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382: Steve Bannon

Familial Abuse & Violence, Sexual Harassment

Steve Bannon was the co-founder of Breitbart News, the media engine that drove the alt-right into power in the Republican party. They’ve been fact-checked eight times by PolitiFact and only one story was mostly true. He was the CEO of Trump’s presidential campaign. He was later appointed as chief strategist and senior counselor in the…

370: Josh Duggar

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Incest

Josh Duggar is one of the famed Duggar family who had a reality show on The Learning Channel called 19 Kids and Counting. Duggar also worked for the Family Research Council, a sanctimonious anti-gay organization. He molested five girls and his parents knew and covered it up, even though some of those he molested were his sisters. Even though he knew his own son was a molester, Jim Bob Duggar, his father, said “rape and incest represent heinous crimes and as such should be treated as capital crimes.”

361: Jacob Wohl

Rape Culture

Jacob Wohl is a conspiracist and rightwing extremist who was banned for life from the National Futures Association when he was just twenty years old. He has a bingo card of security fraud charges and illegal securities sales, but despite his corrupt criminal history, he has been welcomed by Republicans as he uses his corrupt tactics to attack people with false accusations of sexual assault.

329: Scott Baio

Child Molestation, Sexual Harassment

Scott Baio is a former actor. Chachi of Happy Days. His most recent iteration is as a Republican activist and Trump supporter. He is also alleged to have sexual assaulted a minor. Actress Nicole Eggert claims that Scott Baio began to sexually harass and assault her on the set of their show Charles In Charge…

314: Scott Paul Beierle

Murder, Sexual Assault

Scott Beierle was a member of FSU Republicans and the Facebook group We Are Conservatives. He also was an open misogynist and racist who posted hate-filled videos on YouTube ranting against women and interracial marriage. He admired Elliot Rodger, the man who killed six and wounded fourteen in California. He was forty years old and ranting about girls who slighted him in eighth grade to the present.

He was fired as a substitute teacher for inappropriately touching a middle school girl. There were regullar complaints about him being creepy.

Before he entered a Florida yoga studio and killed two people and wounded four, he was arrested for groping women and prosecutors dropped the charges.

296: John Boswell

Indecent Exposure, Sexual Assault

John Boswell is a GOP donor and party activist. He’s also sexually assaulted two women in less than two years. He was in D. C. to celebrate Trump’s Inauguration. While at the Mayflower Hotel, he walked up behind the maid who was cleaning his room, grabbed her buttocks and said “I like that.” A second…

264: Christian Hine

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Christian Hine was President of the Charlotte, South Carolina, Tea Party and active in Republican campaigns. He had a long history of activism on behalf of conservative issues such as opposing the Affordable Care Act to opposing local tax measures. He also looked at child exploitation materials, sharing hundreds of images over ten years.

He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years in prison with eight years suspended. In a novel and disgusting attempt to avoid any prison time, he claimed he viewed child sexual exploitation media because he was depressed and autistic. In gross malfeasance, the Charlotte Observer wrote an offensively credulous article accepting that.

263: Joseph Hayon

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Joseph Hayon was an anti-gay conservative activist and founder of the Brooklyn Tea Party. He ran for the New York Assembly in 2010 emphasizing family values, attacking his opponent for supporting an anti-bullying bill because it included LGBTIQ students. He ran again in 2012 in a different district, and lost again. In 2013, he ran for City Council and lost definitively. His campaign again focused on morality and family values, emphasizing a proposal to ban the sale of obscene literature and have librarians face criminal penalties if children saw porn on library computers.

He was arrested and confessed to viewing child exploitation imagery of girls from two to twelve. He was convicted of 94 counts of possession of sexual performance by a child. He was sentenced to 1.4 to 4 years per count to run concurrently.

261: Lane Rees

Child Sexual Abuse Material

He pleaded no contest to one count of promoting sexual performance of a child and 28 counts of possession of child pornography. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the first and upon release 10 years of probation for the 28 counts of possession of child pornography.

255: Greg Peterson

Kidnapping, Rape

Gregory Nathan Peterson was an activist for the Utah Republican party. Two women alleged he took them to his cabin and raped them. A third claimed he attempted to rape her but gave in when she showed her gun. Two other women claimed he raped them in their homes. He was charged with kidnapping as well as rape. Two days after being released on bail he killed himself leaving a vindictive, self-justifying note.