Remember Dennis Hastert [View all]

Speaker of the House . The man was two heartbeats away from the Presidency. He was on TV all the time. News articles, Sunday political TV talk shows. Photos of him in the Oval Office with George W. Bush. All along, he was a pedophile. He was at 9/11 commemorations, at every State of the Union. Longest serving republican speaker of the house. Pedophile.

When the story broke. NOTHING. The press didn’t stalk him or camp out at his house. No commentary about the moral decay of the Republican Party. In fact I think it was forgotten or not mentioned that he was a Republican. It just struck me as so odd that this wasn’t a national scandal that the media didn’t spend 6 months doing stories about it. Barely a peep out of the media. Oh yeah and Dennis Hastert tried to get the hush money back that he paid one of the boys for breaking the contract.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/disturbing-details-dennis-hasterts-alleged-sex-abuse-revealed/story?id=38252730

Disturbing Details of Dennis Hastert's Alleged Sex Abuse Revealed

Federal prosecutors late tonight revealed disturbing, new details about alleged decades-old sexual abuse by former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and his purported efforts to lie about it when confronted by the FBI, according to court documents.

The 26-page filing accuses the man who was once second in line for the Presidency of a series of sexual encounters with four minors when Hastert was a high school wrestling coach in Illinois in the late 1960s and 1970s.

In one such incident, prosecutors say Hastert molested one of his wrestlers, identified as Individual A, in a motel room during a wrestling camp trip, using the guise of a massage to inappropriately touch the boy.