The Ultimate Republican Scandals List

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Displaying 551 - 600 of 1074 Scandals
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  • Steve WatkinsSteve WatkinsFmr. U.S. Representative [R-KS]95.3% Voted with Trump
    7/14/20
    Illegally used a local UPS store as his legal address for voting purposes in violation of state election law
    According to charging documents filed by local officials
  • Paul EricksonPolitical Operative [R]
       
    7/06/20
    Stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from victims including his own god mother, family members, friends and former classmates by convincing them to invest in various schemes he concocted that promised massive returns, but instead kept the money for himself
    He was sentenced to seven years in federal prison but served only 8 months after Trump pardoned him
  • Loren CulpLoren CulpFmr. Chief of Police [R-WA]
       
    7/05/20
    Threatened to charge a 17-year-old rape victim who reported her stepfather for sexually molesting her since she was only 5 years with making false claims and didn't report her accusations to the state Department of Social and Health Services as required by state law, which allowed the offender to remain free for another year until a nearby police department arrested the relative
    According to a lawsuit filed by the alleged victim and reported by local media
  • Joel GreenbergJoel GreenbergFmr. Tax Collector [R-FL]Friend of Rep. Matt Gaetz
    6/23/20
    Received over $400k in federal COVID relief by falsely claiming two defunct businesses were still operational
    According to charging documents by federal authorities
    6/23/20
    Maliciously smeared his GOP primary opponent as being a racist child molester through defamatory posts from fake social media accounts he created
    According to charging documents filed by federal officials
  • Vanessa TijerinaFmr. State Sen. Candidate [R-TX]
       
    6/11/20
    Refused to obey repeated police commands to roll down her window while parked at a local restaurant because they smelled a strong odor of marijuana inside her car and suspected she was under the influence of drugs or alcohol and was caught with multiple "crack pipes" in her car that her young child was also a passenger in
    According to charging documents filed by local police
  • Ian SmithIan SmithFmr. U.S. Rep Candidate [R-NJ]
       
    5/23/20
    Killed a 19-year-old after he drunkenly barreled through a stop sign and crashed into his victim's car and admitted to police that he drank 10-12 beers not long before his crash
    According to charging documents filed by local police
  • Curtis HillCurtis HillFmr. Attorney General [R-IN]
       
    5/11/20
    Drunkenly walked up and grabbed a legislative assistant's buttocks and told her and the group of women she was standing with that they'll "have to show a little skin!" if they wanted free drinks, creepily rubbed another legislative assistant's back for over two minutes and inappropriately touched a state lawmaker and another legislative assistant all at the same party which resulted in the state Supreme Court reprimanding him for committing the "criminal act of battery" and suspending him for 30 days
    According to a final ruling by the Indiana Supreme Court
  • Rebecca DohertyState Judge [R-OH]
       
    4/16/20
    Crashed her SUV into a ditch and then told the police who arrived and observed vomit in her car and a strong odor of alcohol on her breath that "I am absolutely out of my mind. I am so intoxicated," failed a field sobriety test and refused a breathalyzer test and tried to get out of trouble by telling the officers that she was a judge -- several times -- and demanded they call a sheriff's deputy in a not-so-veiled attempt to avoid getting arrested for drunk driving
    According to charging documents filed by local police
  • Derek LewisState Representative [R-KY]
       
    4/16/20
    Crashed his pickup truck into a ditch, almost fell over getting out, had bloodshot eyes, slurred his words, acted belligerently, refused to do field sobriety tests telling police “I ain’t gonna do a goddamn thing you want” and then tried to use his position in government to get out of trouble by repeatedly demanding that the deputy call the local sheriff on his behalf
    According to a police report filed by local officials
  • Kelly LoefflerKelly LoefflerFmr. U.S. Senator [R-GA]Twitter iconFacebook iconInstagram icon266k
    3/19/20
    Cashed in between $1.275 and $3.1 million in stocks from companies seen as vulnerable to the burgeoning COVID-19 outbreak over a series of 27 transactions that began mere hours after she received a confidential Senate briefing
    According to financial disclosures reported on by the media
  • Shirley SosebeeFmr. Tax Collector [R-GA]
       
    3/17/20
    Forged her own brother's signature on a land deed in an attempt to transfer the title to her family without having to pay for the property
    According to charging documents filed by state officials
  • Donald TrumpDonald Trump45th U.S. PresidentTwitter iconFacebook iconInstagram iconTikTok iconYouTube iconTruthSocial icon162.3m
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    3/14/20
    Asked 17-year-old teenage model Barbara Pilling out for a dinner date while he was still married to Ivana and then exclaimed "you're not too old and not too young. That's just great!" when she told him her age
    Firsthand account from Barbara Pilling in a report aired by The Guardian
  • Gabrielle LeDouxGabrielle LeDouxFmr. State Representative [R-AK]
       
    3/13/20
    Asked people who no longer lived in her home district to break the law and vote there anyway in two different elections, one of which she only won by 117 votes
    According to charging documents filed by local police
  • Mike McCullyFmr. Deputy Sheriff [R-OK]
       
