report by The Atlantic -
2/14/25Shared classified national security information about a confidential government agency that designs, builds and maintains America's intelligence satellites on a public website for all to see
According to news reports from credible media outlets -
1/27/25Violated established protocols and nearly foiled a classified hostage rescue mission of two Americans held captive in Yemen by publicly commenting about it to a reporter before the American hostages had been rescued which infuriated FBI officials who claimed his recklessness put the entire mission at risk
According to an FBI whistleblower and first reported by CBS News -
Joshua KindredFmr. Federal Judge [R]
7/08/24Kissed and grabbed his law clerk's buttocks without her consent inside his chambers after taking her there instead of her home as he had promised following a night of drinking at a local bar
According to a report by the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit -
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 drunk
According to news reports from credible media outlets -
Donald Trump47th U.S. President




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3/12/24Ordered 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 retained
Former Mas-a-Lago manager Brian ButlerShared 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
According to an exclusive report by ABC News -


1.1mLauded by Trump
9/26/23Gave a highly classified binder of FBI documents relating to the 2016 Trump-Russia investigation to two sympathetic right-wing media personalities for propaganda purposes
According to excerpts from a book by former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson -
Donald Trump47th U.S. President




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9/18/23Compromised classified information on notecards used to brief him during phone calls with international leaders by using the backs to write every day to-do lists to his personal assistant who didn't have the security clearance required to access classified information and, unaware, also kept them in her unsecured office in Mar-a-Lago until eventually noticing classified markings and alerting the FBI
According to an exclusive report by ABC News -
Donald Trump47th U.S. President




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7/27/23Ordered a Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker to move and hide 64 boxes filled with highly classified and sensitive information after receiving a subpoena that ordered him to return all government documents in his possession
6/09/23Showed a classified map detailing a secret military operation he illegally retained when he left the White House to a staffer of his PAC after admitting that he shouldn't be showing it to anyone and telling the staffer not to get "too close" to it while meeting with him at his Bedminster golf club
According to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack SmithShowed and discussed a top-secret military map that he illegally retained when he left the White House which laid out a "plan of attack" against Iran to a writer, publisher and two staffers who did not have security clearances at an insecure location at his Bedminster golf club
According to can audio recording during which he admitted on tape that the map was "highly confidential" and that he "could have declassified" it when he was President but "now I can't" -
Walt NautaTrump "Bodyman"
6/09/23Hid boxes filled with classified and highly sensitive government documents after his boss Donald Trump was subpoenaed for them which were later found when the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago and then lied to federal agents when they questioned him about it
According to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith -
Donald Trump47th U.S. President




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6/09/23Ordered his personal aide and "body man" Walt Nauta to move and hide 64 boxes filled with highly classified and sensitive information after receiving a subpoena that ordered him to return all government documents in his possession
6/09/23Stored top-secret and classified documents he illegally took with him to Mar-a-Lago at the conclusion of his term in his unsecured office, bathroom, bedroom, ballroom and storage room in plain view for tens of thousands of guests and potential US adversaries to see and lied to his own attorneys about his knowledge of any classified documents in his possession which resulted in his lawyer unwittingly submitting a false sworn certification of that fact to federal investigators
According to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith -


1.1mLauded by Trump
6/08/23Removed more than a thousand pages of classified documents from the White House on Trump's orders and was seen putting them in the trunk of his car late at night on the final evening of his presidency
According to three former top aides to Meadows reported on by Murray Waas in an exclusive report published on Substack -
5/19/23Repeatedly slurred his speech and swayed back and forth as he led official proceedings as the Texas Speaker of the House in a way fellow Republican and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton described as "debilitating intoxication"
According to reports by local and state media -
Rudy GiulianiFmr. NYC Mayor [R]






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5/16/23Drank alcohol "all day and night" despite having serious professional responsibilities including being a lawyer for Donald Trump according to his aide Noelle Dunphy who had a job to make sure he was a "functioning" alcoholic
5/15/23Discussed classified and sensitive information with Donald Trump on speakerphone while his aide could hear and gave the same aide unfettered access to his email accounts that also contained confidential and highly sensitive information
According to a civil lawsuit filed by former employee Noelle Dunphy reported on by mainstream outlets -
4/13/23Slapped his legislative aide across the face and instructed him to go stand in a corner after he drunkenly interrupted a conversation to ask his aide if he had recently "slept with" the woman he was talking with
According to a civil lawsuit filed by the alleged victim -
Richard EckstromFmr. State Comptroller31 Years in GOP
3/23/23Misreported $3.5 billion that did not exist in South Carolina's yearly financial report due to a coding error that compounded for 15 years while he was in charge during which he once brandished an "Accounting for Dummies" book at a talk for new employees for dramatic effect and may explain why he ignored repeated warnings by auditors and waited five years to approve a recommended full review that finally uncovered the problem
According to an investigative report by South Carolina representatives that resulted in his resignation -
2/22/23Gave Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of January 6 insurrection footage captured by surveillance cameras throughout the Capitol complex despite the very real possibility that sensitive information pertaining to the security of the Capitol could be made public
According to an exclusive report by Axios -
Donald Trump47th U.S. President




