The Ultimate Republican Scandals List

Falsely accused someone he barely knew of sexual assault by distributing flyers in their neighborhood with his name and photo, inundated him and members of his family with a torrent of messages, traveled to his county the week he got married apparently to harass him and created a fake account on a gay website in their name simply because he didn't respond to text messages fast enough

Was charged with solicitation of murder and prosecutors were so concerned about her potential for violence that they asked a judge to deny bail and keep her in jail until the conclusion of her trial

Sent multiple nude photos of himself to a 12-year-old girl he preyed on via Snapchat over a monthslong period while also being married

Exposed himself to an undercover police officer in a local park filled with families & alluded that he wanted to have sex

Reportedly threatened to physically attack a conservative radio host and accosted the wife of a local county GOP chair without provocation during a drunken rage at a party hosted by Republican state senator Matt Leber

Was charged with forcible rape and ordered to avoid any contact with his victim

Was charged with DUI after getting pulled over around 2am, failing field sobriety tests & having a BAC over 0.08%

Illegally claimed a $6k federal tax deduction by falsely claiming he was a combat veteran who served in the Navy SEALs

Severely damaged his truck after he crashed into a telephone pole and then fled the scene instead of calling the authorities

Stole $2 million from his business partner over a two-and-a-half-year period by improperly diverting company assets to a secret corporation he and his wife created

Sexually harassed a female government employee and retaliated against her when she filed an official complaint and then used taxpayer dollars to settle a lawsuit she filed against him and the town

Made sexualized advances towards a 16-year-old girl who worked in his office

Bilked his 300 clients out of over $140 million by operating a Ponzi scheme that funneled nearly $20 million to his personal accounts which he spent on jewelry, rare coins and luxury vacations while grossly mismanaging his firm's books at the same time, yet the DOJ only brought a CIVIL lawsuit against him

Was charged with "sexual imposition" following an incident on April 25th, 2025 that a special prosecutor determined warranted his arrest

Decreased his home’s assessed value in an apparent attempt to illegally lower his taxes by taking advantage of his position as town assessor

Had an unregistered pistol, a second gun and a stun gun that was shaped like brass knuckles which police found in his car after they pulled him over following a 911 call that reported he was heavily armed and driving to confront someone

Bluntly told a married colleague's husband that he is "gonna f*ck your wife" right in front of her while also being married and proceeded to act like nothing happened at all when they ran into each other at work the very next day

Embraced a married colleague's husband and told him that he planned on "f*cking your wife" right in front of her which she made abundantly clear wouldn't happen while also being married

Approached a woman he barely knew at a party and told her that he'd put his "d*ck in [her] mouth" before doubling down and asking her if she'd prefer to put his "d*ck in [her] vagina" instead while also being married

Pardoned a man who was convicted of assaulting a capitol police officer on 1/6 who went on to get sentenced to life in prison for conspiring to assassinate FBI agents and other law enforcement officials and attack their buildings with car bombs and other explosive devices

Coerced a court clerk to withhold testimony in a case against her boss and fellow Republican Robert Jenkins Franklin

Drove erratically around 1am and had a "dazed expression," bloodshot eyes, smelled of alcohol and refused to take a breathalyzer after police pulled her over

Groped a woman's breast and legs inside of his police cruiser and unsuccessfully attempted to coerce her into doing other "things she did not want to do" before she was able to exit his car and report his actions to the police

Tried to coerce a young woman into giving him oral sex inside his police cruiser and then began "rubbing his crotch" while she sat next to him after she repeatedly told him she would not do what he asked

Unsuccessfully tried to coerce a female inmate housed at a county jail into becoming his "sex slave" and pay him $2,500 in exchange for his help getting the judge and assistant district attorney overseeing her case to go lenient on her

Groped, choked and forcibly kissed a handcuffed and shackled female inmate he cornered inside a visiting room at a county jail

Masturbated in a general store's video lottery room and was caught in the act on surveillance video

Threatened to kill a state senator over his opposition to a shrimp trawling ban state legislators were considering

Drove into a Taco Bell parking lot around midnight with his running board dragging on the ground behind him, ran over a group of rocks and a culvert, hit the bumper of a vehicle and then fled the scene

Was charged with felony domestic abuse of his ex-wife and was ordered to restrain from contacting her in any way

Shot an unarmed tenant five times as he tried to flee from her resulting in his death and then lied to police and claimed self-defense which State's Attorney Michelle Manning refuted because video surveillance clearly showed her victim was aggressive towards her in "no way, shape, or form"

Weaved in and out of his lane in his sheriff's vehicle on an interstate highway, failed a field sobriety test after police pulled him over & was later found to have a BAC over twice the legal limit when he arrived at the local jail

