The Disturbingly Long List of Credible Sex Scandals Among Trump Allies
Rudy Giuliani
It's mind boggling to me that for much of 2006 and 2007, Rudy Giuliani was the front runner to win the Republican Primary for President. The tough prosecutor, turned New York City Mayor cleaned up the city and seemed like he could do no wrong. He ran for US Senate in 2000 (against Hillary Clinton) and that's when things started going downhill. During that Senate campaign, Giuliani's year-long extramarital affair with Judith Nathan became known to the public.
Giuliani did have some history worth mentioning. In 1968, he married his second cousin; which is just gross. He cheated on her with TV personality Donna Hanover in 1982 and filed for divorce after that. The Catholic Church annulled the marriage because Giuliani claimed that he had just learned that him and his first wife were second cousins. That was blatantly untrue as they knew each other as children; which makes it just plain gross.
Giuliani married Hanover in 1984. He started cheating on her with Judith Nathan in 1999; which was mentioned above. Giuliani and Nathan didn't keep their relationship a secret, but the media didn't report it at all... until he won the Republican Primary and was up against Hillary Clinton in that aforementioned Senate race. During that Senate race, he announced at a press conference that he was leaving his wife... which is how his second wife first learned of this. In his ultimate wisdom, he formally filed for divorce in October, just one month before the general election.
He married Judith Nathan in 2003, but successfully estranged himself from his son and daughter in the process. In 2019, Giuliani and Nathan divorced. It was not long after this that Borat Subsequent Moviefilm appeared on Amazon Prime. The sequel to Sacha Baron Cohen's 2006 hit film featured him as Borat trying to marry his underage daughter to Mike Pence; who obviously isn't interested (and not just because she's "too young" for Vice President Pence). However, later in the film, the girl manages to seduce Rudy Giuliani, getting him to take her to his private hotel room, start drinking, and start unbuckling his pants while laying in bed with her standing over him. It's by far the most disturbing, cringy thing I have ever seen in any kind of movie.
While Giuliani claimed he was just "tucking his shirt in", it would later be revealed that his victims come from closer to home than Kazakhstan. In May, Noelle Dunphy, who Giuliani kept "off the books" filed a civil lawsuit against her former boss for sexual assault, wage theft, and unlawful abuse of power. Her job was to sexually satisfy Giuliani and endure his constant state of drunkenness. Then in September, Cassidy Hutchinson alleged that she was groped by Rudy Giuliani January 6th.
Sadly, we're just touching the surface of the debauchery of the Trump team.
Kristi Noem
The governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem was a young and rising superstar in the Republican Party. Unfortunately for every conservative in the country, Kristi Noem destroyed her family friendly brand by having a years-long extramarital affair with Trump campaign manager and serial sex offender Corey Lewandowski.
Corey Lewandowski
The Kristi Noem scandal is unique as both parties involved were Trump allies. Corey Lewandowski not only participated in ruining the reputation of a rising star of the Republican party in Kristi Noem by having an extramarital affair with the South Dakota governor. Even Donald Trump had to put his foot down before he got busted with Noem after Lewandowski was accused of making sexual advances towards a very big, major donor to the Trump campaign and his supporting PAC. After it was reported to Donald Trump in September 2021, the campaign cut all ties with Lewandowski. Unfortunately, Kristi Noem kept up her affair with Lewandowski after this happened.
It was a long road to get there, though. In 2016, Corey Lewandowski sexually grabbed Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields after a press conference and got arrested for it. Plus, the affair between Lewandowski and Noem had been an open secret in both Trump and Noem's circles since at least 2019, and potentially earlier. Let's face it, Lewandowski's firing came down to money. Team Trump worried about losing an important donor and opted to ditch a serial offender rather than risk losing the cash.
George Nader
George Nader was a specialist in Middle East affairs and one of Trump's most trusted informal foreign policy advisors. He was crucial to the transition period where Trump prepared to become President and worked closely with Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, and Michael Flynn. Then, in 2020, he pled guilty to two sex crimes against minors resulting in a minimum 10-year sentence.
In 1991, George Nader pled guilty to transporting illicit images of young boys and farm animals.
In 2000, he trafficked an underage boy from the Czech Republic to his home and violated him regularly while threatening him and his mother with arrest if they reported the crime.
