Republicans Harassment Criminal Scandals

Attempted to extort a congressional candidate by threatening to release a potentially damaging secret recording he had of him unless he pressured a woman Johnson was having an affair with to deny its existence and then removed evidence from his office while officers were executing a search warrant against him

Lit a fire with the intent of criminally intimidating counter-protesters who were challenging him and his racist companions at the 2017 "Unite the Right Rally"

Brandished his assault rifle and drunkenly threatened multiple people admiring Christmas lights in his neighborhood which "terrified" his three children and wife so much they all hid in the bathroom while she spoke with 911 for 23 mins to let them know he was a "severe alcoholic" and that she was concerned he was going to shoot someone

Installed GPS tracking devices on his ex-fiancée's cell phone and on the undercarriage of her car to monitor her movements

Called 911 over two dozen times one day and 14 times a week later and then told an officer who warned him to stop tying up emergency resources that he had “50 pounds of black powder and a cannon" and was ready to "take care of business” and threatened to fire on the officers who showed up to his home if they attempted to enter

Threatened to kill at least five of his colleagues including the state speaker of the house over a number of intimidating emails and texts where he warned that an angel had given him a "vision to destroy" all of them

Threatened a county judge over a series of profanity-laced voicemails

Belligerently screamed and yelled inside a local polling station and ignored repeated police commands to stop after which he was arrested

Illegally contacted a victim who had a protective order against him and was arrested by police after they determined he violated the order

Attempted to extort a founder of investment firm Point Bridge Capital by threatening to use government connections (which did not exist) to retaliate against defense and intelligence companies strongly dependent on government contracts

Threatened to kill his primary opponent and eventual winner Anna Luna by calling up his "Russian-Ukrainian hit squad" to take her out

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

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

Wrote two threatening emails in all caps to a fellow student that warned he had just put a bullet inside his shotgun with the student's "NAME ON IT" and told him that he "BETTER WATCH OUT!!" if he didn't want trouble

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

Accosted WNBA star Brittney Griner at a Dallas airport and then forcefully pushed a WNBA security official who intervened to prevent him from reaching her

Called and threatened "several" Texas State Reps with "political consequences" if they voted to impeach him for corruption

Threatened to execute Rep. Eric Swalwell or send him to Guantanamo Bay in a threatening private message he sent the Congressman on Twitter

Demanded his staffer Noelle Dunphy to work "naked, in a bikini, or in short shorts with an American flag on them" that he purchased for her to wear when she was in the office and also when she worked from home remotely

Demanded his staffer Noelle Dunphy undress for him during almost all of their videoconferences during which he often pleasured himself under a bed sheet

Exposed his penis to a male staff member seemingly out of the blue while they were filming a video in a screening room

Physically assaulted his estranged wife resulting in charges and a restraining order against him, which he promptly violated by going to her home, injuring her and damaging her property

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

Instigated a fight with two innocent people he falsely accused of selling drugs and was charged with harassment after a police investigation determined he was at fault

Raped a 14-year-old girl twice at gunpoint after luring her into his truck, threatened to "blow her brains out" if she ever told anyone, conspired with friends who were former police officers to send a torrent of threatening messages to scare her from reporting it to the authorities and continued to stalk her even after being charged with raping her

Threatened to kill a woman he was romantically involved with by throwing her off a cliff or slitting her throat if she ever told anyone about their relationship

Frequently called to “harass, annoy and terrify” the paster of a Baptist church, posted a number of social media threats against him and also made a number of salacious sexualized comments about the pastor's wife

Put his face inches away from a woman's breasts and asked where she got them from before trying to unhook her bra strap during a meet and greet at a horror film convention

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

Called the local police department to warn that he "may shoot" police officers if they attempted to enter his home and arrest a wanted man he was harboring

Threatened to release unspecified "false information" about a county sheriff and local police chief if they didn't grant him immunity in an unrelated case

Forcibly pinned his date to the ground and tried to rip her clothing off while ignoring her demand that he let her go and then admitted that he had "gone too far" with her in a subsequent phone call