    3/12/20
    Was fired by his Republican boss he was running against in a sheriff's election who claimed he improperly arrested an innocent black man, was insubordinate, disobeyed the chain of command and misused trademarked county images for his campaign
    According to a report by The Oklahoman
  • Mitchell EnglanderMitchell EnglanderFmr. City Council Member [R-CA]
       
    3/09/20
    Had sex with an escort that was paid for by a businessperson he was accepting bribes from during a trip in Las Vegas while being married to his "high school sweetheart" and having two children
    According to charging documents filed by federal officials
    3/09/20
    Accepted bribes during a lavish trip to Las Vegas which included $10k in cash, a free room, sex with an escort and a nearly $35,000 tab at a night club in exchange for directing major development projects to a prominent businessman in Los Angeles
    According to charging documents filed by federal officials
  • Kim ChaneyKim ChaneyFmr. State Judge [R-AL]
       
    2/26/20
    Improperly directed $105,000 in court-appointed legal work to his son who was an attorney in the public defenders office
    According to a final ruling by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary that fined him $3,700
  • George GilmoreOcean County GOP Chair
       
    2/22/20
    Cashed out over $570,000 from a $1.5 million mortgage loan he was able to refinance by lying to his bank about outstanding tax liabilities and illegally diverted his employees' payroll taxes to his personal accounts in order to maintain a lavish lifestyle and pay down his own tax obligations
    He was found guilty and sentenced to one year in federal prison but was pardoned by Trump before he began serving his sentence
  • Donald TrumpDonald Trump45th U.S. PresidentTwitter iconFacebook iconInstagram iconTikTok iconYouTube iconTruthSocial icon162.3m
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    2/18/20
    Pardoned a Republican House candidate and QAnon conspiracy theorist who was a major Trump backer and previously served two years in prison for her role in an organized auto theft ring back in 2004
    2/18/20
    Pardoned former New York police commissioner and vocal Trump supporter Bernard Kerik who illegally received over $250,000 from a company with suspected connections to organized crime four years after his prison sentence concluded after lobbying from his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani
    2/18/20
    Rewarded business executive Paul Pogue who served three years' probation for failing to pay over $400k in taxes with a pardon months after his son and daughter-in-law donated $238,541 to Trump's reelection campaign
    According to news reports from credible media outlets
  • Kate GibbsKate GibbsFmr. U.S. Rep Candidate [R-NJ]
       
    2/15/20
    Hid $80 worth of clothes in a shopping bag and left a Kohl's department store without paying which resulted in her getting banned from the store and having to pay a $280 fine
    According to an exclusive report by the Burlington County Times
  • Eric GreitensEric GreitensFmr. Governor [R-MO]Facebook iconTwitter iconInstagram iconTruthSocial icon590k
    2/13/20
    Violated campaign finance law by coordinating with a Super PAC that ran political attack ads against his opponents without reporting the ads as a gift as required by state and federal law and was fined $178,000 by The Missouri Ethics Commission
    According to the results of a state ethics investigation which found he violated the law
  • Jesse WattersJesse WattersFox News HostTwitter iconFacebook iconTikTok iconInstagram icon6m
    1/10/20
    Instigated a sexual relationship with a subordinate 14 years younger than him after intentionally deflating her tires so "she couldn't go anywhere" and therefore make it more likely she would accept a ride home from him while being married with two young children
    According to an acknowledgement on live TV in which he bragged about his actions
  • Trump Campaign  
       
    12/24/19
    Was sued for discrimination by a staffer who alleged the campaign rescinded a job offer in the Trump White House after finding out that she was pregnant with incoming White House communications director Jason Miller's child
    According to a civil lawsuit filed by former staffer A.J. Delgado
  • Matt BevinMatt BevinFmr. Governor [R-KY]Facebook iconTwitter iconInstagram icon154k
    12/14/19
    Rewarded convicted murderer Patrick Baker -- who had only served two years of his 19-year sentence -- with a pardon after his family donated $29,500 to his reelection campaign
    According to reporting by mainstream media outlets
    Pardoned a man who murdered his 6-week-old baby so brutally that "the seams between the bones in his skull were pushed half an inch apart" after he had only served 18-years of his life sentence
    Pardoned a man convicted of raping a 9-year-old girl roughly one year into his 23-year sentence
    According to news reports from credible media outlets
    Pardoned a man convicted of sodomizing an unconscious 15-year-old boy with a sex toy less than 4 years into his 15-year sentence
    Pardoned a man convicted of sexually abusing his 6-year-old stepdaughter
    According to news reports from credible media outlets
  • Omar NavarroOmar NavarroFmr. U.S. Rep Nominee [R-CA]
       
