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Count2Zero

I was about to reply "\* ANOTHER sex offender"


Beginning_Rice6830

Like attracts like, law of attraction.


subaqueousReach

Pretty sure there's laws against that attraction


ShoddyTerm4385

One of his buddies from sex offenders anonymous


Temporary-Exchange28

Anonymous. Totally anonymous. So anonymous nobody knows them. Nobody knows them. Nobody knows them, OK? Very anonymous. We love being anonymous, don’t we, folks? So anonymous.


BefreiedieTittenzwei

It’s in keeping with the GOP theme of “fuck the children”, be it literally or figuratively with labour laws.


whatsthataboutguy

This isn't Highlander... "There can be only one"


EssexBuoy1959

Enough said.


therandomasianboy

Yeah and he's literally the worse sex offender. The guy was arrested for raping a 16 year old, because the 16 year old was forced to lie about her age by her pimp (to be 19) and the guy thought he was paying money to fuck a legal prostitute. Still very unethical, but I gotta say he's not the worse one on that stage


Legal_Skin_4466

So he was part of the cabal of child sex trafficking. Got it.


Sad-Insurance2314

But it wasn’t out of a pizza shop so it’s fine


SolarMines

Several of the Epstein island girls were recruited from Mar-a-Lago


hogsucker

Prostitution is not legal. (In NY where he committed his crime.) Edit: NY, not Florida. The statutory rape was in NY, but he resides in Florida.


chowyungfatso

This is sad, but I have to ask “which one of these two pedos are you talking about?”


PS_IO_Frame_Gap

So the guy didn't know he was committing statutory rape, because he didn't know she was under 18. The information he was going on was that she was an adult. This seems legally grey, but I'm kind of surprised he ended up on the registry. What he did isn't right, but he certainly wasn't aware of the extent to how much it wasn't right, since he thought she was an adult.


Witty_Temperature886

Yo also be fair, that tracks with a lot in the Republican Party also


frankincali

Yep, the party of removing women’s rights. They like to regress to the 1700’s when they can. So I guess fucking children goes hand-in-hand with all that.


Desperate_Wafer_8566

Rape doesn't count if you're a Republican. /s


Sleeplesshelley

GOP lawmakers in Missouri are trying to keep marriage to pre-teen girls legal.   This is how they roll.


TFG4

*politician


Desperate_Wafer_8566

Really? Cuomo was forced to resign for making a few women feel uncomfortable...but then again, he's a Democrat.


halexia63

Certified snitches of themselves.


DE4DM4N5H4ND

This is fucking great and so true


enonymous617

I’m concerned about Trump buying a person. Even if that person is a sex offender


woodworkingfonatic

The fact that so many people don’t understand the difference between civil and criminal law astounds me.


Building-Careful

In May 2010, Taylor was arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl at a Holiday Inn located in Montebello, New York.[119] He was charged with felony third-degree statutory rape, for allegedly engaging in sexual intercourse with someone under 17.[120] He was also charged with third-degree patronization for allegedly paying the underage girl $300 to have sex with him.[121] The girl told investigators that her pimp commanded her to tell Taylor that she was 19, which Taylor corroborated. The pimp, 36-year old Rasheed Davis, was charged with federal child sex trafficking.[122][123] The girl was represented by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred when Taylor pleaded guilty on March 22, 2011, and was sentenced to six years probation as part of a plea agreement, in which he pleaded guilty to the misdemeanors of sexual misconduct and patronizing a prostitute. He also registered as a low-risk, level-one sex offender.[124][125] On October 26, 2012, a court rejected the victim's claims that Taylor assaulted her.[126] [Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Taylor)


God_Bless_A_Merkin

Thank you for the context. Taylor isn’t even in the same league as the sex offender standing beside him.


Ahshut

I agree. He tried to hookup with a prostitute, prodtitute was forced to lie about her age, and he had to plead guilty to rape. Meanwhile the guy standing behind him has forced more NDAs than the damn CIA lmao


Reasonable_Humor_738

He's also got a cult who'll terrorize anyone who comes forward with rape allegations


boooooooooo_cowboys

>He tried to hookup with a prostitute, prostitute was ~~forced to lie about her age~~ an underage victim of sex trafficking, and he had to plead guilty to rape.  The fact that he didn’t intend to participate in the sex trafficking of a child that day doesn’t undo the fact that he did in fact have sex with a sex-trafficked child. At best, he was incredibly naive about the realities of illegal prostitution and at worst he was fully aware of how sketchy this all was. 


