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Apr 8 • 14 tweets • 9 min read
Ruben Verastigui is a 27-year-old "pro-life advocate" and ex-campaign aide for former President Donald Trump.

He has also worked as a senior digital strategist for the @GOP.

He was just sentenced to 151 months in prison on child pornography charges. justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/dis…
DOJ: From Feb 2020 to Apr 21, "Verastigui was active in an online group devoted to trading child pornography and discussing child sexual abuse. Verastigui shared child pornography videos with another member of the group and made numerous comments about sexually abusing children."
DOJ: "Verastigui indicated his preference for babies, saying they were his 'absolute favorite,' and solicited another group member for videos of babies being raped. The other group member... sent Verastigui a video of a baby being raped... Verastigui responded enthusiastically."
via @LawCrimeNetwork: Verastigui also said his age preference was infants up to 12 year olds. And, he commented, “I can’t stop thinking about touching, raping, and killing a newborn baby, been hard all morning.” lawandcrime.com/crime/ex-gop-a… #RepublicanSexualPredators
In the age of Trump, Roy Moore, Matt Gaetz, and #GymJordan, Ruben Verastigui is one of the lesser-known but worst examples of the predators and pedophiles that have infected the @GOP, with zero outrage from party leaders like @GOPChairwoman or @GOPLeader.
thedailyedge.substack.com/p/700-and-coun…
While reporters get manipulated by @GOP trolls in SCOTUS confirmation hearings and on Twitter, the question they should be answering isn't about Josh Hawley's or Marjorie Taylor Greene's performative nonsense.

It's why @GOPChairwoman lets all this happen.
thedailyedge.substack.com/p/whos-really-…
The irony is, for all the breathless media coverage of #HunterBidensLaptop or @JimmyKimmel upsetting Marjorie Snowflake Greene, reporting the truth about #RepublicanSexualPredators doesn't even take much work.

Twitter user @cajsa has been compiling the list since 2018....
.@cajsa has done all the work -- her list of #RepublicanSexualPredators, fully sourced, is now 784 names long -- and she's posted it online for all you would-be Woodwards and Bernsteins, #60Minutes producers and #Netflix documentary makers to run with...
Meanwhile, @GOP strategist Anton Lazzaro, who ingratiated himself to Trump via Fox News appearances before being arrested on multiple child sex trafficking charges, is now arguing he was arrested not for raping children, but for being a rich Republican. startribune.com/state-gop-oper…
Trump Commerce Dept official Adam Hageman was arrested in the same federal investigation that caught Ruben Verastigui. He shared & commented on child porn & brought in "at least one other person interested in child pornography and bestiality to the chat.” politico.com/news/2021/03/0…
In 2021, Josh Duggar was found unanimously guilty on two child pornography charges. One agent described the images Duggar downloaded as among “the worst of the worst” he’s ever seen. He faces up to 20 years in prison & fines up to $250,000 for each count. thedailyedge.substack.com/p/gop-gang-of-…
Self-confessed sexual predator Donald Trump allowed his close friend, the notorious pedophile George Nader to sell access to the White House, despite Nader's two prior convictions.

Nader is now serving 10 years in federal prison for transporting a 14-year-old to America for sex.
NEW: @RepJohnRose (R-TN) recently spoke out against child sex predators on the House floor. He met his future wife when she was a 17-year-old high school senior. At the time he was the 42-year-old vice chairman of TN FFA.
prospect.org/politics/how-r… via @ryanlcooper and @alex_sammon
“Those who seek to view & share child pornography facilitate the abuse of children by those who produce & profit from this illegal content,” said US Atty Jason Coody.

Florida Republican Eric Lipman sentenced in child pornography case. #GangOfPedophiles
tallahassee.com/story/news/loc…

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