Republicans Abusing Power to Target Others

Displaying 9 Scandals
Sorted by When News Broke
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TX Attorney General Ken Paxton [R]Called and threatened "several" Texas State Reps with "political consequences" if they voted to impeach him for corruption
27 May 2023
According to a speech delivered by Rep. Green in the Texas State House
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TX Attorney General Ken Paxton [R]Retaliated against four staffers who reported his alleged corruption to the FBI by maligning them as "rogue employees" and fired or forced them out through other means then spent $3.3 million in taxpayer dollars to settle a wrongful termination lawsuit that also forced him to apologize for disparaging them
10 Feb 2023
According to a settlement agreement reached between Paxton and the fired staffers
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State's Attorney Matthew Leveridge [R-KY]Impregnated a criminal defendant his office prosecuted sometime during their two-month affair and then rescinded her pretrial diversion agreement presumably out of payback for telling his wife about the affair and baby
03 Aug 2022
According to a report by The Daily Beast
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Rep. William Timmons [R-SC]Used his influence as a US Rep. to convince a judge to order the arrest and jailing of the husband of a woman he was having an extramarital affair with on bogus kidnapping charges so he could continue seeing her unabated
19 Jul 2022
According to an exclusive report by the Charleston Post and Courier
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Rep. Joe Barton [R-TX]Sent pictures of himself masturbating to three women -- two whom he had an extramarital affair with -- and threatened to sic the Capitol Police on one of the women he was involved with if she went public with his naked pictures
22 Nov 2017
According to a recorded phone call between Barton and one woman he had an affair with exclusively reported by The Washington Post
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State Sen. Jack Latvala [R-FL]Routinely grabbed five female senate staff and lobbyists buttocks, breasts, and other parts of their bodies and threatened to retaliate against them by refusing to take meetings with them if they complained about his behavior while also being married
03 Nov 2017
According to an investigative report by Politico
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Directed three top White House officials to repeatedly call and threaten Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski that a negative article about their private lives would be published in the National Enquirer unless they call him and personally apologize for their negative coverage of him
30 Jun 2017
According to both the anchors who reported Trump's actions in the Washington Post
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Justice of the Peace Russ Casey [R-TX]Locked the door and exposed his penis to a subordinate cornered in her office and slammed the door back shut when she tried to flee then threatened that she better think twice before reporting him because he's the only person standing between her and the unemployment line
16 May 2017
According to a federal civil lawsuit filed by the alleged victim
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Gov. Robert Bentley [R-AL]Told his wife's chief of staff Heather Hannah that she better "watch herself" after he found out she helped his wife secretly record intimate conversations with a woman he was having an affair with
10 Apr 2017
According to an investigative report by AL.com