The Ultimate Republican Scandals List

Allegedly sexually assaulted his preteen daughter who along with her siblings was granted an order of protection against him while authorities investigated the allegation further while still being married to his estranged wife

Declined to recuse himself from a Supreme Court case determining whether Donald Trump is immune from criminal charges stemming from his attempt to overturn the 2020 election despite the fact that his wife Ginni was intimately involved in the scheme to prevent Biden from becoming President

Promised to pardon his personal aide and "body man" Walt Nauta if he was convicted of lying to the FBI about his knowledge of Trump's illegal retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago if he becomes President again

Kidnapped and murdered her ex-daughter-in-law and another woman and stuffed their bodies in a freezer with the help of three other members of an anti-government group over a custody dispute involving her grandchildren

Defamed voting technology company Smartmatic with bogus claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election and later secretly settled a lawsuit the firm brought against them for an undisclosed amount in order to avoid going to trial

Stole over $132,000 from multiple political accounts to pay for vacations with his family, housing costs and personal credit card statements by siphoning money from a loosely regulated political account that prosecutors alleged he used as his own "unregulated slush fund" into his own pocket

Violently swiped at and verbally threatened a snowplow driver he blocked by standing in front of their machine

Left his loaded semiautomatic 9mm handgun behind in a public restroom of the state capitol which sat unattended for nearly 30 minutes before a janitor found it and alerted state troopers

Lied under oath in a deposition and also at trial about his role in falsely asserting that Trump's private apartment in Trump Tower was nearly three times larger than it actually was on official tax forms

Illegally purchased or retained two apparently "brand new" handguns and ammunition in violation of a judge's order to hand over all firearms he owned outside of a single shotgun he was allowed to keep for personal protection

Improperly targeted black voters with robocalls that shared fake information in an attempt to discourage them from voting in the 2020 election and later agreed to pay $1.25 million in fines after the state of New York sued him

Reportedly lied about being shot during his deployment in Afghanistan when in reality he accidentally shot himself in the arm in a federal park

Drank so much alcohol at a political dinner and gala that servers cut her off and told her she couldn't have any more because she was noticeably drunk

Illegally voted in nine elections between 2008 and 2011 while he was on probation for a prior felony conviction and ineligible to vote in Georgia while also having hypocritically spread baseless claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election and was later fined $5,000 and given a public reprimand by the judge overseeing his case

Fondled Herschel Walker campaign staffer Carlton Huffman in the crotch without his consent and unsuccessfully tried to convince him to go back to his hotel room while also being married and then paid Huffman $480,000 through an insurance policy to settle his sexual harassment lawsuit out of court

Sexually abused a 14-year-old girl who babysat his children inside his church, personal office, car and her home over three-year period during his mid-20's while also being married with young children

Illegally accessed at multiple voting machines used in the 2020 presidential election from numerous counties in Michigan by deceiving election officials into handing them over to her and her coconspirators

Grabbed a person's buttocks without their consent

Helped remove a table from a room in the Capitol that was soon after used to physically assault police officers trying to regain control during the 1/6 insurrection and later lied to federal investigators by falsely telling them she never entered the Capitol during the riot

Swerved into oncoming traffic while driving drunk and hit another car, fled the scene and was later found asleep in his car by police who reported he had noticeable signs of impairment including a strong odor of alcohol on his breath, slurred speech and bloodshot eyes and then failed field sobriety tests and had a BAC three times the legal limit of 0.25

Ordered his personal aide and "body man" Walt Nauta and Mar-a-lago manager Brian Butler to transfer up to 15 boxes of likely classified information Trump illegally had in his possession to his residence in New Jersey at the very time representatives from the DOJ were meeting with his lawyers to get back the documents he illegally retained

Digitally penetrated his 13-year-old daughter after drugging her with a sedative and removing all her clothes while she was unconscious

Sexually abused a 15-year-old minor

Possessed “hundreds of thousands" of felony images depicting child pornography on his electronic devices

Sexually tortured another man with an inanimate object and then murdered him with a hammer

Physically struck a victim and had to complete a six-week anger management course in order to have his charges dropped

Produced felony videos and images of underage and barely legal girls performing sex acts with him and used them to coerce other underage girls into sex

Punched and strangled his victim so severely it caused multiple brain bleeds resulting in his eventual death several days later

Consumed alcohol and the sleep drug Ambien with subordinates while on duty as President Obama's top physician which could have resulted in catastrophe if he were called to care for the President in an emergency

Illegally coordinated with former Michigan Senate Leader Mike Shirkey to secretly funnel Super PAC money to a fund supporting a right-wing ballot initiative and then didn't file the required campaign finance statements identifying the donors who contributed money