Finally, in 2003, he was convicted of sex crimes against several underage boys in the Czech Republic, including the boy he trafficked to the United States for his personal gratification.
In 2020, he confessed to trafficking an underage boy to the United States for sex and possessing child pornography that depicted the sexual abuse of toddlers.
It's mind boggling that a man like this can still be involved in American foreign affairs, let alone in both Trump and Clinton's circle of friends.
Matt Schlapp
Trump's friend Matt Schlapp was given the position of chairman of the famed CPAC, or the Conservative Political Action Committee. While the position is normally unpaid, he collected $600k annually at the end of it, with his wife in a paid position receiving $175k. So, it seems impossible to imagine he would risk all of this in October 2022 by groping a staffer assigned to drive him around for the Herchel Walker Senate campaign.
While Matt Schlapp has denied the charges against him, his male victim has text messages from Schlapp proving the sexual nature of the assault. To their credit, the Herschel Walker campaign seemingly rallied behind the victim and likely saved him from a smear campaign by Schlapp and his cronies in the process.
Tim Ballard
The figure behind the true story of The Sound of Freedom film, Tim Ballard was preparing to run for US Senate to replace retiring Senator Mitt Romney. Unfortunately, his campaign seems to have been wrecked before it could even get off the ground.
Operation Underground Railroad, the anti-trafficking non-profit he helped to start, launched an independent investigation into reports of sexual grooming of several women by Tim Ballard and found their stories were shockingly accurate and convincing. Tim Ballard would recruit women to be his "undercover wife" while overseas and, in order to convince the traffickers, told them they needed to engage in various sexual acts with him.
The LDS church; which at one time featured Tim Ballard and his work prominently on their website, has since distanced themselves from Ballard and Operation Underground Railroad and removed the references to them from their website, citing unacceptable and immoral behavior.
Undoubtedly, Mitt Romney is sleeping a little easier at night knowing that a Trump crony like Tim Ballard won't be replacing him as one of Utah's Senators.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
Son of famed Evangelist Jerry Falwell, Jerry Falwell Jr. desperately wanted to get out from under daddy's Christian shadow, yet couldn't say no to the money and fame that came with Liberty University. Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife played the part of good Christian citizens in public, but in private, they were partying like debauched heathens in first century Rome. Trump's personal fixer, turned government informant from behind bars, Michael Cohen actually helped cover up some of their sexual deviance in exchange for the endorsement from Liberty University in the 2016 primary.
Eventually, the couple's swinging lifestyle came crashing down around them as a pool boy in Miami overplayed his hand and tried blackmailing the Evangelical power couple. When he went to the press, it was over.
Curtis Hill
Even my home state of Indiana was not left unscathed. Curtis Hill was one of my favorite Republicans in Indiana and a leading contender for Governor or US Senate... if he had kept his hands to himself.
By all accounts, Hill did phenomenal work as Indiana's Attorney General. But in 2018, four women accused Curtis Hill of sexual harassment and assault. What's particularly mind boggling about this whole thing is that one of the women he assaulted was a DEMOCRAT State Representative... AT A PARTY FOR LAWMAKERS AND THEIR STAFFS! Two of the others he assaulted at the same party were staffers to other legislators! To this day, I am absolutely baffled at the complete lack of common sense on the part of Curtis Hill. My thoughts were shared by every Republican leader in the State of Indiana who rightfully called on him to resign.
Curtis Hill refused to resign, even after having his law license suspended by the Indiana Supreme Court. Republicans tried everything possible to remove him from office, but were unable to get it done. Thankfully, the state GOP recruited Todd Rokita to challenge Curtis Hill in the 2020 Indiana GOP convention, where Hill sought to be renominated for a chance at a second term. I'm incredibly proud of the Indiana Republican Party for standing up against Curtis Hill like they did and finding a way to remove him from office, even if it just meant defeating him at the convention.
Charles Herbster
Like Curtis Hill, Charles Herbster has a thing for grabbing state legislators. He was a During an event in 2019, as Charles Herbster walked past Republican State Senator Hulie Slama, he reached up her skirt and assaulted her in the middle of a crowded ballroom at an annual County GOP event.
