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ForgoTheConsequence

(4,868 posts)
Sun Feb 7, 2021, 09:52 AM Feb 2021

Former Trump and GOP Aide Charged With Distributing Child Porn

A former digital strategist for the Senate Republican Conference, who also worked for pro-life groups and designed social media ads for Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, has been charged with distributing child pornography.

D.C. Metropolitan Police arrested Ruben A. Verastigui on Friday after an investigation revealed he allegedly “distributed, received, and possessed images of child pornography” between March 2020 and February 2021. Jared Holt, resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, first reported Verastigui’s arrest on Twitter.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-trump-and-gop-aide-ruben-verastigui-charged-with-child-pornography-offenses

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Former Trump and GOP Aide Charged With Distributing Child Porn (Original Post) ForgoTheConsequence Feb 2021 OP
The party of morals . . . Iliyah Feb 2021 #1
Can't help but wonder if he was int he loop with the malaise Feb 2021 #8
Hypocrite? North Shore Chicago Feb 2021 #2
Projection. Republicans accuse us of doing what they're actually doing. yardwork Feb 2021 #3
THIS malaise Feb 2021 #9
Yep! bamagal62 Feb 2021 #10
Part of that "Big Tent"? atreides1 Feb 2021 #4
Maybe he was "Q"... orwell Feb 2021 #5
I predict he'll never see the inside of a jail cell... NurseJackie Feb 2021 #6
He's prolly not going to want to go to any prison with those credentials. BComplex Feb 2021 #7
He is pro-life but anti-infant: dalton99a Feb 2021 #11

malaise

(268,949 posts)
8. Can't help but wonder if he was int he loop with the
Sun Feb 7, 2021, 10:53 AM
Feb 2021

one who killed the two FBI agents in Florida. Bet the FBi and cops got a whole pile of connections

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
6. I predict he'll never see the inside of a jail cell...
Sun Feb 7, 2021, 10:12 AM
Feb 2021

Last edited Sun Feb 7, 2021, 03:22 PM - Edit history (1)

... he'll end his own life as Mark Salling (from TV's "Glee'') did just days before he was to be sentenced for possessing/distributing child porn.

BComplex

(8,046 posts)
7. He's prolly not going to want to go to any prison with those credentials.
Sun Feb 7, 2021, 10:47 AM
Feb 2021

That likely would not end well anyway.

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