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2/07/23Granted Melania Trump access to the White House Situation Room during a highly secretive US military raid targeting an ISIS leader in a clear breach of rules prohibiting people who lack the proper security clearance from entering the room
Melania wrote about the incident in her memoirShared an image taken from a highly secretive spy satellite that could have helped adversaries better understand US spy capabilities to his Twitter followers
According to a declassified document obtained by NPR -
3/05/22Broke security protocols by sharing live images of a briefing U.S. Representatives & Senators had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy despite being asked not to share any posts or images until the meeting had concluded
According to reporting by NBC News & other media outlets -
Loren CulpFmr. Chief of Police Candidate
7/05/20Refused to report a 17-year-old victim's credible allegations against her stepfather who had been raping and sexually assaulting her since she was only 5 years old in violation of state law and threatened to charge her with making false claims instead
According to a lawsuit filed by the alleged victim and reported by local media -
Donald Trump47th U.S. President




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9/09/19Discussed highly sensitive and classified intelligence with Russia's Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the US that worried US officials so much they secretly extracted one of its most senior covert intelligence assets inside of Russia out of fear for their safety
According to multiple top officials in the Trump Administration and first reported on by CNNOrdered that his son-in-law Jared Kushner receive a top-secret security clearance over the objection of national security and intelligence officials who recommended he be denied clearance due to his business ties in foreign countries
According to an investigative report by The New York Times who
1/13/19Confiscated the notes taken by a staffer who interpreted a meeting between himself and Vladimir Putin and ordered them to not divulge details of the conversation even to senior members in his Administration, which former deputy secretary of state Strobe Tallbott said gave Putin "much more scope to manipulate Trump" because senior Administration officials are left in the dark
According to current and former officials and reported on by The Washington Post
10/24/18Used an unsecured private cell phone to speak with friends and acquaintances even after repeated warnings from US intelligence officials that Chinese and Russian spies were listening in on his calls
According to both current and former US officials and reported on by The New York Times -
Blake FarentholdFmr. U.S. RepresentativeTea Party Enthusiast
12/01/17Routinely "drank to excess” at Capitol Hill functions so much that his staff felt they had to be on "red head patrol" in order to "keep him out of trouble" because he would regularly say sexually improper things to female staff and lobbyists when he was drunk
According to an exclusive report by Politico -
Donald Trump47th U.S. President




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11/22/17Shared highly classified information with Russia's Foreign Minister given by Israel in confidence about an undercover mission to penetrate ISIS fighters developing undetectable bombs of which a retired former intelligence officer noted how damaging this was in that ally countries would now "think twice before sharing sensitive information" with the USA because Trump cannot be trusted to keep the information secure
According to multiple Administration officials and reported on my numerous media outlets -
John KellyFmr. Trump Chief of StaffLauded by TrumpLauded by Trump
10/06/17Failed to take appropriate security precautions to keep his personal devices secure during his time at Homeland Security and later as Trump's Chief-of-Staff, potentially exposing his private conversations to US adversaries
According to a report by Politico -
Donald Trump47th U.S. President




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7/25/17Divulged the existence of a secret CIA program that armed and trained fighters aiming to topple Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad from power on his Twitter account
According to a Tweet he posted on his official account -
Shawn HamerlinckFmr. State Senator [R-IA]
7/18/17Drank alcohol to excess while doing business on the state house floor to the point that a fellow Republican state senator threatened to make him submit to a breathalyzer to make sure he wasn't drunk
According to an exclusive report by The Des Moines Register -
Matthew ShirkFmr. District Attorney
1/05/17Discussed showering and having sex with three subordinates in private messages, sent one a private message that said "I think if we had sex there would be very minimal awkwardness afterwards," drank to excess with them in his office and later fired all three after his wife caught him
According to an exclusive report by The Florida Times-Union
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