    12/10/19
    Lurked outside his ex-girlfriends home late at night and texted her "b*tch, I came to see you" from a blocked number in violation of a five-year restraining order she received against him earlier in the year and was apprehended by police when they responded to her 911 call
    According to charging documents filed by local police
  • Donald TrumpDonald Trump45th U.S. PresidentTwitter iconFacebook iconInstagram iconTikTok iconYouTube iconTruthSocial icon162.3m
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    12/09/19
    Illegally entered the Trump Plaza hotel suite of a world-famous model who wouldn't return his phone calls intruding on her and her boyfriend while they were naked in bed, promptly left slamming the door and then angrily lashed out that he hates "sloppy seconds" when they confronted him about it soon afterwards in the lobby presumably out of jealousy that she had rejected him for another man all while being married to Marla Maples
    Firsthand account from the model's boyfriend at the time who was with her when Trump entered the room
    12/09/19
    Paraded teenage girls aged fourteen to sixteen-years-old down a yacht's staircase and had them individually dance for him while he lapped everything up in a way one former model later described as "objectifying" and "gross"
    Firsthand account from then fourteen-year-old model Shawna Lee
  • Jonathan ParkerJonathan ParkerFmr. Idaho GOP Chair
       
    12/09/19
    Repeatedly spied on his estranged wife from the bushes outside her apartment window while pleasuring himself which also violated a restraining order against him that she was granted
    He pleaded guilty to stalking and was sentenced to 27 days in jail and five years of probation
  • Donald TrumpDonald Trump45th U.S. PresidentTwitter iconFacebook iconInstagram iconTikTok iconYouTube iconTruthSocial icon162.3m
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    12/09/19
    Barged in on teenage girls -- some as young as fifteen-years-old -- changing in the dressing room of the 1991 Look of the Year contest in a way one contestant described as leaving her feeling "really uncomfortable" because there was "no need for him to be back there," but contestants were afraid to complain because they didn't want to hurt their chances of winning the contest
    Walked in on teenage girls as young as fourteen-years-old changing in the dressing room of the 1992 Look of the Year contest in a way one contestant described as him taking a "slow stroll" as he stopped and gawked at each teenager individually
    Allegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
    11/15/19
    Pardoned former Army Major Mathew Golsteyn before his trial started for the premeditated murder of an unarmed and detained Afghan man because they suspected him of being a bombmaker
    Pardoned former Army lieutenant Clint Lorance after serving only 6 years of a 19-year sentence for the war crime of ordering the shooting of two unarmed Afghanistan men
    According to news reports from credible media outlets
  • Edward AmbrosinoFmr. City Council Member [R-NY]
       
    11/15/19
    Stole more than $800,000 in legal fees owed to his law firm by transferring the money to his personal account and then didn't pay the $254,628 tax bill that would have been due had the money been acquired legally
    According to charging documents filed by federal officials
  • Donald TrumpDonald Trump45th U.S. PresidentTwitter iconFacebook iconInstagram iconTikTok iconYouTube iconTruthSocial icon162.3m
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    10/24/19
    Thrust his crotch on Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos and forcibly kissed her without consent inside a Beverly Hills Hotel suite he asked her to visit ostensibly to talk about future employment opportunities at the same time he was married to Melania
    10/21/19
    Grabbed and fondled a model’s breasts under the guise of "inspecting" her bra’s fabric backstage at a lingerie show while he was married to Marla
    10/21/19
    Placed his hands on runway model NaKina Carr in the "most inappropriate places" like her hip, buttocks or "on the boob. Every time" and would also "immediately put his mouth" her without first asking for consent or giving her a chance to move her mouth away from his while he was married to Ivana
    Allegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
  • Anthony SilvaAnthony SilvaFmr. Mayor [R-CA]
       
    10/21/19
    Embezzled $2.7 million from a local Boys and Girls Club over a four-year period and also used the organization's credit card for personal trips to the Philippines and Lake Tahoe, hotels, retail purchases and membership to dating website filipinocupid.com
    According to charging documents filed by federal officials
  • Donald TrumpDonald Trump45th U.S. PresidentTwitter iconFacebook iconInstagram iconTikTok iconYouTube iconTruthSocial icon162.3m
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    10/21/19
    Made his way down a line of models participating in an event and felt their bodies before guessing their dress size
    Firsthand account from model NaKina Carr, Confirmed by multiple unnamed eyewitnesses verified by Cosmopolitan Magazine
    10/18/19
    Allegedly paid for group sex with an adult-film star and a young looking teenager of unknown age inside a secret Times Square sex club run by the Mafia while he was married to Ivana
    Firsthand account from mobster and self-proclaimed eyewitness John Tino, Deemed credible enough for publication by authors Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy
    10/09/19
    Grabbed Mar-a-Lago resident Karen Johnson by her vagina and pulled her behind a tapestry where he kissed and fondled her without consent while knowing Melania was upstairs at the same time
    Allegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
  • Daniel RodimerDaniel RodimerFmr. U.S. Rep Candidate [R-TX]
       
    10/08/19
    "Sucker punched" a bartender in the face after he informed Rodimer that other patrons were looking up his girlfriend's skirt
    According to an exclusive report by The Associated Press
    Punched a man in the head outside a local nightclub
    Allegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets