A Louisiana Republican congressional candidate endorsed by Donald Trump was the subject of a 2007 rape accusation that was reported to local law enforcement the same day of the alleged assault – but never disclosed to the public or, reportedly, the president’s team as he became one of the rising stars in the state’s Republican party.
That has raised concerns within the White House that Blake Miguez “either wasn’t fully vetted or wasn’t forthcoming about discoverable documents from his past” before securing Trump’s backing, the Atlantic reported on Wednesday, citing two unnamed sources familiar with the endorsement process.
Miguez’s campaign told the Atlantic it denied the allegations by a woman who described him as a “live-in ex boyfriend” at the time. The claims did not result in any formal criminal charges after the accuser said she refused to press charges against Miguez – then in law school – because she did not want to get him into trouble, according to what investigators wrote in a police report obtained by the Guardian through a public records request.
At this point I’d be surprised if the American Nazi party fielded anyone who wasn’t a sex criminal or psychopath.
It’s almost like conservatives are inherently evil because they lack empathy and the virtue, ethics, or morality that are derived from it.
Unfortunately babyboomers still have 20-30 years of life in them. My bosses are 50-60 yrs old. There all trump loving suckers and losers who fell for a con mans lies.
Maybe some do. If we don’t exclude Generation Jones, boomers range in age from 62-80. I doubt too many are going to live to 92-110.
It’s easy to forget, but Gen Y is now as old as 45. Someone who is in their 50s is Gen X.
Yeah I’m 52. I’m not a boomer. I’m more like the oldest xennial (I’m too old for that cohort but they are defined by growing up with internet and technology and I was definitely on the leading edge of my generation for that).
The sad thing is, for all the rhetoric about “boomers”, the generations I’m most concerned about are far younger. The boomers had all kinds of movements against “the man”. If there is any measurable movement among the military aged right now, it seems to be pro-fascist or at least fascist-adjacent. Especially if you exclude the women.
So, Gen X that are acting like boomers then?