The Ultimate Republican Scandals List
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Displaying 101 - 150 of 1073 Scandals
Sorted by When News Broke
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Elon MuskMedia Executive
8/21/23
Consumed ketamine -- a drug leading researchers say can lead people to feeling "grandiose and like you have special powers" -- far more often than recommended which led close associates to worry that it contributed to erratic behavior he was exhibitingAccording to an exclusive report by The new Yorker
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8/18/23
Lied about receiving degrees from North Carolina Central University, Duke University Divinity School and Hood Theological Seminary when in fact he didn't receive a degree from any of themAccording to an exclusive report by The New York Times
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Laura ViarState Judge [R-KS]
8/17/23
Ran off the road and crashed into a school building while driving under the influence of alcohol and on a suspended license and refused to take a breathalyzer when police arrived while also being a member of her local county's Anti-Drug Task ForceAccording to charging documents filed by local police
8/16/23
Drove under the influence of alcohol and was arrested by police after getting pulled over and later had her diversion agreement extended by six months because she failed to undergo mandatory drug and alcohol evaluationsAccording to an exclusive report by the Wichita Eagle
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Sam MieleGeorge Santos Political Aide
8/16/23
Impersonated a top aide to then Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in fundraising emails that tricked more than a dozen donors into giving money to George Santos's political campaign and received a 15% commission on each contributionAccording to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Harry SidhuFmr. Mayor [R-CA]20 Years in GOP
Lying to the "Feds", Egregious Conflict of Interest, Misuse of Government Resources for Political Gain8/16/23
Took advantage of his position as mayor to muscle himself onto a negotiating team involved with a $320 million MLB stadium project and later shared confidential information with the owner of the team with the expectation of getting "at least" a million-dollar political donation in return and then lied to federal agents when they questioned him about itAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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8/15/23
Was wrestled to the ground and handcuffed by police officers after refusing repeating commands to not interfere with emergency responders helping a 15-year-old girl experiencing seizures during which he screamed one was a "f*cking full-on d*ck!" who "better recalculate, motherf*cker!" while also hypocritically promising he will "ALWAYS stand by our country's police officers" which apparently only applies when it is politically convenient for himAccording to bodycam footage released by local police
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Rene PedrosaFmr. Spokesperson [R]Top aide to Republican Mayor of Miami
8/14/23
Cupped a 16-year-old boy's buttocks and kissed him on the lips before grabbing his hand and placing it on his erect penis while meeting with him in his government office ostensibly to discuss having him help design a web page8/14/23
Texted a 16-year-old boy that he's "dying to sleep with" him and let the boy know he was home alone if he wanted to come by, which the boy declined and reminded him that he was a minor8/14/23
Asked a 16-year-old boy to send him sexually explicit pictures of himself in the shower and in return sent the boy a picture of his exposed penis from inside his bathtubAccording to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President
162.3m
8/14/23
Brazenly called for the former Lt. Governor of Georgia to refuse to testify before a grand jury criminally investigating him for trying to overturn the 2020 election results in the state which multiple legal experts characterized as "witness tampering in real time"According to a Truth Social post written by Trump and reported by mainstream outlets
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8/12/23
Was held in contempt and arrested for brazenly and publicly refusing to comply with an order to appear in court to face defamation charges brought against him by a local hospitalAccording to charging documents filed by local police
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Brian KelseyFmr. State Senator [R-TN]
8/11/23
Illegally transferred $91,000 from his political campaign and a nonprofit organization to an authorized federal campaign committee supporting his candidacy using money not subject to reporting regulations to help his 2016 bid for US Congress and then hid the transactions from the FECAccording to charging documents filed by federal officials
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8/10/23
Groped two young women's breasts, crotches and other parts of their bodies without consent and continued to assault them even after they told him to stop after he cornered them inside his booth at an Arizona night club where an employee reported he had spent "like fifty grand" on drinks that nightAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Tom GarrettFmr. U.S. Representative [R-VA]12 Years in GOP
8/09/23
Struck his wife in the head on two separate occasions, had a "history" of physically pinning her to the ground and once punched multiple holes in the wall during an argumentAccording to a lawsuit filed by his estranged wife
8/09/23
Strangled his wife's neck while their infant daughter slept next to her after he drank himself into a "fiery rage" on Mother's DayAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Clarence ThomasSupreme Court Justice [R]
