Anthony D'Esposito, The Tough Guy Cheats!

Republican Anthony D'Esposito is a bully. A cheater too. The lawmaker had an affair. The Congress and feds are probing him.

New York mayor Eric Adams is a Democrat. His allies are Democrats and Republicans.

Adams and his staff are under federal watch for allegations of corruption. The FBI seized property from his deputy mayors, the police commissioner, the five boroughs school superintendent, two FDNY leads and his Adams' secretary. It will likely reach the police unions and associates of Adams.

What two consenting adults do in their personal lives isn't my business. However, in MAGAland, these assholes deserve to be called out for their endless hypocrisy.

Winners and losers of 2024.

The Trump Campaign has been dealing with scandals and assassination attempts. They riled up Springfield, Ohio, Aurora, Colorado, Haitians, Indians, childless cat ladies, IVF families, Swifties and investors. It's no wonder, the Trump camp wants to keep allegations out of the spotlight.

Can the feds start investigating sexual predators Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, Bill O'Reilly, Richard Branson, Matt Lauer, Kevin Liles, L.A. Reid, Russell Simmons, Jesse Watters, T.D. Jakes, Jerry Falwell, Jr., Alan Dershowitz, Boosie Badazz and Sean "Softball" Hannity?

I really hope the dominos fall on these entites.

George Santos calling for Anthony D'Esposito to resign. The former Republican lawmaker vows to spill tea on his former colleagues.

They are powerful figures in the junk food media. But as the government can hold Harvey Weinstein, R. Kelly, Danny Masterson, Bill Cosby and soon Sean "Puffy" Combs to the standards of criminal justice, so can these folks.

The king of white privilege Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States and 2024 Republican presidential nominee is the leader of this pack. He is liable sexual predator and convicted felon. The Republicans are still backing his bullshit.

The New York Republican who supports arresting pro Palestinian protesters, deporting immigrants, banning Muslims, banning boycotts of Israel, supporting mandatory LIFE for cop killers and impeaching President Joe Biden had an affair.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Olivia Nuzzi, Donald Trump, Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, Laura Loomer, Alina Habba and now Rep. Anthony D'Esposito (R-NY).

MAGAland's swingers club.

D'Esposito was a police officer with the NYPD's 73rd Precinct Detective Squad, Military and Extended Leave Desk. He joined the NYPD in 2006 and worked there until retiring in 2020.

During his NYPD career, D'Esposito received four complaints, including one for excessive force and one for an improper search for which it was recommended that charges be filed against him. He was also reprimanded twice by the department: in 2007, for working as a DJ and serving alcohol in a nightclub without departmental permission, for which he was stripped of 15 vacation days; and in 2015, when he was docked 20 vacation days for failing to secure his firearm, which was stolen after he left it unattended in a car.

He was elected in 2023 after defeating the Democratic challenger in a fairly Democratic district. The district is +5 Democratic. It is now considered a swing.

D’Esposito, one of the GOP’s most endangered House incumbents, reportedly gave both his lover and his fiancée’s daughter part-time jobs in his district office on Long Island, a potential violation of House ethics rules.

D’Esposito hired the pair shortly after taking office in 2023, according to The New York Times, together paying them nearly $30,000 in taxpayer funds, records of which are publicly available. The House of Representatives’ code of conduct forbids members from employing close family members.

The report could be a significant blow to his already tenuous path to reelection. D’Esposito is locked in a tight rematch with Democrat Laura Gillen, whom he defeated by fewer than 10,000 votes two years ago. His victory then flipped the South Shore district now considered by both parties to be a critical battleground in the fight for control of the House.

“My personal life has never interfered with my ability to deliver results for New York’s 4th district, and I have upheld the highest ethical standards of personal conduct,” the congressman said in a statement to CNN. He called the story, the details of which he has not denied, “a slimy, partisan ‘hit piece.’”

In comments to reporters later Tuesday, D’Esposito specifically denied the allegations of hiring the two women.

“There was nothing that was done that was not ethical,” he told CNN’s Manu Raju on Capitol Hill.

D’Esposito maintained he will “absolutely” continue his race for reelection “and win.”

Both his fiancée and lover, in brief conversations with the New York Times, confirmed the reporting.

Mike Johnson stands by embattled Republican Anthony D'Esposito.

A former detective in the New York Police Department, D’Esposito in or around 2017 also helped his fiancée and her son obtain municipal jobs after he was appointed to the Hempstead town council. Gillen previously served as the supervisor in Hempstead, the country’s largest township. She was elected in November 2017.

D’Esposito, whose family has long been deeply connected to the estimable Nassau County Republican political machine, was elected in the same cycle as disgraced, now-former Rep. George Santos, who flipped the neighboring 3rd Congressional District before being exposed as a serial fabulist. Santos pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft and wire fraud charges. Sentencing in that case is set for February.

As that scandal escalated, D’Esposito, in the state’s 4th Congressional District, emerged as one Santos’ chief critics. He called for his colleague to resign and, during a news conference with local GOP leaders which he joined remotely from the Capitol, made his home office available for constituent services to people in Santos’s district.

House Speaker Mike Johnson stood behind D’Esposito in comments to reporters Tuesday.

Even though Johnson said he has not spoken to D’Esposito yet and doesn’t know the details of the allegations, the speaker pointed to D’Esposito’s statement and added, “It’s a partisan hit piece that would not surprise anyone, and a tight election cycle in a seat that’s … hotly contested, but he’s been a very strong advocate for his district.”

Johnson added, “I know the people of his district, and they are, they’re great champions of him and he of them.”

House GOP Whip Tom Emmer deflected when asked about an ethics investigation by talking about this week’s critical funding bill.

Fellow New Yorkers were also silent in the wake of the report. GOP Rep. Marc Molinaro said he has spoken to D’Esposito but declined to comment further.

“I have, and I don’t comment on people’s personal lives,” Molinaro said.

When CNN asked D’Esposito’s fellow Long Islander, GOP Rep. Nick LaLota, about the report, he said he was on the phone.

D’Esposito recently welcomed former President Donald Trump to his district, where the GOP presidential nominee hosted a rally at the Nassau Coliseum for Long Island Republicans desperate to maintain their gains from 2022 in the New York City suburbs. New York Republicans flipped four seats in that election and won another close race further upstate in the midterms – providing a decisive boost to the GOP ranks as the party won a narrow majority.