Tag: Appointee

1510: Lori Chavez-Deremer

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Lori Chavez-Deremer

Lori Chavez-Deremer was a former U.S. Representative from Oregon before her appointment as Trump’s Labor Secretary. After her first year in office, it was revealed the Inspector General was investigating her for abuse of power and pursuing a romantic relationship with a subordinate, a member of her security detail. In typical manner, he is the one placed on leave.

There are two additional ethics complaints that allege she had her aides direct department grants to further her political career or to make time for personal trips. Those aides were also put on leave.

Oregonian, The (Portland, OR)
January 28, 2026

1506: Pam Bondi

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Pam Bondi

Pam Bondi became Florida’s Attorney General in 2011 after a campaign promising an emphasis on child sexual abuse and trafficking. She declared Florida would have zero tolerance for child predators. It’s odd, then, that she ignored Epstein while she was Attorney Genderal.

Epstein had already pleaded guilty to two minor misdemeanor charges in 2008. Rather than pursue the case as a predator ensnaring young girls in his rape club, the prosecutor thought he was just a patron of criminal sex workers.

Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter saw the local case was going awry, given his department built the case against Epstein. He forwarded the information to the feds. That is when then US Attorney Alex Acosta brokered the sweetheart deal that offended the world. When the media finally got the transcripts after years of seeking access, the miscarriage of justice was a worldwide scandal and yet she never took the opportunity to investigate or prosecute.

So why did she do nothing? Supposedly going after people who prey on children was her top priority? The now-shuttered Trump Foundation gave her an illegal $25,000 contribution, allegedly to stop her going after Trump University. Was that all? After all, Trump friend Alan Dershowitz, plus Clinton prosecutor Ken Starr, and Trump eventual nominee Alex Acosta were all involved in that sweetheart deal for Epstein.

As US Attorney General, she has done her best to protect Trump from release of embarassing information in the massive trove of files. She delayed the release of the documents and held back half the documents, claiming she had released everything.


The Miami Herald
Miami, Florida · Thursday, September 04, 2025

1501: Ryan McDonough

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Ryan McDonough

Ryan McDonough was a doctor in Wasilla, Alaska. He was appointed to the State Medical Board by Alaska’s Republican Governor Mike Dunleavy in August 2025. He resigned in November, a few days before his arrest for possession of child sexual abuse material. In his short tenure, however, he voted in favor of disciplining doctors who provide gender-affirming care and limiting abortion access.

In July, 2025, Dropbox sent a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, informing them that McDonough appeared to have an account containing a video of a child being sexually abused. A second tip followed soon after and State Police got a search warrant for his Dropbox, GCI and Google account. They later got a search warrant and seized his computer. He was arrested in December.

A few days later his house burned to the ground and his remains were found inside. The rest of his family was unharmed. Due to his death, the case was dismissed. (3PA-25-02257CR State of Alaska vs. Mcdonough, Ryan Joseph TVJ)

New York Post (NY)
December 19, 2025

1467: Paul Ingrassia

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Paul Ingrassia

Paul Ingrassia is Trump’s nominee for the Office of Special Counsel. His nomination is stalled due to several concerns about his lack of experience since he just graduated from law school in 2022 and of bias arising from his support for Nick Fuentes and his extremist views such as the absurd notion that the descendants of enslaved people owe reparations to the descendants of those who enslaved them. He called for Trump to declare Martial Law in 2020 and for the states that voted for Trump to secede if they failed to overturn the election.

In his work as White House liaison to Homeland Security, he was accused of sexual harassment arising from an incident when several people traveled to Florida. A subordinate’s room at their hotel was cancelled and he told her she would have to share his room. It is alleged he cancelled the room in order to force the situation.

A human resources complaint was filed by a colleage. Five people affirmed this happened. Three witnesses affirm that Ingrassia cancelled the reservation. The woman who ended up sharing Ingrassia’s room denied anything improper happened, though others say her work has suffered since the incident and that she is afraid of retaliation. The woman who filed the complaint withdrew it for fear of retaliation.

Ingrassia denies cancelling her reservation.

New Republic, The: Web Edition Articles
October 10, 2025

1459: Terry Steinwand

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Terry Steinwand

Terry Steinwand was the Director of North Dakota Game and Fish, appointed to the position by three different Republican governors in the last fifteen years of his career. He was arrested on September 5, 2025, and charged with gross sexual imposition with a person under the age of fifteen.

A child told a counselor at Bismarck Children’s Advocacy Center that they had been touched by Steinwand, both over and under their clothing. Police from Mandan interviewed Steinwand and he claimed that he did it to calm the child down and that it was merely tickling. On a side note, has anyone ever heard of tickling as a calming technique?