8/05/23
Violated ethics laws by financing a $267,230 recreational vehicle he couldn't otherwise afford due to debt through a wealthy health care executive of which both parties refused to disclose the terms of the loan presumably because they would appear to be overly favorableAccording to an exclusive report by The New York Times
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Ed MullinsFmr. NYPD Union President
8/03/23
Stole roughly $1 million from a NYC police officers union by filing falsified expense reports for personal items including lavish meals and luxury clothing and over-inflating the amount he should be reimbursed for countless other expenses for over four years to such a degree that prosecutors described it as a "personal piggy bank" and then lied to federal officials when they confronted himAccording to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Matt DePernoFmr. Attorney General Nominee [R-MI]
8/01/23
Organized a group to illegally seize voting machines used in the 2020 election and perform "tests" on the equipment which election security experts warn compromised the machines and could have altered the votes cast on themAccording to charging documents filed by state officials
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Daire RendonFmr. State Representative [R-MI]
8/01/23
Organized a group to illegally seize voting machines used in the 2020 election and perform "tests" on the equipment which election security experts warn compromised the machines and could have altered the votes cast on themAccording to charging documents filed by state officials
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7/28/23
Held an alcohol fueled party in his Congressional office and then drunkenly unloaded on teenage Senate pages by calling them "little sh*ts" and "jack*sses" for not being respectful of the history and grandeur of the US Capitol and told them to "get the f*ck out of" the Capitol rotunda when he came cross them taking pictures following a long day of helping assist US SenatorsAccording to a photograph of his office that showed copious amounts of alcohol on a nearby table
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President
162.3m
7/27/23
Ordered 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 possessionAccording to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith
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7/24/23
Was found liable for $52.5 million in damages for defaming a local hospital system and inciting a mob to protest outside its buildingAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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Cole WagnerAlliance for a Pro-Life Alabama Chair
7/24/23
According to charging documents filed by local officials first reported by the Alabama Political Reporter
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14.8mMAGA Enthusiast
7/20/23
Texted multiple pictures of his exposed penis and other sexually graphic images to a former employee who described his behavior as "super creepy" and "groomer-ish"According to screenshots of the texts shared by the victim with Mediate -
22.2mLauded by Trump
7/12/23
Baselessly accused a Trump supporter on the Capitol grounds during 1/6 of being a covert government agent who was "the central figure" in inciting the insurrection which led to him receiving numerous death threats and being forced to sell his home and business and relocate to a secluded place to protect himself and his wifeAccording to a lawsuit filed by the alleged victim
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James ChapmanCommissioner [R-MI]
7/09/23
Kicked a fellow state GOP official Mark DeYoung in the groin and then grabbed him by the legs and knocked him to the ground as soon as DeYoung opened the door to a reportedly "closed" meeting Chapman didn't want him attendingAccording to a report filed by local police
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7/07/23
Groped and tried to kiss his male legislative intern while being driven home from an alcohol-fueled event at a local bar and then unsuccessfully tried to convince him to come up to his hotel room to have sex while also being married7/07/23
Told his male legislative aide "I want all of that butt" and then slapped it while they were standing in the back of an elementary school classroom full of children during a Career Day event while also being marriedAccording to a civil lawsuit filed by the alleged victim
7/07/23
Routinely talked about homosexual sex with two male staffers, pushed for one of them to "explore his sexuality by having sex with men" and showed both a picture of a naked man he had saved on his phoneAccording to a civil lawsuit filed by the alleged victims
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President
162.3m
7/07/23
Pushed the IRS to open investigations on FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page in violation of a federal law that prohibits a President from "directly or indirectly" ordering the IRS to investigate or audit individual peopleAccording to a sworn statement by former White House chief of staff John Kelly
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6/30/23
Agreed to pay former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg $12 million to settle a lawsuit she filed against them which accused the network of pressuring her to commit perjury in a legal deposition and of operating a hostile and discriminatory work environmentAccording to court records first reported by The New York Times
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Scott JenkinsSheriff [R-VA]
6/29/23
Accepted cash bribes totaling $72,500 to circumvent concealed carry gun laws by giving people fake deputy credentials that allowed them to carry a concealed weapon in any state without a permitAccording to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Larry HouseholderFmr. House Speaker [R-OH]