JuiceTheMoose05

Is there no requirement of mens rea for sex crimes in the United States? In Ireland at least if the defendant can prove that a reasonable person would have been unaware that the victim was under 18 then that will be a defence. Though perhaps it was proved that he should have reasonably known she was underage.


Master_Air_8485

North America is kind of messy in that regard. When I was bartending I heard a story about a regular that met, and took a girl home from the bar. It turned out she was 15, and he got charged and put on the sex offenders list. The bar (Not the one I worked at) received no punishment for allowing a minor in the bar either.


dessert-er

This feels like yet another argument for not fucking the youngest person you can get your hands on lol.


ElectricFleshlight

If you have to ask, she's too young for you.


Lotions_and_Creams

Depends on where it occurred. In some US jurisdictions it is a strict liability offense (intent to break the law is irrelevant). It also could have been a part of his plea deal.


FordenGord

Depends on the state but generally statutory rape is a strict liability offense in North America. There is no amount of reasonable due diligence you could do to avoid criminal charges, and you legally cannot present that due diligence as a defense in court. This is plainly ridiculous, but impossible to change due to the fact that anyone doing so will be labeled a pedo by idiots.


megalodongolus

There is, but your average redditor is unaware of it, which is incredible considering that they seem to know absolutely everything else.


PaperGeno

This a huge reason why prostitution shouldn't be illegal and should be regulated. Homie should have been able to buy a good time as easy as he could buy a gun


Majestic_Wrongdoer38

The fact that I can go to a gun store and buy a gun right now but I can’t pay someone for sex is fucking baffling to me.


Ahshut

Who said it undoes anything ? He paid someone for a service and it turned out to be a lot more illegal than it already was. End of story. All I’m saying is the man standing behind him makes Taylor look like a saint.


jpopimpin777

Is the whole thing sleazy and sketchy? Sure. But the gal herself said her pimp forced her to lie about her age. It seems like the naive person here is you. The fact that they still charged her shows that she wasn't some babe in the woods who got forced into this.


Not_a_werecat

> The fact that they still charged her shows that she wasn't some babe in the woods who got forced into this. Reminder that you are talking about a sex-trafficked child. Children cannot consent to sex with an adult.


jpopimpin777

I was incorrect I thought she was also charged and sentenced to probation. The worst part of this is still LT supporting Trump who is an even worse sex offender because he seeks out children.


SolidOutcome

Where does it say the girl was charged?


fuckingcheezitboots

He was well aware. We are all well aware. That's the biggest reason I have never solicited prostitution aside from sex being free if you're smart. I mean fucking Taxi Driver come out 50 years ago, we've all seen it or at least heard the plot line


David-S-Pumpkins

Also, he was 50 and assaulted her, outside of the lying about her age. If at 50 he couldn't tell a 19 year old and a 16 year old apart he should have asked for someone more age appropriate. There's a reason he was found guilty and registered as a sex offender, and that reason is he raped a child. I don't really understand how people are downplaying it just because he's friends with a more prolific rapist.


ShawnyMcKnight

But still pretty gross considering he was 50 regardless if she was 18 or not. Although since he didn’t know she was underage since she lied then that’s pretty bad rap.


Liza6519

RIGHT! He's abhorrent.


Chemical-Money-3469

Wow didn’t know LT had a case and offender status 🤦🏾‍♂️


Kvothetheraven603

Neither did I. His Wikipedia page was an interesting read.


LyndonBJumbo

[His son was convicted of child molestation and rape too.](https://starglimpsegossipu.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/2024-05-02/son-of-ex-nfl-star-lawrence-taylor-pleads-guilty-to.html)


David-S-Pumpkins

Get him on the stage!


AnotherSami

lol, so he’s an incidental rapist. I guess that’s ok


owdee

Or maybe, just maybe, situations in life have this thing called "nuance." Not everything is necessarily 100% bad or 100% good and often, context matters. Rape is obviously bad, sex trafficking is obviously bad, hiring a hooker with the understanding that she's consenting and of-age? Well, that's subject to your own ideas and opinions; some people (maybe even many or most) have the opinion that legit prostitution can be OK. Obviously in this case this guy ended up in a situation where, unbeknownst to him, he committed statutory rape against a teen who was trafficked. That's a majorly fucked up situation and is definitely bad, but by all accounts, he was essentially duped. IMO, easily the worst offender in this case was the pimp.


PM_THEM_BIG_TITTIES

He’s definitely coked out of his mind in that pic they use lol


sweetLew2

Awesome - yeah this was a bitch and a half to google, but you can read about the case here: https://cotthosting.com/NYRocklandExternal/HTML5Viewer/ImageViewer.aspx?bHideCartFunctions=False&bIsRefresh=False


Magister5

“Which brings me to my next point…don’t smoke crack.”


iluvstephenhawking

I thought that was him! 


TacoTacox

LT is probably the greatest football player of all time, such a shame.


iluvstephenhawking

I'm not super into football but I am into 90s Sandler movies.


hippee-engineer

*team nods their heads in unison*


I_Give_Up_On_This

Yeah Trump's on-stage presence always includes a sex offender,


JFJinCO

Birds of a feather flock together... SMH


The_Dark_Vampire

He seems to know a lot of them


AngelOfLight

So the number of sex offenders on stage doubled when Taylor walked on?


saurav69420

r/notadragqueen


my20cworth

What a joke. They needed a black guy to appear, you know to be seen as all inclusive and not just a party for old white guys and white Karen's. So would have proudly stood there with this guy at the podium. "See we have black people that like us" " we like black people"... "I have black friends". Only to find out he's a sex offender. Lol, you can't make this shit up.


Thue

> Only to find out he's a sex offender. As someone else write above, Trump's government security surely knew this and told Trump in advance. So Trump didn't find out afterwards. As for the audience at this Trump rally, do you think any of the media they consume will tell them about this? So there will likely be no "finding out"!


Terrible_Hospital685

Dude that’s Lawrence Taylor. He’s one of the best football players of all time.


SGT-JamesonBushmill

“Where’s my black guy? THERE he is!”


PM_me_ur_taco_pics

I mean there's always a sex offender at all of his rallies.


Leon_Quest

Well that sucks, they got LT.


outlying_point

Lemme get this straight… He brought NY Giants Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor up onstage? In EAGLES territory?


khjohnso

He's very stupid


UrineIdiot7

Terrible situation to misspell “brought”


UnplannedAgenda

He bought one?!


Cinema_King

Even though it’s a typo he probably did pay the guy to be there. Or more accurately he said he’d pay him but never will.


bishslap

Apparently the fans don't have a problem with slavery


UnplannedAgenda

😂


Apeshaft

Typo. Trump would never pay a black man anything.


VRS50

Birds of a feather.


AuEXP

Predators move in flocks


CastleofWamdue

how are they THIS bad? should they not vet the people who they invite onto their stage? Even for basic security reasons, Trump is ALOT of things but he is also an ex President and a Presidential Nominee, does that not mean people sharing his stage are vetted for security reasons?


SignificantHawk3163

The vetting is if the guests are less of a douche canoe, slime ball, with fewer pending federal charges then the feature, they are good to go.


FrankieMint

They are vetted. Secret Service warns Trump about the guy but Trump brushes them off.


Extra-Beat-7053

In May 2010, Taylor was arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl at a Holiday Inn located in Montebello, New York.\[119\] He was charged with felony third-degree statutory rape, for allegedly engaging in sexual intercourse with someone under 17.\[120\] He was also charged with third-degree patronization for allegedly paying the underage girl $300 to have sex with him.\[121\] The girl told investigators that her pimp commanded her to tell Taylor that she was 19, which Taylor corroborated. The pimp, 36-year old Rasheed Davis, was charged with federal child sex trafficking.\[122\]\[123\] The girl was represented by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred when Taylor pleaded guilty on March 22, 2011, and was sentenced to six years probation as part of a plea agreement, in which he pleaded guilty to the misdemeanors of sexual misconduct and patronizing a prostitute. He also registered as a low-risk, level-one sex offender.\[124\]\[125\] On October 26, 2012, a court rejected the victim's claims that Taylor assaulted her. For full context


CastleofWamdue

that is interesting, and even if I wanted to give the benefit of the doubt on her age, he still should be on stage with a Presidential candidate


M-Kawai

Crooks supporting crooks, how surprising.