He is out on $5,000 bond. A trial is scheduled for Feb. 17, 2026.

Bismarck Tribune, The (ND)
September 9, 2025
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1442: Linda McMahon

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Linda McMahon is Trump’s Secretary of Education who considers her job is to eliminate the Department of Education. Perhaps he thought she was well-suited for the job as she has been sued for negligence that allowed children to be sexually abused by an employee of World Wrestling Entertainment when she was the CEO. Notably, one of her responses to the suit is to claim she had no “duty of care” for the minor children employed as ring boys.

In October 2024, five men who worked as ring boys at several WWE events sued the organization and Vince and Linda McMahon. It is Maryland Case Number C-03-CV-24-004019. They were sexually abused by the WWE ring announcer Mel Phillips. They allege that the McMahons were negligent allowing Phillips to openly take ring boys to his hotel room, for example. This suit did not come out of thin air. The FBI investigated and found at least ten children abused by Phillips. They allege the McMahons must have known and did nothing to stop the abuse.

The McMahons have claimed that they can’t sue in Maryland and that it was unconstitutional to sue because of a change in the statute of limitations. In February, 2025, the Maryland Supreme Court ruled that the change in the statute of limitations was constitutional and the lawsuit was allowed to go forward.

The Baltimore Sun
Fri, Feb 14, 2025 ·Page A004

1402: Judd Stone

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Judd Stone

Judd Stone was the Solicitor General of Texas. He defended the Texas abortion bounty to the Supreme Court by arguing that just knowing an abortion takes place causes such distress that it rises to a “tort of outrage.” Not only can someone whose feelings are hurt by hearing about an abortion, they can sue anyone involved, no matter how tenuous the link, for example. a taxi driving taking someone to a clinic. That guy. He was forced to resign amid allegations of sexual harassment from two women. The allegations are lurid as you can deduce from the headlines in the news stories. You can read the entirety in Brent Webster’s letter below.

Recently, Stone was appointed to a judicial review panel, but had to resign after he was sued for sexual harassment by one of the two women in May 2025. Stone has hit back, alleging in a lawsuit that Webster falsified the letter he wrote and that Webster bragged to him about tampering with witnesses.

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1362: Peter Hegseth

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Peter Hegseth

Peter Hegseth is currently the Secretary of Defense in the Trump Administration. His nomination was approved by the Senate despite his history of sexual harassment, sexual assault, domestic violence and his frequent and infamous issues with drinking.

In 2017, he paid off a woman who had reported to the police that he raped her. He paid her $50,000 and then claimed he was completely cleared. The police report does not say he was cleared. Not at all.

His mother wrote him an email several years ago that accused him of abusing women. From her email, “You are an abuser of women — that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.” She claims she retracts the accusation.

His former sister-in-law filed an affidavit alleging that he abused his second wife to the point she had an escape plan, a safe word to alert friends that she was in danger. and hid in a closet in fear of Hegseth.

Defense pick Peter Hegseth paid accuser – Minnesota Public Radio: Web Edition Articles (MN) – November 18, 2024

1335: Mike Vereb

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Mike Vereb

Mike Vereb has served as a Republican state representative in Pennsylvania from 2007 until 2017. He also served in the administration of Josh Shapiro, the Democratic governor, in the position of Secretary of Legislative Affairs.

Before he entered politics he worked as a police officer and a security specialist.

A woman who worked for him in the administration resigned after two months. She alleged he made sexual advances and made lewd comments about co-workers and a state senator. Her allegations included retaliatory attacks on her performance when she refused an affair with him. The Governor’s Office settled with a payment of $295,000.

1270: Luis Borunda

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Luis Esteban Borunda

Luis Borunda served as Deputy Secretary of State under Republican Governor Larry Hogan of Maryland. He served a short time on former President Trump’s “voter fraud “election integrity” panel that collapsed in scandal and was disbanded. In August, 2023, he was arrested by state police for soliciting a minor in an internet sting. The subsequent investigation led to him also being charged federally with possession and distribution of Child Sexual Abuse Material.

Borunda has been charged with the sexual exploitation of a child, coercion and enticement of a minor, two counts of distributing child pornography as well as the possession of child pornography.

Borunda has a long history of activism in the Republican party. He co-founded Maryland Hispanic Republican Caucus. He founded Hispanic Republicans of Maryland. He chaired the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. He was appointed to Baltimore County Board of Education and helped create the U.S. Hispanic Youth Entrepreneur Education.