A Minnesota Republican state lawmaker was arrested on Monday for allegedly soliciting a minor for prostitution, Minnesota Public Radio reported.
State Sen. Justin Eichorn was arrested after he communicated with police division officers who had been posing as a 16-year-old feminine, MPR reported.
In a scene that sounds straight out of a “To Catch a Predator” episode, Eichorn arrange a time to satisfy up with who he thought was a 16-year-old lady, however when he confirmed up, he was as an alternative met by police who positioned him beneath arrest.
“As a 40-year-old man, if you happen to come to the Orange Jumpsuit District seeking to have intercourse with somebody’s youngster, you possibly can anticipate that we’re going to lock you up,” Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges stated in a press release saying Eichorn’s arrest, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported.
In what ought to come as no shock, Eichorn has long-established himself a protector of youngsters throughout his time within the Minnesota legislature.
In 2021, he got here out in opposition to a invoice that might transfer away from educating an abstinence-based intercourse training curriculum to youngsters in Minnesota faculties.
“I don’t know about you, but I don’t want my elementary age kids learning this stuff. Before you know it, they’ll be reading kids 50 Shades of Grey. This discussion is better had at a more mature age. Thankfully, the Senate will work to stop this and other crazy ideas,” Eichorn stated in a Fb publish on the time.
Eichorn can also be an anti-abortion zealot who needs to ban abortion in Minnesota beneath the guise of defending youngsters.
Simply this weekend, he was met with cheers from Make America Nice Once more influencers when he and three different Minnesota Republican state senators launched a invoice to categorise “Trump Derangement Syndrome”—which MAGAs coined to explain individuals who oppose Trump’s actions—as a psychological dysfunction.
The invoice defines “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as “the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons that is in reaction to the policies and presidencies of President Donald J. Trump.” The invoice states that Trump Derangement Syndrome “produces an inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of psychic pathology in President Donald J. Trump’s behavior.”
The invoice additional says that TDS victims have “verbal expressions of intense hostility toward President Donald J. Trump” and exhibit “overt acts of aggression and violence against anyone supporting President Donald J. Trump or anything that symbolizes President Donald J. Trump.”
Seems to be like Eichorn ought to have been extra involved along with his alleged proclivities for underage women than with individuals who oppose Trump.
Pastor Robert Morris
In the end, Eichorn is simply the newest Trump supporter arrested or accused of intercourse crimes.
Trump’s Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth was additionally accused of raping an grownup girl, however he was confirmed as the pinnacle of the Pentagon regardless of these allegations.
There’s additionally former Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, Trump’s failed lawyer common decide whose nomination went up in flames amid uproar over Gaetz’s alleged sexual exploits with underage women. Trump is reportedly upset that he didn’t combat to get Gaetz confirmed, and reportedly stated he believed Republican senators would have regarded previous Gaetz’s sexual deviancy had his nomination moved ahead.
And Trump himself has been accused of sexual assault by dozens of girls and was discovered answerable for sexually abusing former recommendation columnist E. Jean Carroll.
MAGA attracts some actual creeps.
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