Thread by @richardhine

🧵 When Mitt Romney’s niece Ronna Romney McDaniel took over the leadership of the Republican National Committee (RNC) in 2017, the Republican Party was in crisis.... (1/x)

The election of the notorious pervert, pussygrabber, and pornstar-hush-money-paying Donald Trump had destroyed the party’s reputation as a protector of “family values.” (2/x)

Trump was a known associate of child rapists like Jeffrey Epstein and John Casablancas.

Even before the 2016 election, Trump was revealed to have hosted “wild parties with sex, cocaine and underage models” in which girls as young as 15 were "introduced" to older men. (3/x)

Where did Trump find the teens he would routinely pimp out?

A 2016 exposé by Mother Jones revealed how Trump Models routinely recruited teenage tourists from Eastern Europe, forcing them to live in cramped conditions while paying “sky-high rents.” (4/x)

https://twitter.com/jameswest2010/status/1015385976208699392

As @GOPChairwoman, McDaniel had an opportunity to tackle the GOP’s pervert and pedophilia problem.

Would she:

a) Insist the @GOP reclaim its role as staunch defender of “Christian” values?

or:

b) Embrace the "Party of Trump's" trend to sexual abuse and exploitation?

(5/x)

The answer is, of course, (b).

Since 2017, @GOPChairwoman has remained silent as multiple new rape, child porn and sex trafficking scandals have rocked the GOP, shocked the conscience and disgusted even the most hardened law enforcement personnel. (6/x)

One example: @GOP staffer Ruben Verastigui was arrested as part of a federal child sexual exploitation investigation. He wrote: “Babies are some of my biggest turn-ons.” He also discussed "in great detail" how much he enjoyed seeing children be abused and killed. (7/x)

In August 2021, @GOP strategist Anton Lazzaro was “arrested and indicted on federal sex trafficking charges for allegedly recruiting six minor victims to engage in commercial sex acts.”

Like Matt Gaetz, Lazzaro had used Fox News appearances to ingratiate himself to Trump. (8/x)

In December 2021, I interviewed @Cajsa, the Twitter user who, since September 2018, outraged by the Kavanaugh hearings, has been compiling a list of #RepublicanSexualPredators. That list now has nearly 800 names.

And @GOPChairwoman's silence remains deafening. (9.x)

Even today, as Ronna Romney McDaniel continues to bury her head in the sand about the active pedophilia and sex trafficking scandals in her own party, the GOP continues to launch outrageous attacks against Supreme Court nominee #KetanjiBrownJackson. (10/x)

The “Soft on Pedos” attacks now extend to Republican Senators including Ronna’s own uncle, @MittRomney himself, for the crime of voting in favor of Jackson’s nomination. (11/x)

The truth, in the upside-down world of the #GQP, is once again the exact opposite of what the likes of @MZHemingway and @RepMTG are saying.

Only one party is “Soft on Pedos.”

And the wrong Romney is being attacked. (12/12) thedailyedge.substack.com/p/whos-really-…