Physically grabbed a 14-year-old boy and threatened to rape him at a crowded high school volleyball tournament but the teen was able to escape his grasp and run to the authorities who used surveillance footage to identify and arrest him

Asked a young woman who was getting paid by his best friend Joel Greenberg to have sex with other men to join him for a weekend trip to the Florida Keys where he said there would be "2 guys, 4 girls" and insinuated sex would be involved

Had sex with a 21-year-old who was under the influence of "all kinds of controlled substances" at a drug-fueled party she was paid to attend

Stole over $59k from a local Republican committee and spent it on personal expenses including mortgage payments, wine trips, luxury candies and everyday expenses like groceries

Drove under the influence of alcohol after attending a political fundraiser at the home of Trump Senior Advisor Tony Sayegh and was arrested after he failed field sobriety tests and refused a breathalyzer test

Exposed his holstered concealed firearm to a group of students visiting the state capitol to advocate for new gun control legislation while lecturing them about his right to defend himself

Called 911 to falsely accuse the mother of his friend of kidnapping her child without any evidence in order to help his friend and the father of the child to get custody and also plotted with the father and others to stalk the mother with the intention of kidnapping his own child from her but was arrested before he had a chance to enact his plan

Was found liable to pay writer E. Jean Carroll an additional $83 million -- $65 million in punitive damages and 18.3 million in reputational and emotional damages -- after he continued to repeatedly defame her long after a previous jury awarded her $5 million in defamation damages

Stole $9,657 in proceeds from an online auction of old government-owned vehicles

Defecated on a WWE employee he coerced into a nonconsensual sexual relationship while also being married and then commanded her to give oral sex to his friend while feces were running down her head

Teamed up with a male WWE employee to physically restrain and sexually assault a female WWE employee after they shoved her into a locked room at company headquarters and mocked her pleas for them to stop by taunting that "No means yes" while also being married

Showed illicit photos and videos of a WWE employee he had a nonconsensual sexual relationship with to multiple people without her knowledge or consent

Accused AZ Republican Party Chair Jeff DeWitt of offering her a bribe on tape to drop out of the 2024 U.S. Senate race and said that he should resign instead of which he claimed her recording of their private conversation was "selectively edited" but eventually did step down

Recklessly drove 90mph on an interstate highway while under the influence of alcohol with a BAC nearly twice the legal limit and was found to be in possession of a firearm in violation of state law after police pulled him over

Settled 14 separate lawsuits brought by former employees who alleged he illegally withheld their overtime pay for an undisclosed amount

Stole a total of $728.61 worth of items from a local Target during seven visits over a 26-day period by not scanning some of the more expensive items in her cart at the self-checkout line

Routinely sexually assaulted an underage girl over a seven-year period that began when she was only 8 years old and culminated in near-daily assaults before he was caught while also being a married father of five children

Choked a 20-year-old woman during sex without her consent so forcefully that the whites of her eyes turned red and she passed out and continued having sex with her while she was unconscious and then threatened to kill her when she awoke

Remained closely tied to his namesake company which ended up raking in at least $7.8 million from 20 different foreign governments throughout his Presidency by having his sons run it instead of placing it in the hands of a neutral arbiter which violated decades of norms and traditions that were in place to prevent a President from profiting off the office

Masterminded a scheme to illegally conceal $2.1 million he earned in a three-month period for lobbying services he provided for the government of Qatar by creating an LLC with his coconspirator to hide the money from federal officials

Helped his coconspirator illegally conceal $2.1 million they earned lobbying for the government of Qatar by creating an LLC with to hide the money from tax authorities and then lied to federal officials twice after they confronted him

Pulled a woman she had previously argued with at a local bar out of her car and physically attacked her with the help of her mother and third offender

Lied to potential investors about receiving millions of dollars in secret payments from a company to promote their new video phone on his TV show by promising them his endorsement of the product was "not for any money"

Spewed homophobic and racist taunts against two police officers who pulled him over on suspicion of DUI, failed a field sobriety test, refused to take a breathalyzer and then told the officers that he planned to contact the state Attorney General and to lie that he was mistreated by them unless they let him go

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

Submitted fake certificates to Congress that falsely declared Trump won the 2020 presidential election in Nevada

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 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

Pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars from QAnon supporters who donated to his legal defense fund instead of giving them money back to them once his case was over

Secretly recorded two of his employees while they worked without their knowledge for months and later fired them without cause because he baselessly suspected they had helped the authorities with a criminal case he was under indictment for

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

Physically assaulted a 59-year-old woman after striking her car in a parking lot in an unprovoked attack which caused serious enough injuries that she had to be hospitalized

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

Failed to pay over $30k in child support and was criminally charged for his negligence

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