6/29/23
Masterminded a bribery scheme that saw him illegally raking in a whopping $60 million from a state nuclear energy company that in turn was given a $1.3 billion taxpayer bailout for two struggling nuclear power plants it operatedAllegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Dan KirbyFmr. State Representative [R-OK]
6/28/23
Swerved off the road and crashed his motorcycle killing his girlfriend who was riding with him while under the influence of alcohol and a cocktail of illicit and unprescribed pharmaceutical drugs including amphetamine, tramadol and oxycodoneAccording to charging documents filed by local police
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Owen ShroyerInfoWars Host
6/23/23
Marched with the mob that broke through police barricades at the US Capitol on 1/6 and used a megaphone to yell seditious phrases including "death to tyranny, death to tyrants" and repeatedly chanted "1776"According to charging documents filed by federal officials
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6/22/23
Declined to recuse himself from an investigation into an addiction recovery center he accepted a $6,900 donation from when in a prior case he forced a judge to recuse themself for accepting a donation of only $250According to an investigative report by The Daily Beast
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Shawn WilmothSignature Masters Inc Executive
6/22/23
Forged thousands of fake signatures over hundreds of petitions his third-party company conducted that the State AG charged were full of “obvious fraud” and done in such a “sophomoric” way that he misspelled people's names and cities and had signatures of people who were dead or had moved and then submitted them to candidates who contracted his services and proceeded to inadvertently submit the fraudulent petition signatures to election officialsAccording to charging documents filed by state officials
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Samuel AlitoSupreme Court Justice [R]
6/20/23
Traveled free of charge on an opulent private jet chartered by billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer to an exclusive Alaskan fishing resort without reporting it on his financial disclosure forms and later voted with the majority in Singer's favor on a case involving his businessAccording to an exclusive investigative report by Pro Publica
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6/20/23
Personally lobbied to connect a business executive with prior criminal convictions for theft and fraud with the state comptroller overseeing a multimillion-dollar initiative meant to combat opioid overdoses despite him not having had any experience working on statewide public health initiativesAccording to an exclusive investigative report by Pro Publica and The Texas Tribune
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6/19/23
Was sued for $200k by a husband who claimed he used his position to persuade his wife, who was a mid-level state government employee, to engage in a yearslong affair that included instances of group sex and led to the eventual destruction of the couple's marriageAccording to a $200,000 civil lawsuit filed by former Republican candidate Scott Lassiter
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Tim SheehyU.S. Senator Candidate [R-MT]
6/16/23
Killed his copilot and pinned a teenage girl against a wall after losing power midair and crashing the plane he was flying into a residential home which authorities later concluded happened in part due to his negligent flyingAccording to a civil lawsuit filed by the victim's family
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6/13/23
Illegally transferred $82.5 million from his state political action committee to a super PAC supporting his Presidential bid in violation of a federal campaign finance law that prohibits candidates from spending money that was obtained by people and groups not subject to strict federal requirementsAccording to allegations detailed in a complaint filed by The Campaign Legal Center
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Kevin Sabella Sr.City Council Member Candidate [R-NY]
6/13/23
Repeatedly stands naked behind his screen door at the front of his house without regard to his neighbors or passersby who can't "un-see" his lewd behaviorAccording to numerous complaints of his behavior reported on by local media
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Alex SteinBlaze Media Host
6/12/23
Accosted WNBA star Brittney Griner at a Dallas airport and then forcefully pushed a WNBA security official who intervened to prevent him from reaching herAccording to a police report filed by local officials
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Nate PaulConservative Businessman [R]
6/09/23
Lied to financial institutions on multiple loan applications by vastly overstating his assets -- by nearly $18 million on just one application alone -- and grossly underreporting his liabilities by millions of dollars which led to him being approved for loans totaling $172 million that he otherwise wouldn't have been grantedAccording to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Donald Trump45th U.S. President
162.3m
6/09/23
Showed 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 clubAccording to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith
Showed 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 clubAccording 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"
6/09/23
Pressured his personal attorney Evan Corcoran to lie to investigators about classified documents illegally in his possession and further asked, "what happens if we just don't respond at all or don't play ball with them"According to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith