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trumad

(41,692 posts) Fri May 29, 2015, 05:17 PM May 2015

Apologies on my hidden Gay thread earlier. [View all]

I read the Dennis Hastert story wrong....and thought he had sex with a grown man. I stated he spent 3.5 million to cover up he was Gay. My mistake...if I'd have know he abused some kid I'd would have never said that.

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Apologies on my hidden Gay thread earlier. [View all] trumad May 2015 OP

No one knows what he did or whom "person A' is. Vincardog May 2015 #1

We do know that Person A was a student while Hastert was a wrestling coach when he was a HS teacher. MADem May 2015 #2

How do we know that? It wasn't in the indictment. Vincardog May 2015 #3

Head for the latest threads here at DU, there are several threads with links. nt MADem May 2015 #8

The story said sexual abuse of a male. If true, we know that. merrily May 2015 #6

What story? I saw Rachel read the indictment. Vincardog May 2015 #9

The news story about this that was posted on DU. merrily May 2015 #11

Apology accepted since I took your statement to point to the Vile way the self-righteous Anti LGBT misterhighwasted May 2015 #4

Honestly thought if he did have sex with a man.. trumad May 2015 #7

..and went on to legislate morality against Pres Bill Clinton misterhighwasted May 2015 #10

Yes. Why would he pay 3 mil to hide a gay affair? misterhighwasted May 2015 #12

Gotta watch those hides, dude! KamaAina May 2015 #5

Not for long Renew Deal May 2015 #19

I wasn't sure either gwheezie May 2015 #13

Neither were we. All we had was the ability to speculate. calimary May 2015 #20

Whether he's been paying off a love-child or a minor he sexually abused... countryjake May 2015 #14

Very nice of you to do this marym625 May 2015 #15

Fact based trumad May 2015 #16

completely agree marym625 May 2015 #17

I read it the same way the first time Renew Deal May 2015 #18