Trump's Oklahoma campaign chair to plead guilt to child sex trafficking

[CousinIT]

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trump-s-oklahoma-campaign-chair-plead-guilt-child-sex-trafficking-n822461

Ralph Shortey, a former Oklahoma state senator who last year served as Donald Trump's campaign chair in the state, was meticulous about keeping up his reputation as a pious man, according to several fellow Oklahomans. That reputation, however, has all but disappeared. According to Shortey's attorney, the former Republican lawmaker will plead guilty to one count of child sex trafficking on Nov. 30.

Shortey, a 35-year-old married father of three, resigned from the state Legislature in March after being charged with several felonies, including engaging in child prostitution, after police found him in a hotel room with a 17-year-old male. Shortey's attorney, Ed Blau, confirmed that his client will plead guilty to a charge of child sex trafficking in exchange for U.S. prosecutors' dropping three child pornography charges against him.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Only the best people.

[JDC]

2. I remember this story. It goes back a ways.

[Rorey]

3. Um

Oops

[lpbk2713]

4. Not to make light of this story but the irony is inescapable.

He's 6' 6" and 315 lbs and his name is Shortey?

[dweller]

8. probably in reference to his

um, shorts ?
🤔

✌🏼

[I_UndergroundPanther]

5. Like bigotry

I think the right wingers are full of psychopathy and perverts.

[FM123]

6. Disgusting.

And these repugs keep spreading those Q Anon crazy conspiracy theories that "libruls" are all pedophiles in some kind of sex trafficking ring. Project much???

[rickford66]

7. Did this happen in the basement of a pizzeria ?

[Nevilledog]

10. Damn... Woulda beat your post if I didn't still to get coffee...lol

GMTA

[rickford66]

11. Great minds of course.

[Nevilledog]

9. Please tell me he works in a pizza parlor with a basement.

oh please oh please oh please

[Grokenstein]

13. It's always projection with these clowns. Every damn time.

[Warpy]

12. Yep, these assholes love to hide behind the cross, the flag, and the Republican Party

because they know most fools want to be fooled by all three of those.

I wonder how many more of his victims are out there.

[Midnight Writer]

14. When I left home, my Dad said some things, and he told me all about Shorty.

He said if a man ever asks me if I want to "shake hands with Shorty" or if I want to "meet Shorty", I am to tell them "I want none of that!"

[AllyCat]

15. Old story. Bad story.

[CousinIT]

16. It is old (2017), but has it been proven untrue?

Or...unreliable sources or what?

Genuinely curious.

[AllyCat]

20. Nope. Wonder if Armchair Subversive site is still around?

It kept track of all the GOP criminal hypocrites.

[Johnny2X2X]

17. IS this why the MAGA rally is in Tulsa?

Maybe to support this guy? Trump has always had a soft spot for his fellow child sex traffickers.

[CousinIT]

18. 'Trump has always had a soft spot for his fellow child sex traffickers.'

Truth.

[Johnny2X2X]

19. Trump massage parlors and escort services

How his history of sex trafficking isn't a news story is beyond me. While in office he expanded his sex trafficking empire into China as he received several patents on his Trump brand massage parlors and escort services. Massage parlors and escort services is sex trafficking, and in the Far East, it is child sex trafficking. Trump is quite literally a pimp, and there's a 99% chance some of the girls he traffics are very young children. He's that sick.

[CousinIT]

21. They bribe cops, attorneys general, prosecutors, judges...and probably have dirt on many of them.

That's how Epstein got away with it for so long. It's a well-honed racket.

[SoonerPride]

22. Sigh. My state is a fucking shit show.