Republican Rape (100 instances)
1: Donald Trump
972: Tristan Tate

Tristan Tate, along with his more well-known brother Andrew Tate, is a kickboxer turned social media influencer who pushes rightwing extremism. A dual citizen of the United Kingdom and the United States. He has been indicted with his brother for rape and sex trafficking and is currently in prison in Romania. It is believed that the two of them moved to Romania because thought they could get away with their criminality. After being denied bail several times, they remain in Romania but on house arrest.
966: Mark Aaron Griffin

Mark Aaron Griffin was a Messianic Rabbi in Saginaw, Texas. Messianic Judaism is a syncretic form of evangelical Christianity that incorporates some elements of Judaism. The call themselves Jews, but that is not accepted by mainstream Jews. After he was charged with sexual assault, the Texas school board that banned Anne Frank book invited him to open their meeting with prayer.
He was charged with abusing his influence as a “rabbi” to pressure a woman into consensual and nonconsensual sex. He told her she was God’s gift to him and that she would be his “second wife.” When she told him no, he assaulted her.
He reached a plea deal, pleading guilty to indecent assault and was given two years deferred adjudication which means after two years, if he doesn’t offend again, he will have no conviction on his record. He and his lawyers are claiming he was vindicated by this plea deal.
960: George Alexander Diaz Menges

George Alexander Diaz Menges was a campaign worker for Manual Asensio, who dropped out just before the for Congressional District Three Republican primary. He was arrested in December 2022 and charged with four counts of sexual battery, two counts of aggravated battery, eight counts of battery and a charge of committing or facilitating a kidnapping.
943: Aaron Duane Shipman

Aaron Duane Shipman was the pastor of Bible Baptist Church in Odessa, Texas. In January, 2022, he was arrested for sexual assault of a minor. On January 17th, 2022, an eighteen-year-old woman went to police to report that she had been raped the night before by her pastor, who had been sexually assaulting her repeatedly since she was sixteen. They did a rape exam and found evidence of sexual trauma. He was arrested on the 20th.
909: Kyle Broussard

Kyle Broussard is a member of Patriot Prayer. He was convicted of rape in 2021, but in March 2023, that conviction was reversed because the trial court excluded his roommate’s testimony that he was usually home, though uncertain if he was home the night of the alleged rape. That he was usually home implies that Broussard wasn’t likely planning in advance to get the woman alone and rape her. Will the state retry the case?
908: Robert Lee West

Robert Lee West is a member of Patriot Prayer. He ran into trouble in Portland by doxxing police and city officials, filming their homes, and even threatening to film their children. West is a convicted sex offender. In 1984, he was convicted of assault with intent to commit rape, sodomy, or oral copulation. He was sentenced to seven years.
894: Michael Alan Jones

Michael Alan Jones is an insurrectionist and joined the Proud Boys on January 6th. He is also a member of the Patriot Front. When police pulled him and a colleague over for failing to make a left-hand-turn signal they found an arsenal in the car. This was more serious because Jones is a convicted felon, convicted of statutory rape in 2019 for molesting a 14 and a 15-year-old. He is banned from possessing the weapons.
880: David Lynn Richards

David Lynn Richards was the pastor of My Father’s House in Lenoir City, Tennessee. When his adopted daughter was sixteen years old, she told her guidance counselor that her father put her hand down his pants. The next day she had a forensic interview and revealed he had been raping her for two years. While he denied it and said it was motivated by defiance. However, police found his seminal fluid that matched his DNA on her bed frame.


