Republicans Covering Up Misconduct by Republicans
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819kMAGA Enthusiast11/30/23Covered 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 termsAccording to a civil lawsuit filed by the alleged victim
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1.1mLauded by Trump6/08/23Removed more than a thousand pages of classified documents from the White House on Trump's orders and was seen putting them in the trunk of his car late at night on the final evening of his presidencyAccording to three former top aides to Meadows reported on by Murray Waas in an exclusive report published on Substack
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Dan SnyderNFL OwnerDonated $1.1m to Trump's 1st inaugural11/10/22Personally fired two Washington Commanders cheerleaders after they accused an NFL player of sexual misconduct and falsely blamed the incident on the victims instead of the player responsibleAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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10/03/22Kept secret credible sexual assault allegations against the Republican Secretary of State for over a month ostensibly to protect himAccording to an exclusive report by The Statehouse File
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Merrill NelsonFmr. State Representative9/08/22Convinced a Mormon bishop to keep allegations of child sexual abuse by a member of his church against his daughters secret under false pretenses that he could be sued if he did even though state law in Arizona -- where the alleged abuse took place -- specifically protects people who report child abuse, which allowed the abuse to continue for a number of yearsAccording to court records reported by mainstream outlets
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Aileen CannonFederal Judge [R]9/05/22Issued an egregiously bad ruling that helped protect Donald Trump by hamstringing the FBI's ability to reclaim classified government documents he illegally took with him to Mar-a-Lago by appointing a "special master" to review the documents before they could examine them further which was later overturned unanimously by one of the most conservative appeals courts in the countryAccording to a ruling in Trump's favor handed down by Judge Cannon
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7/10/22Secretly paid over $12 million to four women to keep them from going public with their allegations of sexual misconduct and demanded that each of them signs a nondisclosure agreement to ensure their accusations never saw the light of dayAccording to news reports from credible media outlets
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Dan SnyderNFL OwnerDonated $1.1m to Trump's 1st inaugural6/21/22Secretly paid $1.6 million to a female Washington Commanders employee who accused him of sexual assault in order to keep her from going public with her allegationsAccording to allegations made by the alleged victim first reported by The Washington Post
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1.1mLauded by Trump5/26/22Unlawfully destroyed official documents in burn bags -- to the point that his wife complained to top Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson that "all of his suits smell like a bonfire" -- and flushed others down the toilet in violation of a federal law that mandates all of a President's records must be sent to the National Archives presumably to cover up some sort of misconductAccording to testimony given by one of his top aides to the January 6th select committee
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6.5mLauded by Trump7/13/21Routinely accosted Fox News producer Andrea Mackris with graphic sexual conversations he initiated during all hours of the night and during work functions, unsuccessfully solicited her and a friend of hers to have group sex and tried to persuade her to have phone sex with him all after totally ignoring her repeated demands that he stop and later paid her $9 million to resolve a sexual harassment lawsuit she brought against him all while being marriedAccording to a settlement agreement reached between O'Reilly and his accuser
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10/01/20Sexually harassed an assistant of hers so incessantly that she eventually filed a 42-page complaint against Fox News which resulted in them paying her a secret multimillion-dollar settlementAccording to an exclusive report by The New Yorker
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7/03/18Ignored repeated accusations of sexual molestation by a team physician for a college wrestling team he coached and even told one student athlete that he wanted "nothing to do with this" after they told him about the alleged abuseAccording to six former student-athletes he coached and first reported by NBC News
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Steve WynnFmr. Wynn Resorts CEODonated 14.4m to Republican causes in 20201/27/18Coerced a manicurist who worked at one of his hotels to remove her clothing and have sex with him while also being married and later secretly paid her $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit she filed against himAccording to an exclusive report by The wall Street Journal