Lied to state officials about her role in helping improperly funnel money from a Super PAC she was associated with that secretly funded a right-wing ballot initiative in Michigan

Defamed a top employee at Dominion Voting Systems following the 2020 election by baselessly accusing him of being a traitor and was ordered to pay him $2.3 million in damages

Drugged and sexually molested a 16-year-old boy on at least one occasion and coerced him into consuming cocaine and alcohol numerous other times which the victim said "destroyed" his entire life

Repeatedly groped a young man's penis and tried to kiss him against his will inside a hot tub after peer pressuring him into consuming cocaine and alcohol despite his protestations

Drugged and sexually molested a young man inside his home who woke up while Tait was manually stimulating him

Groped a young man's thigh and stroked his ear without consent shortly after finishing a meal with him

Groped a young man's bare rearend under his clothing and also exposed himself to the same male earlier in the night

Exposed and manually stimulated himself in front of a 13-year-old boy for upwards of an entire minute inside of a restaurant bathroom

Sexually assaulted at least three underage boys and young men, inappropriately touched at least four others and routinely binged on hard drugs and alcohol with many more including underage boys over a decadeslong period which he himself admitted was like living a "double life" considering he preached "traditional" heterosexual relationships, sexual abstinence and sobriety in his music

Provoked a brawl, snatched a security officer's gun and shot at a man outside a celebrity boxing event in Miami and then fled to Dubai after being charged

Shared and exchanged at least 220 felony media depicting very young children being sexually abused to a social messaging platform while also being a married father of young children who is a self-proclaimed "family values" Christian

Drunkenly beat his son with a baseball bat around 2am and then snuck marijuana into jail following his arrest

Stole over $58,000 from taxpayers by falsifying cash slips and checks drawn from county bank accounts she managed to make it appear that lower amounts of taxes and other revenue were received

Solicited sex from and exchanged nude photos with underage boys and young men as young as 14 via the gay app Grindr over a 10-year period

Failed to pay child support to the point that he was criminally charged for his negligence

Illegally downloaded lewd photos and videos depicting a human engaged in sexual conduct with an animal and then erased his search history in a failed attempt to hide his crime

Raked in more than $700,000 for himself and his daughter in exchange for helping to steer more than $10 million in COVID relief funds to a nonprofit she worked at that was supposed to feed needy seniors who were food insecure but instead spent lavishly on private expenses including a $1 million home

Solicited sex from a 14-year-old boy and sent them a nude photo of himself via the gay app Grindr

Illegally deputized six individuals who didn't have the proper certifications for employment and sent four of them to work as armed school resourced officers in charge of keeping children safe while hiring another as an armed jailer

Intentionally falsified documents to hide from the IRS the real financial status of his private businesses

Forced his way into an elderly woman's house and stole her late husband's handgun as she hid in the bedroom

Unsuccessfully tried to bribe an underage male victim of his son's sexual assault to keep him from having to face any legal consequences for his actions

Threatened a defendant that "dead men can't testify" and pressured him to accept a plea deal that he didn't want to agree to during a phone call with him two days before his court date

Coerced the chief clerk for his office into signing a false affidavit in an attempt to skirt accountability in a civil lawsuit he was involved with

Sent multiple anonymous letters verbally attacking local board of education members in a threatening manner

Raped and trafficked at least three women in the United Kingdom over a yearslong period and was charged by UK authorities over ten years after his reported crimes

Conspired with disgraced former Congressman George Santos to submit fraudulent campaign finance reports that falsely asserted he had loaned his campaign $500,000 because it made him look wealthier than he actually was and helped him get donor funding he very likely otherwise wouldn't have received

Pardoned convicted felon Paul Walczak and spared him from serving any of his 18-month prison sentence or having to pay a penny of his nearly $4.4 million fine mere days after his mother attended a $1 million per person fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago

Pardoned convicted fraudsters Todd and Julie Chrisley who illegally obtained over $30 million in improper loans and failed to pay any taxes on it mere months into their multi-year sentences

Physically assaulted someone in his household and was arrested by the police after they determined he was at fault

Pardoned former MAGA sheriff Scott Jenkins who was convicted of accepting over $75k in bribes the day before he was set to begin serving his 10-year prison sentence

Hit another vehicle while driving drunk with a BAC nearly three times the legal limit with his young daughter in the car during the middle of a workday and then tried to get out of trouble by telling the arresting officer that he was a judge and named police officers he personally knew

Threatened to kill his primary opponent and eventual winner Anna Luna by calling up his "Russian-Ukrainian hit squad" to take her out and then fled to Thailand in a failed attempt to escape justice

Pardoned a man who was still facing charges over his alleged role in the 1/6 insurrection who at the time of his pardon was under indictment for being caught with multiple firearms and ammunition near President Obama’s D.C. residence and for making a hoax bomb threat

Created a fictitious consulting company along with state reps. Glen Casada and Robin Smith where they charged taxpayers $51,947 for official mailing services and hid his involvement in the scheme by submitting fake invoices to state officials and also paid Casada and Smith a bribe in exchange for their help in securing government approval for the fake consulting company to operate as an official state vendor

Created a fictitious consulting company along with state rep. Robin Smith and his chief of staff where they charged taxpayers $51,947 for official mailing services and hid his involvement in the scheme by submitting fake invoices to state officials and also accepted bribes from his chief of staff in exchange for his help in securing government approval for the fake consulting company to operate as an official state vendor

Gave access to sealed evidence during the infamous Murdaugh murder trial, lied about doing so under oath and used her position to promote a book about it which almost led to a mistrial.

Embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money meant for a development he never intended to build and used the money to purchase four vehicles, gold, silver and platinum bars, and to pay off personal debts

Passed out in her car while idling in the middle of the road and then crashed into a parked vehicle after an officer woke her up and was taken to the hospital for observation because her BAC was over three times the legal limit

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

Illegally put pressure on a government official to reassess their decision on a property appraisal she had an interest in

Illegally contacted a witness he was ordered to refrain from speaking with and was ordered to be held behind bars until he's sentenced for a separate crime he pled guilty to

Had an illicit sexual relationship with a female inmate at the jail he worked at which in no way could have been considered consensual considering the power imbalance between the two

Allegedly solicited sexual favors from a female inmate at the jail he worked at

Pardoned a man who had yet to serve a single day of his 54-month federal prison sentence for assaulting US Capitol police officers and a press photographer on 1/6 while he was also awaiting sentencing for reckless homicide and aggravated DUI for intentionally driving the wrong way on an Illinois highway in what he testified was a failed suicide attempt

Possessed 565 felony images of prepubescent children as young as twelve-years-old on his electronic devices

Stole at least $12,779 in county taxpayer funds by submitting false timecards for overtime pay he wasn't entitled to and then erased official records from his county-issued phone before he resigned in an attempt to cover his tracks

Smuggled illegal prescription drugs, cell phones & phone chargers into a prison by concealing everything within a set of glued-together legal documents that he passed through a prison fence to an inmate on the inside

Sexually assaulted a woman who also refused to have sex with him in exchange for money and political help in a child custody dispute

Pardoned convicted felon and former Nevada lawmaker Michele Fiore who was found guilty of stealing over $70k from a police charity meant for an officer killed in the line of duty before she ever had to face any type of judgement for her crimes

Sexually assaulted his own daughter whom he got so intoxicated on an extremely potent alcoholic drink on her 21st birthday that she had to be taken to her hotel room in a wheelchair so he could violate her

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

Solicited a prostitute in a sting operation where he negotiated a price for sex over the Internet but was arrested by undercover police officers when he arrived at the hotel room they sent him to

Shared classified details of military strikes against Yemen to a group chat he created that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer

Illegally pocketed at least $28,000 from hundreds of people who paid her roughly $150 each for her to select them as poll workers over a multiyear period

Crashed into another vehicle causing it to roll over multiple times resulting in injuries to the victim's hands, face and chest that required hospitalization while pulling out of a gas station driving under the influence of alcohol and was arrested by police after he submitted to a breathalyzer test that found he had a BAC nearly twice the legal limit

Was pulled over for suspected DUI and later convicted of an "alcohol-related reckless driving" offense

Fraudulently inflated his assets by tens of millions of dollars and grossly underreported his liabilities by millions more to financial institutions on multiple loan applications which led to him being approved for loans totaling $172 million that otherwise wouldn't have been approved and then lied to authorities when they confronted him

Fraudulently listed a vacation rental she didn't live at as her official address on campaign filings

Robbed a gas station at knifepoint & threatened to kill the employee if they didn't comply with his demands

Illegally ran for county commissioner in a district she didn't live in by fraudulently asserting that she lived there

Illegally ran for county commissioner in a district she didn't live in by fraudulently asserting that she lived there

Groped an inebriated woman who had just consumed highly potent (and illegal) THC that he gave her following a night out drinking

Had roughly 1,000 videos depicting explicit sex acts involving prepubescent and underage girls saved on his phone and tablet which he quickly admitted to ownership of after US Customs officials flagged him for a secondary inspection when his flight arrived in the US