Republican Strategist Arrested For Sex Trafficking Minors

A Trump-loving Republican strategist from Minnesota has been arrested and charged with underage sex trafficking. The details of this story are as disgusting as they come, but this is more than just a scumbag off the streets - this young man was a major Republican donor and political player that has been photographed with both Donald Trump and Mike Pence. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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A wealthy Republican donor and strategist by the name of Anton Lazzaro was finally arrested by police this week and charged with underage sex trafficking. Let me read the charges against him here. The indictment accuses Lazzario, Lazzaro, of having recruited at least five underage victims for paid sex between May and December last year, and trying to entice a sixth. It also says he quote, knowingly and intentionally interfered with the investigation as it closed in on him. Lazzaro has been under investigation for a long time and ironically enough, a couple months ago, he came out after it had been leaked that he was under investigation for this, he said, listen, this isn't like a Matt Gaetz thing or anything here. Like, he actually was like, no, what Matt Gaetz did was bad. What I did was okay. So even he apparently thinks that Matt Gaetz did those horrible things. But either way, that's neither here nor there. Lazzaro is more than just a Republican donor. He's more than just a GOP strategist. He was selected as an alternate elector for Donald Trump in the state of Minnesota for the 2020 election.

He has been photographed with Donald Trump. He has been photographed with Mike Pence. This guy was at the heart of Republican politics in the state of Minnesota and has been giving money to Republican candidates for more than 10 years. He also, according to the reports, frequently flaunted his lavish wealthy exquisite lifestyle on his social media. And he's now currently being held in jail until a hearing next week, because the sixth, six victims say that they fear him. And so the court decided, yes, he may pose a danger to these six individuals. So we're not going to let you out while you await this hearing. The thing that sticks out to me about this story, other than how disgusting it is and how disgusting the Republican party is, is where the hell are the Q people on this, right? They're the ones who think the government is being run by a cabal of pedophiles yet time and time again, they're getting information about Republicans actually engaging, or at least selling people for underage sex. It's literally the conspiracy that the Q people think the Democrats are doing, except we're always seeing it happening on the Republican side.

So where the hell are they on this, huh? Are they going to update their little conspiracy or are they going to think this is another, just a deep state attempt, to get rid of a Republican opponent? Based on what we know from this, I think I can safely say at least that Anton Lazzaro is a friggin scumbag. And I hope he goes to jail for a long time for what he has done to these women. Of course the due process system gets to play itself out. If he can present evidence proving that he didn't do any of this, then sure, you get to go. No harm, no foul in that instance. But if what these allegations are accusing him of are accurate, then yeah, Lazzaro needs to go away for a long time. And any Republican that ever took money from him needs to be putting it back, donating it to charity, donating it to organizations that help sex trafficking victims. How about that Republicans? That is my challenge to you. And trust me, if you don't do that, very soon, we will start calling you out for not doing it.