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This story popped up last week and has been quietly gaining steam since then. It’s quickly becoming an embarrassing issue for the Trump campaign because everything about it is gross.
It turns out that Jonathan Stone, Republican state representative and a Trump campaign county chair in New Hampshire, is a pedophile with an extremely violent temper.
Via InDepthNH.org (give it up for local reporting):
Republican Rep. Jon Stone’s New Hampshire law enforcement career ended when he threatened to kill fellow police officers in a shooting spree, and murder his chief after raping the chief’s wife and children, all while he was already under scrutiny for his inappropriate relationship with a teen girl, according to the internal investigation reports finally released this week.
Stone, a twice-elected Republican state representative for Claremont, has been fighting to keep those reports secret for years. Last month, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that Stone could not block their release in response to this reporter’s 2020 right-to-know request, ending years of legal challenges.
Well…that’s…something.
It’s not like any of this gets better when you look at the details:
During his interview, Stone told police he first met the girl when responding to a prowler call, but their relationship started up after a later incident when the girl called police because her mother had not come home that night. The mother turned out to have been with a male companion that night.
In other words, Stone found a vulnerable girl and started grooming her when she was 15. When he was caught and ordered not to continue trying to fuck a little girl (she was 16 when their “relationship” was outed), Stone got very upset about the whole thing:
Detective John Simonds, now Sullivan County Sheriff, told Casey he heard Stone make numerous threats aimed at [Police Chief Alex] Scott and his family.
“I have heard him say (when he is pissed off) that he is going to go to the Chief’s house and rape his wife. He is going to make the Chief watch. He is going to possibly hurt the Chief while he is there,” Simonds said. “I recall Jon saying he was going to go to the Chief’s house and rape the Chief’s wife, and kids, and shoot the Chief.”
How creepy is it that the least surprising thing here is that Stone wants to rape kids? He clearly spends a lot of time thinking about it.
Anyway, he was fired after this and then went and opened a gun store. Because that’s exactly what a fucking creep like Stone needs: Unlimited access to guns. A few years later, he gave an engraved AR-15 to Trump. Isn’t that precious?
The Trump campaign claims they didn’t know any of this and considering the records were sealed, that’s entirely possible. Here’s the thing, though, Trump and his GOP attract an awful lot of pedophiles.
Epstein, Gaetz, Moore, Duggar, and the list goes on forever. While Republicans were screaming about “groomers” and pedophiles, they were actively fighting to make sex with children easier.
Lowering or eliminating the age of consent. Openly pushing to redefine what pedophilia is. Assigning sexual value to children. This is what the right is doing right now.
There is a phenomena where sexual predators graviate towards institutions where they will be protected. The Catholic Church. The Southern Baptist Convention (which is far worse than the Church). The Boy Scouts. The police. And, more recently, the Republican Party.
I’ve written about this more than once. Both parties have had their share of sex scandals over the years. But within the last decade or so, the GOP has been infested with pedophiles and sexual deviants.
It’s tempting to say that we’re only uncovering these predators because of better enforcement and more sophisticated online tools for detection. That it’s always been that way because “something something politics.” The problem with this thought process is that we are not seeing the same explosion of pedophiles associated with the Democratic Party. Oh, there’s a few, but not the never-ending parade of perverts and creeps flooding the Republican Party on an almost daily basis.
This is a problem unique to the Republican Party in American politics. The right’s fringe is consumed with rationalizing pedophilia and the fringe of the right never stays the fringe for long.
Jonathan Stone might be removed from the Trump campaign. This time. But I promise you, a few years from now, as more and more Republicans are outed as pedos, the right will stop punishing them and instead circle the wagons. All of their talk of “protect the children!” and hostility towards imaginary groomers will vanish when they finally decide that grooming is actually natural and healthy and part of God’s design.
I have no idea how we’re going to deal with that but it’s coming and we need to start preparing for it. For starters, by destroying the Republican Party so utterly that pedophiles will have no place in our political system ever again.
There are 207 days until the 2024 election. Vote blue like your life depends on it.
If you’re sick and twisted, it’s not a huge surprise that you’ll surround yourself with the same. The guy that wrote AZ’s 1864 abortion law abandoned his first wife to marry a 12 year old.
“Trump won’t do a deal unless there’s something extra — a kind of moral larceny — in it. He’s not satisfied with a profit. He has to take something more. Otherwise, there’s no thrill.” Village Voice