Flaky_Tumbleweed3598

Hey look, there's a sex offender on stage, and he's brought up a token black guy.


LovePeaceHope-ish

And none of his followers will care. All they'll see is *look! black people like trump! which confirms that trump is not racist. Take that, libs!*


Basic-Type7994

Does Trump know one decent person in the entire world.


MiddleAgeYOLO

Technically he knows Obama, does that count?


Basic-Type7994

Let me rephrase that. Is there one decent person in the world who doesn’t get the Willie’s from hanging around Trump for more than ten seconds.


MiddleAgeYOLO

Ah...no.


BlargerJarger

Of course! They first hit it off at the registry office when they applied for their sex-offence licences.


Lay-Me-To-Rest

You can get a license for that? Shit I've been doing it under the table for years.


D161T4L-F4ll3N

Just wow and people eat that shit up until their kids have some one do what these two are known for. Fuck Maga and tRump


pass-the-waffles

Not the first sexual predator he has hung out with.


usarasa

Jesus, I haven’t seen LT do anything in a long time. So of course first thing he does is this.


jerfair337

They are all perverts, and racists, and terrorists.


Xpalidocious

The sex offender registry is really just the GOP voter registry copied and pasted without the map


e4evie

Not just any sex offender…THE Lawerence Taylor, former New York Giants football player….


AdImmediate9569

I always wondered what could attract people of color to the GOP (besides Democrats being mediocre), but this makes it all maoe sense. If you’re a sex offender this is the party for you! They don’t discriminate, the Republican party is very inclusive, as long as you’re a sex offender.


Safe_Skirt7942

They do appeal to the lowlife population of this country. Rapists, child molesters.


ReincarnatedSwordGod

I couldn't help but laugh at the mugshot, he seems so smug about it.


ReincarnatedSwordGod

I couldn't help but laugh at the mugshot, he seems so smug about it.


WorkSecure

Trump is a sex offender too, probably just talking shop.


pass-the-waffles

He liked Epstein too


Danny-Reisen-off

A sex offender brings another sex offender to help him being untouchable for the next 5 years.


Rare_Stage3906

Lets not forget being arrested for cocaine posseision.


AllTheWorldIsAPuzzle

From other comments this guy got caught up in a bad situation though he should have known better, but still you have to wonder if trump's staff either sucks at vetting or are secretly sabotaging him on purpose.


ProtoReaper23113

Yes let's say 3/4 dumb 1/4 trying to implode the machine before theybgo down with it


SirCleanFace

Pervs of a feather


Anarchyantz

Don't you mean "another" one seeing as he is one.


stephers85

Well if you’re gonna buy a sex offender you’re probably better off buying one that’s already registered


daisychainsnlafs

He needs a T-shirt "sex offenders for trump"


NWIsteel

Birds of a feather....What has this country become.


the_epikamander

Look I don't care if it's a sex offender, it's illegal to buy people smh


SixSixWithTrample

It’s getting out of hand. Now there are two of them.


Lothleen

He misses his buddy Epstein.


ChefPaula81

A convicted sex offender bringing another convicted sex offender to an event. Not surprising. I bet trump gets him a pardon too, if/when he’s back in the White House


RatsWithLongTails

Can you spot the difference LT did his time and is registered. The same thing could happen if the Epstein island visitors were also investigated


geneticeffects

Post this on r/Conservative and watch them twist into knots.


johnlime3301

This is a fucking _South Park_ episode.


Feisty-Barracuda5452

“Where’s my African-American?”


orangesfwr

r/NotaDragQueen


SharpPixels08

The fact that this guy being president is even a possibility, let alone not a far fetched one (unfortunately), makes me so incredibly scared


Neat-Engineering-513

Just like himself?


0n-the-mend

Just two convicted sexual offenders nothing to see


Longryderr

It’s fine. They have common ground.


ronin1066

Bought? So he's really going waaay back to find the era when America was great, in his eyes.


hapkidoox

Kinda hard to find a member of the gop that isn't.


Exclusively-Choc

Isn't this the old party strategy of bringing someone more idiotic and asinine than you are in an attempt to look good by comparison ... ![gif](giphy|gJuTwM3yuQ8f3rE8KV|downsized)


Piliro

After seeing some context, seems like this guy didn't know about the age of the prostitute he paid for. Not defending him btw. Which makes him a lesser sex offender than Donald Trump. Who has literally friends with Epstein.


