The Ultimate Republican Scandals List

Accepted at least $55k in cash bribes and at least one trip to Miami on a private jet from who he thought were local businessmen that wanted preferential treatment for development projects in Cincinnati, Ohio but who were in fact undercover federal agents

Unbuttoned his pants and forced his victim to manually stimulate him while high on crystal meth at a local drug house after he unsuccessfully propositioned her for sex while also being married

Illegally entered the US Capitol along with other rioters and insurrectionists who were attempting to overturn the 2020 Presidential election results

Stripped down to his underwear and grinded against another male without his consent at a fundraising event in Florida while also being married

Had group sex with a woman he and his wife Bridget Ziegler were longtime friends with after having hypocritically spent years lambasting LGBTQ rights and touting the importance of adhering to "traditional family values" in public and private life

Secretly sold up to $50,000 of Boeing shares mere days before a House committee he was on released a highly critical report about the company and then failed to disclose the sale for more than two months and only reported it after he won reelection in a race he won by a mere 333 votes

Secretly recorded him and his wife Bridget Ziegler having group sex with a woman they had a sexual relationship with

Doused his girlfriend's cat with bleach and then beat the animal to death

Chemically burned his girlfriend's cat so viciously that its tail had to be amputated, threatened to "inflict chemical burns" on responding police officers and told one detective that he'd "make him pay" if he was arrested

Armed himself with a hatchet, tactical gear, knives, stun batons and pepper spray and then marched on the US Capitol where he used a megaphone to encourage the crowd to overpower the police and break into the building

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 department

Illegally entered the US Capitol along with other rioters and insurrectionists who were attempting to overturn the 2020 Presidential election results

Charged fellow US Rep. Mas Miller's credit card for political donations that "exceeded FEC limits" without his knowledge or consent

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"

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 terms

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 participate

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 to

Illegally delayed certifying the results of his county's 2022 midterm election by citing baseless allegations of supposed voter fraud

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 on her forearm

Shared nude images of his ex-girlfriend to eight men using a fake Instagram account under her name so that he could creepily "catfish" them by pretending to be her and sharing intimate details of her life

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-law

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 culture

Showed pictures of a female subordinate’s cleavage to other staff in his office without her knowledge or consent

Allegedly elbowed fellow GOP Rep. Tim Burchett in his kidney while he was speaking with a reporter, escalating the long-simmering feud between the two which kicked into overdrive after Burchett publicly criticized McCarthy's leadership and voted to oust him from his post as Speaker of the House

Possessed felony media involving children which resulted in his arrest by local authorities

Punched a senior citizen he had been harassing for months so forcefully that they briefly lost consciousness

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 married

Slandered a medical doctor during a TV interview in violation of two state rules and regulations governing how lawyers should conduct themselves and was publicly reprimanded by the Indiana Supreme Court for his behavior

Downloaded felony images depicting children being sexually abused and tried to conceal his identity by using fake online personas

Forged his ex-wife’s name on multiple home refinancing documents and a deed and also forged his colleague's signature on a financial statement he submitted to a court overseeing his divorce proceedings in an act so egregious the judge sentencing him called his actions "malfeasance that almost defies description"

Stole $267,80 from a political Super PAC whose finances he oversaw as its Treasurer

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 surveillance

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 legislators

Conspired to overturn the 2020 Presidential election results in Georgia with 16 Republicans to falsely certify Trump won the state and declare themselves the “duly elected and qualified” electors

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 it

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 theories

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 attempt

Pushed through a line of Capitol police officers who were trying to prevent protestors from rushing the Capitol building and supported a fellow insurrectionist while they tried to pull a metal bike rack onto the scaffolding they were standing on

Secretly recorded two of his live-in girlfriend’s teenage children getting undressed via hidden camera he set up at their home

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 in

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 Presidency

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

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 money

Gave a highly classified binder of FBI documents relating to the 2016 Trump-Russia investigation to two sympathetic right-wing media personalities for propaganda purposes

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 years

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 identity

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 judge

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 insurrection

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 outing

Illegally 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 firm

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 Trump

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 2019

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 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

Had a multiyear extramarital affair with North Dakota Governer Kristi Noem while also being married with children

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 persona

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 project

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 theater

Was sued for sexual harassment for making unwanted sexual advances on a male legislative aide and male legislative intern

Accepted over $150,000 in cash and gifts including premium NY Mets season tickets, a discounted beachfront apartment, custom-made 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 they had

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 associates

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 it

Organized and directed Proud Boys members acting as what federal prosecutors characterized as "Donald Trump's army" to prevent the certification of Biden's election and instructed the insurrectionists who had already breached the US Capitol building to "do what must be done" to keep Trump in power

Solicited a sexual encounter with 13-year-old girl over the internet and drove to meet her in a local park only to get arrested by police who posed as the young girl

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 things

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 lives

Inappropriately touched a colleague's employee without their consent during a CPAC event in Palm Beach, Florida

Unsuccessfully tried to kiss a male CPAC employee without his consent during an alcohol-fueled work event while being married

Opened a baseless investigation into Georgia prosecutor who Fanni Willis who filed criminal charges against Donald Trump and 18 others presumably to deflect attention away from the many crimes Trump committed

Struck his son, choked his son's boyfriend and threatened them with a gun as they sat in a parked car outside his home

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 exhibiting

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 them

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 Force

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 evaluations

Impersonated a top aide to then Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in fundraising emails that tricked more than a dozen donors into giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to George Santos's political campaign and received a 15% commission on each contribution

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 it

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 him

Threatened to “put a bullet” in the back of the head of a police officer who was dating his ex-wife after texting her a litany of belligerent messages threatening to take her to court over custody of their child

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 page

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 minor

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 bathtub

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"

Brazenly and publicly refused a judge's order to appear in court and face the defamation charges brought against him by a local hospital

Illegally transferred $91,000 from his campaign fund and a nonprofit organization to a PAC supporting his candidacy to help his failed 2016 bid for US Congress and then hid the transactions from the FEC

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 night

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 argument

Strangled his wife's neck while their infant daughter slept next to her after he drank himself into a "fiery rage" on Mother's Day

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 favorable

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 him

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 them

Led a group that illegally seized five voting machines used in the 2020 election and performed unsanctioned experiments on the equipment which election security experts warn compromised the machines and could have altered the votes cast on them

Falsely attacked pages as not being respectful of the history and grandeur of the US Capitol around midnight after hosting a party in his office during which he presumably consumed too much alcohol

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 possession

Was found liable for $52.5 million in damages for defaming a local hospital system and inciting a mob to protest outside its building and then fled to another state in a desperate attempt to avoid paying his victims the money

Engaged in "sexual contact" with a child under the age of ten

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"

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 wife

Choked, pushed his partner down a flight of stairs and physically abused her multiple times throughout the course of their six-year relationship

Hysterically waved his loaded gun all around and also directly at his partner during a fit of rage and then she said he "laid his 300-pound self" on top of her and tried to "force" her to shoot him while she tried to escape his grasp

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 attending