The Ultimate Republican Scandals List
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Displaying 51 - 100 of 1075 Scandals
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Justin WellsFox News Producer
12/05/23
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 departmentAccording to a lawsuit filed by alleged victim Andrew Delancey
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George SantosFmr. U.S. Representative [R-NY]
697k
697kMAGA Enthusiast
12/01/23
Charged 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 Enthusiast
11/30/23
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"According to news reports from credible media outlets
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819kMAGA Enthusiast
11/30/23
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 termsAccording to a civil lawsuit filed by the alleged victim
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11/30/23
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 participateAccording to a police complaint filed by the alleged victim
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Peggy JuddFmr. State Representative [R-AZ]MAGA Enthusiast
11/29/23
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 toAccording to charging documents filed by state officials
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Tom CrosbyCounty Commissioner [R-AZ]
11/29/23
Delayed 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 Enthusiast
11/29/23
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 forearmAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President
162.3m
11/26/23
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-lawAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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11/21/23
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 cultureAccording to four Newsmax staffers in an exclusive interview with Mediaite
11/21/23
Showed pictures of a female subordinate’s cleavage to other staff in his office without her knowledge or consentAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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George SantosFmr. U.S. Representative [R-NY]
697k
697kMAGA Enthusiast
11/16/23
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 CongressAccording to charging documents filed by federal officials
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11/14/23
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 himAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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304kMAGA Enthusiast
11/03/23
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 marriedAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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10/30/23
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 period10/30/23
Downloaded felony images depicting children being sexually abused and tried to conceal his identity by using fake online personasAccording to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Jimmy StephensFmr. Sheriff [R-AR]
10/25/23
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 surveillanceAccording to charging documents filed by local police
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483kMAGA Enthusiast
10/24/23
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 legislatorsAccording to charging documents filed by state officials
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Jeremy DurhamFmr. State Representative [R-TN]
10/23/23
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 himAccording to arresting documents filed by local police -
Kenneth ChesebroTrump Campaign AdvisorMAGA Enthusiast
10/20/23
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” electorsAccording to charging documents filed by state officials
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10/20/23
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 itAccording to charging documents filed by federal prosecutors
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Sidney PowellFmr. Trump Campaign LawyerLauded by Trump
10/19/23
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 theoriesAccording to charging documents filed by state officials
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Steve AlembikActivist [R]Donated over $200k to Republican causes
10/17/23
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 attemptAccording to police records first reported by The Miami Herald
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David ColeFmr. State Representative [R-AL]
10/10/23
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 inAccording to charging documents filed by local officials
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President
162.3m
10/05/23
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 PresidencyAccording to an exclusive report by ABC News
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Joseph RobertsActivist [R]
9/29/23
Murdered his fiancée, dismembered her body and stuffed her in a large plastic bag which he discarded near a bridgeAccording to charging documents filed by local police -
Omar NavarroFmr. U.S. Rep Nominee [R-CA]
9/27/23
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 moneyAccording to charging documents filed by local police
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1.1mLauded by Trump
9/26/23
Gave a highly classified binder of FBI documents relating to the 2016 Trump-Russia investigation to two sympathetic right-wing media personalities for propaganda purposesAccording to excerpts from a book by former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President
162.3m
9/26/23
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 yearsAccording to a final ruling issued by the judge overseeing the case
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9/23/23
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 identityAccording to court filings first reported by the local newspaper Index-Journal
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Paul KennedyFmr. Mayor [R-NJ]
9/22/23
According to charging documents filed by local police
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Clarence ThomasSupreme Court Justice [R]
9/22/23
Secretly flew on a private plane to attend events hosted by a right-wing organization which frequently argued cases before the Supreme Court and failed to disclose it which George W. Bush appointed judge John E. Jones III characterized as taking his "breath away" and noted that it would have resulted in a "disciplinary hearing" for any lower court federal judgeAccording to an exclusive investigative report by Pro Publica
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Rudy GiulianiFmr. Mayor [R-NY]
4.2m
9/20/23
Slipped his hand under Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson's blazer and skirt after wrapping his arms around her backstage during Trump's rally just before the 1/6 insurrectionAccording to a book excerpt first reported by The Guardian
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Matt HallState Representative [R-MI]
9/19/23
Wrote two threatening emails in all caps to a fellow student that warned he had just put a bullet inside his shotgun with the student's "NAME ON IT" and told him that he "BETTER WATCH OUT!!" if he didn't want troubleAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Steve BuyerFmr. U.S. Representative [R-IN]32 Years in GOP
9/19/23
Illegally made more than $126,000 in profit after receiving confidential information about T-Mobile's intention to acquire Sprint from a T-Mobile executive at a golf outingIllegally profited more than $223,000 by acting on insider information to purchase shares of Navigant Consulting stock shortly before it was acquired by another consulting firmAccording to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President
162.3m
9/19/23
Urged his longtime personal assistant to lie to federal authorities investigating his illegal retention of classified documents by telling her point-blank "you don't know anything about the boxes" which CNN chief legal analyst Elie Honig characterized as "textbook obstruction of justice" and "textbook witness tampering" that has the protentional to be "really devastating" for TrumpAccording to an exclusive report by ABC News
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Rudy GiulianiFmr. Mayor [R-NY]
4.2m
9/18/23
Was sued for $1.36 million by his former lawyers including one who was a longtime friend for an outstanding legal bill of which he paid off only $214k since 2019According to a lawsuit filed against him by his former attorneys -
Donald Trump45th U.S. President
162.3m
9/18/23
Compromised 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 was uncleared 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 FBIAccording to an exclusive report by ABC News
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9/15/23
Had a multiyear extramarital affair with North Dakota Governer Kristi Noem while also being married with childrenAccording to five sources who spoke exclusively with the New York Post
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2.3mLauded by Trump
9/15/23
Engaged in a multiyear extramarital affair with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski while also being married with three young children who made conservative "family values" a central part of her public personaAccording to five sources who spoke exclusively with the New York Post
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9/14/23
Secretly accepted a golf trip without reporting it as required by law in which a major Republican businessman flew him on a private jet to play a round and stay overnight at the Augusta National Golf Club (the most exclusive in the country) and soon after his administration gave his business $92 million in COVID relief funds to fund a major highway projectAccording to an exclisive report by The Washington Post -
9/14/23
Publicly fondled her date inside a large theater, vaped smokeless tobacco at her seat, loudly sang along to songs that weren't meant to be sung along to and taunted an usher who properly escorted her and her date out of the theaterAccording to video of the incident report by mainstream outlets -
9/13/23
Was sued for sexual harassment for making unwanted sexual advances on a male legislative aide and male legislative internAccording to a civil lawsuit filed by the alleged victims
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Eric UlrichFmr. Commissioner [R-NY]
9/13/23
Accepted over $150,000 in cash and gifts including premium NY Mets season tickets, a discounted beachfront apartment, a bespoke suit and a one-of-a-kind painting by an apprentice of Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí in exchange for helping his co-conspirators gain special access to top officials to get a leg up on various pet projects of theirsAccording to charging documents filed by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg
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9/12/23
Ordered a politicized impeachment inquiry to shamelessly smear President Biden with ridiculous claims to appease Donald Trump and House MAGA House extremists (with leverage to remove him as Speaker) and presumably to also distract from the myriad of real crimes committed by Trump and his associatesAccording to reporting by mainstream outlets
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9/07/23
Opened a sham investigation into Jack Smith's prosecution of Donald Trump and his co-conspirators based on ridiculous claims from a lawyer involved in the case presumably to hinder itAccording to an exclusive report by NBC News
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Kevin TomafskyFmr. Political Aide [R]
9/01/23
Paid the father of a six-year-old girl to engage in a sex act involving penetration and was later found to be in possession of a felony image of a child forced to do similar thingsAccording to charging documents filed by local police first reported by the New Jersey Globe
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Rudy GiulianiFmr. Mayor [R-NY]
4.2m
8/30/23
Lost a defamation lawsuit by Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter for spreading a conspiracy theory that they cast thousands of fraudulent votes for Biden after which despicable zealots made their lives a "living nightmare" with racist and sexist threats, MAGA thugs pushed their way into a family home looking for them and Ruby was forced to vacate her home for 2 months under advice from the FBI which left them both traumatized and fearful for their livesAccording to a federal judge who found him liable for defamation
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463kMAGA Enthusiast
8/26/23
Inappropriately touched a colleague's employee without their consent during a CPAC event in Palm Beach, FloridaAccording to a report by the Washington Post