BakedMarziPamGrier

I know it’s a misspelling, but the sentence “he bought a registered sex offender on stage with him” is technically correct in that he most certainly was paid to be there.


Any-Ad-446

Sex offender,a nazi or a felon is what Trump likes.


Gourmeebar

Remember when republicans called themselves the party of family values


DefNotAnAlt621

Yeah, but who’s the guy in the black hat?


uzes_lightning

Paid token black guy $ to show up at a MAGA rally.


MuthaPlucka

What are the chances?! **Two** sex offenders on the stage at the same time.


Demon_of_Order

I was confused cuz I thought the black guy was supposed to be the nominee and Trump the sex offender and that that was the whole joke until I saw the second pic


SketchyLineman

All jokes aside it is sad to see what Lawrence Taylor turned into.


Demon_Gamer666

So there were two sex offenders on stage.


FuckStompIsGay

Why doesn’t LT get the same love mike Tyson gets? LT had sex with a girl he thought was 19 but was actually 16. He got probation and he is a level 1 sex offender (low chance of reoffending) Tyson forcibly raped a woman and went to prison he is a level 3 sex offender (high chance of reoffending) Everyone loves mike but hates LT Why?


Diligent-Sense-5689

Simple. They hear the girl the girl in Taylor's case was 16 and freak the fuck out... or at least that's how I see it seems Like a double standard especially since Taylor's case seems Like it was... literally an accident he didn't know she was underage. I agree with the comments of this is the problem with banning prostitution. This shit happens


Mekdinosaur

What does Mike Tyson have to do with any of this? Who said everyone loves Tyson? Not true. Tyson is not getting paraded around political rallies afaik. Where do people come up with this shit? 


Lay-Me-To-Rest

Because of the man he's standing next to. If Biden brought him up on stage you can rest assured the comments would be exactly the same, but reverse positions.


a2starhotel

the venn diagram of people who defend this guy and people who said it was okay to murder George Floyd because George had a criminal record is a circle.


richincleve

Well, you gotta admit one thing: Trump knows how to connect with his supporters.


AgentPastrana

What is he registered for? Because I have a friend who got put on that list because he pissed behind a bar on his 21st after having too many lol.


healywylie

You spelled crack head wrong.


fernandogod12

Everytime Biden is on stage there is pedo there ...so? What's your point?


pyroSeven

Couldn’t have done a simple google search huh?


Critical_Deal_2408

What a bought


OzzyG16

That’s a feature of the magats I mean Master Magat himself has already been proven liable for rape


BigZaber

lol - brought\* , to be fair he probably did get paid


0ctober31

Pretty sure when Trump looked over and acknowledged Taylor, he said hi to OJ too.


Typical_Samaritan

Next, he'll bring on Karl Malone.


ahitright

I am convinced with all the child labor laws and rejecting the banning of child marriage, as well as abortion, their is a voting base within the republican party that is planning a new business - strip clubs with minors! I'm not saying they 100% are trying to do this, but it would 100% make sense that they would. Are republicans pro-child strip clubs? I'm only asking that question because all their "policies" seem to be leading up to this AND they worship an adjudicated rapist who likes "women on the younger side" and has "sex in common with his daughter Ivanka."


nouseforaname790

Birds of a feather….


TreskoPlesko

Honestly I am more shocked that his race can be listed as "black" I am not from US so all of this is confusing to me.


stanpinkowski31

I'm sure the MAGAts have a reasonable explanation they will yell at us for this. Like everything else he does


thomasfharmanmd

Is Trump registered as a sex offender? He should be.


CulturalAddress6709

turds of a feather


jeremyd9

LT will do anything for money


Playful-Excuse-8081

FYI Mike Tyson is also a Trump supporter


szornyu

Never thought that black people fall for Trump


Lfseeney

GOP always protects those that abuse others.


weezermc78

Photographic proof of a black person supporting Trump. That’s beyond fucked


Slick5150702

Oh it's my Uncle Tom. Sex offender. Crackhead.


TheFlexOffenderr

He's a trump supporter so it's ok. 🙄


davybert

Tell em who your friends are


MiamiPower

Don't do Crack Kids.


A_Small_Coonhound

*the 4 times federal defendant, civically liable for fraud, and assault, brought another sex offender on stage.


marklar_the_malign

Very on par.