Persistently peppered his mother-in-law and various other family members with "many horrible" emails and texts that tried to strongarm them into giving him hundreds of thousands of dollars over a six-month period

Violently threw numerous household items in his wife's direction while in a drunken rage which his wife told police had become a frequent occurrence and later threatened to assault police if they tested him for COVID-19 without his consent

Punched and choked his ex-girlfriend so violently during what began as consensual sex that she suffered bloody eyes and bruises throughout her face and then sent her multiple texts threatening to kill her if he ever saw her again

Pointed a loaded gun against his ex-wife's head and threatened to kill her and her new boyfriend, after which she got a restraining order issued against him

Led police on a high-speed chase going upwards of 90 miles per hour while driving the wrong direction on an interstate highway around 1am and only stopped after he drove over tire-deflating spikes, threatened to physically "take" on arresting officers, slurred his speech so badly that police had a hard time understanding him and forced officials to get a warrant to conduct a BAC test which was still over twice the legal limit three hours after his arrest

Left threatening messages and sent a private investigator to scare a woman he had recently sexually coerced to make sure she kept her "mouth closed" or else he would sue her

Lurked outside his ex-girlfriends home late at night and texted her "b*tch, I came to see you" from a blocked number in violation of a five-year restraining order she received against him earlier in the year and was apprehended by police when they responded to her 911 call

Repeatedly spied on his estranged wife from the bushes outside her apartment window while pleasuring himself which also violated a restraining order against him that she was granted

Posted nude images of his wife on the internet without her consent in retaliation for a restraining order she filed against him for domestic violence

Screamed "f*ck you!" to multiple library staff so loudly that he could be heard in the children's area on the other side of the building then refused a police officer's order to leave after staff called them for assistance resulting in him being banned from city libraries for one month

Brandished his gun and threatened to kill his then-girlfriend state rep Tarah Toohil and himself, threatened to kill them both by taking the car they were in up to 100 mph and crashing it and stalked her so incessantly that a judge granted her a restraining order

Rubbed his exposed genitals in front of a female employee and another time also asked her, "when are you going to come into my office and f*ck me?" while also being married

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

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

Attached an electronic tracking device on his ex-wife's car on Valentine's Day to monitor her movements

Physically threatened his ex-fiancé after finding her by tracking her location on the "Find My iPhone" App installed on her phone which prompted a judge to issue a restraining order against him

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

Coerced an 18-year-old young woman who was only 16 when they first met and 30 years younger than him into a monthslong sexual relationship where she was compelled to participate in bondage fetishes of his that included using ropes, clamps, chains and sex toys that she did not willingly consent to and then threatened her with "a world of hurt" if she ever rebuffed his incessant advances

Trailed and harassed Democratic state rep Karlee Macer at least six times and sent a number of threatening emails and calls to her personal cellphone over a six-month period including one time when he approached her at the tax services center he worked at to let her know he "knew everything" about her

Coerced an assistant who was decades younger than him into having sex over a yearslong period by threatening to withhold her paycheck if she ever refused his advances, subjected her to a "steady stream of racially and sexually offensive comments" and fired her when she eventually stood up to him while also being married

Inundated his ex-girlfriend with so many calls, texts and emails after they broke up that she compiled them all into a three-ring binder and reported him to the police and continued to harass her even after a detective visited him and told him to stop contacting her

Strongarmed leaders of a copper mining company into purchasing a large tract of land from a business associate who owed him money in exchange for him sponsoring legislation that would be favorable to the company, even once explicitly telling those involved "no Sandlin Property, no bill" and then failed to pay taxes on the $733,000 he received from the sale once the deal went through

Illegally contacted an underage victim he sexual assaulted mere months after his release from prison which violated the terms of his parole resulting in him being sent back to prison for an additional three months

Locked a female staffer in his office and unsuccessfully tried to get her to have sex with him while also being married with two children

Threatened to beat and sexually assault a man who was dating his estranged wife along with his mother over several menacing calls