Christian Ziegler mentioned in heavily redacted police documents that includes the word ‘raped’, reports say

The chairman of Florida’s Republican party, Christian Ziegler, is reported to be under investigation for sexual battery – a potential political bombshell in a state that Donald Trump and Governor Ron DeSantis call home.

According to heavily redacted police department documents, Ziegler is mentioned in the context of an “active criminal investigation” after an individual reported being “sexually battered” at home in Sarasota on 2 October.

The detective’s report mentions a “sexual assault allegation” and “sexual assault complaint” but almost no other information. Only five words survive the redactions: “stated … raped … stated that … raped”, according to Sarasota’s Herald-Tribune and other outlets.

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    8 months ago

    All the qualifications you need to be a warrior against the lgbt+ community, and stop their insidious child molesting ways, is to have raped/sexual assaulted someone, apparently.

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    8 months ago

    This makes him qualified to be the Pussy-Grabber-In-Chief’s VP pick.

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    The unidentified accuser told cops she and Florida Republican Party Chairman Christian Ziegler, along with Ziegler’s wife, Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, had been in a “longstanding consensual three-way sexual relationship prior to the incident,” reported the Florida Center for Government Accountability (FLCGA), which first obtained the document. Source

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      8 months ago

      Grown adults can do whatever they want behind closed doors … as long as it’s consensual. Anything beyond that is, in fact, rape.

      If the accusation is true I hope he gets his ass kicked down the road.

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    Republicans: 30+

    Drag queens: 0

    Oh, and his wife is the one of the Co-leads for Moms for liberty.

    His wife, Bridget Ziegler, is a founder of Moms for Liberty (M4L), the parental rights organization that has been at the forefront of efforts to ban or require parental consent for certain LGBTQ+

    And apparently, bi, or getting cheated on by a bi couple.

    Sources told the publication that the woman accusing Ziegler “alleged that she and both Zieglers had been involved in a longstanding consensual three-way sexual relationship prior to the incident” and that the incident occurred when Ziegler and the woman were alone at the woman’s house.

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    8 months ago

    It’s really sad that when I read “political bombshell” “raped” and “Republican” my immediate thought is that it won’t affect the polls at all.