Two separate witnesses to the event said they saw Charles Herbster grope another young woman's butt the same night. When the Nebraska Examiner asked around, six women claimed they were touched inappropriately by Herbster while saying hello or goodbye or posing for photos at political events or beauty pageants, where he frequently made himself a judge.
Most of the women ranged from their late teens to early twenties. Herbster was in his late 50s or 60 at the time of the sexual assaults. Thankfully, he was defeated in the primary by Jim Pellen, who went on to become the Governor of Nebraska.
Literally the only thing Herbster had going for him was that he was endorsed by Donald Trump; which proved to be a death sentence in the 2022 election cycle.
Matt Gaetz
Matt Gaetz narrowly escaped prosecution for sex trafficking and having sex with a minor only because his friends turned witnesses against him were of such poor character that the prosecution didn't feel confident they could secure a conviction. Donald Trump was ready to pardon Matt Gaetz, but was convinced that the charges against him were so damning that even Donald Trump's better wisdom convinced him not to go through with the pardon.
There are several names noticeably missing from this list because I felt like it was more likely the allegations against them were fictional. When federal prosecutors dropped the case, I was tempted to drop Gaetz's name from the list; but the case against him is still pretty damning and built on a lot more than just a he-said, she-said spat.
Ali Alexander
Ali Alexander is the mastermind that organized the "Stop The Steal" campaign and helped to put together one of the rallies that preceded the storming of the Capitol Building on January 6th. Just to be clear about the company Donald Trump is keeping, Alexander was convicted of felony property theft and credit card abuse in 2007 and 2008.
In March of 2023, we learned that things had escalated as Ali Alexander moved on from property theft and credit card abuse to propositioning underage teenage boys for sex and nude photos and videos. Ali Alexander confessed his actions and apologized, but only after convincing Nick Fuentes to pressure one of his victims to recant his statement.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
Kimberly Guilfoyle was a rising star on Fox News. In addition to being a favorite guest on many panels, she was frequently used to fill in when the regular prime time show hosts were unable to host for one reason or another. Usually, when you start guest-hosting prime time shows, the network is in the process of preparing you for your own show.
Then, she unexpectedly resigned to work on a pro-Trump super PAC. It seemed odd at the time that Guilfoyle would throw away what was a promising career on television to work on a SuperPAC that would fold in just a few short years.
However, it soon became known what had happened. Kimberly Guilfoyle had developed a nasty habit of displaying herself naked, showing photos of the naked crotches of men she had been having sex with, and required her assistants to sleep over at her apartment. This resulted in one of several lawsuits against Fox News. After Guilfoyle was forced to resign, the lawsuit was settled out of court for what is believed to be a sum of more than $4 million.
UPDATE: 11/25/2023
Jason Miller (and maybe AJ Delgado)
Jason Miller is widely reported as one of Donald Trump's closest and longest serving political aides, but that's not exactly true. While Jason Miller was involved in Trump's decision not to run in 2012, he actually first got involved on the national stage with Ted Cruz's 2016 Presidential Campaign. After the primary, Trump did name Miller the campaign's Senior Communications Adviser despite a plethora of anti-Trump tweets during his time on the Cruz campaign. When Trump won the Presidency, Miller was originally considered for White House Communications Director, but ultimately declined the job to spend more time with his family.
Spending time with his family is somewhat of an ironic excuse because he was having an extramarital affair with Trump campaign staffer Arlene J. Delgado; an affair which ultimately resulted in a baby boy being born in July of 2017. However, it gets worse from here.
While Delgado initially said the affair was consensual, she would eventually file a lawsuit claiming Jason Miller hired her exclusively for her looks, habitually sexually abused her, coerced her into sex, and raped her during her time on the 2016 campaign. Now, I'm not sure how nonconsensual the affair was, but it was extremely poor judgement to say the very least.
To make matters worse, Jason Miller refused to pay child support to Delgado for her son. All of this would normally lead you to think that Trump pulled the White House Communications Director job offer at the last minute when the revelations came out. However, that doesn't seem to be the case.
Despite the sex scandal, the 2020 Trump campaign hired Jason Miller at $35,000 a month. They even funneled his salary through Jason Miller's former consulting firm so that it would be more difficult for Delgado to prove his income in court and avoiding $3,000/month in child support.