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Pat MeehanFmr. U.S. Representative45 Years in GOP1/20/18Propositioned an aide who was decades younger than him to become romantically involved and then made her life in the office so miserable after she rebuffed his advances that she quit and sued him for sexual harassment, which resulted in him secretly spending thousands of taxpayer dollars to settle while also being marriedConfirmed by a total of 7 office employees and acquaintances in an exclusive report by The New York Times
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1/10/18Sexually harassed a female producer and then secretly worked with Fox News to privately settle her complaint with a deal that allowed her to extend her stay in the U.S. since she wasn't an American citizenAccording to interviews with former colleagues at Fox News and reported by NPR
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Roger AilesFmr. Fox News CEO12/20/17Solicited Fox News contributor Julie Roginsky for sex during private meetings while also being married and then retaliated against her after she rebuffed his advances by denying her a promotion to host her own show and drastically reduced her on-air appearances which resulted in him and Fox News secretly paying her an undisclosed amount of money to settle a lawsuit she filed against himAiles and Fox News secretly paid her to keep quiet
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Blake FarentholdFmr. U.S. RepresentativeTea Party Enthusiast12/04/17Openly talked with a male aide about "sexual fantasies" and "wet dreams" he had about his female communications director Lauren Greene and fired her after shortly after she filed a formal complaint and then secretly paid her $84,000 in taxpayer funds from a secretive "Office of Compliance" account after she agreed to drop a federal lawsuit she filed against him12/04/17Settled a sexual harassment lawsuit with a confidentiality agreement for $84,000 using a secret taxpayer funded account which kept it from the public for yearsAccording to an exclusive report by Politico
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11/18/17Knew that GOP candidate Wes Goodman unzipped and fondled an 18-year-olds crotch in a hotel room without his consent and could have intervened after the boys stepfather wrote to him about the incident, but concealed the abuse because the lawmaker was in a tight state congressional campaign that he went on to winAccording to an exclusive report by The Washington Post
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6.5mLauded by Trump10/21/17Coerced Fox News legal analyst Lis Wiehl into a "non-consensual sexual relationship" while also being married himself and later secretly agreed to pay her $32 million to resolve a sexual harassment lawsuit she brought against himAccording to a settlement agreement reached between O'Reilly and his accuser4/06/17Sexually harassed Fox Business host Rebecca Diamond in such a manner that she decided to record him to have proof of his behavior which led to him and Fox News secretly paying her an undisclosed amount in order to keep her from going public with her recordingsCaught on tape, O'Reilly and Fox News secretly paid her to keep quietIncessantly tried and failed to convince Fox News host Juliet Huddy to have a sexual relationship with him over repeated phone calls during which she reported it sometimes sounded like he was masturbating and in person (he once answered the door to his hotel room in his boxer shorts after he asked her to return a room key he supposedly needed) and then had Fox News secretly pay her a high six-figure nondisclosure agreement to keep her from going public with her accusationsFox News secretly settled Huddy's lawsuit
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Dan KirbyFmr. State Representative12/23/16Secretly paid $44,500 in taxpayer money to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by his former assistant that he fired after she complained about his behaviorAccording to reports by local and state media
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Roger AilesFmr. Fox News CEO7/06/16Solicited anchor Gretchen Carlson for sexual favors while also being married and then punished her professionally after she refused his advances in a manner so egregious that Fox News settled a lawsuit she filed for $20 million dollarsAccording to the details of a civil settlement and public apology Fox News gave Ms. Carlson
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Dennis HastertFmr. Speaker of the House6/01/15Illegally structured hush money payments of $1.7 million to elude federal bank reporting requirements in order to hide the fact he was paying the victim of his past sex crimes and then lied to Federal investigators about itHe pled guilty and was sentenced to 15 months in prison, two years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine
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Kevin GarnFmr. State Representative35 Years in GOP3/12/10Got naked with a 15-year-old girl in a hot tub when he was in his late twenties and later paid her $150,000 to keep quiet when he ran for US CongressAccording to the woman who went to the media to tell her story and confirmed by Garn