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In the only televised debate for South Carolina’s Republican U.S. Senate runoff, Sen. Darline Graham Nordone said she “is not that informed on national security” when asked a question about Taiwan and the South China Sea.
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Republican Brandon Herrera is leading Democrat Katy Padilla Stout in the race for Texas’s 23rd Congressional District, an exclusive poll obtained by Breitbart News revealed.
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Why Are White Liberal Women Identifying With A Child Murderer?

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,

Three innocent children are dead. Their mother has admitted killing them. And yet a growing chorus of white liberal women on TikTok and beyond is racing to cast her as the real victim, pouring money into her family’s fundraiser and filming themselves relating to the confessed killer while cradling their own babies.

Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children – Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, then 8 months – with exercise bands in the basement of the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts home on January 24, 2023. She then cut her wrists and neck and jumped from a second-story window, leaving herself paralyzed and wheelchair-bound.

Her defense does not dispute that she killed the children. Attorney Kevin Reddington has told the court she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was not criminally responsible. Prosecutors maintain she acted intentionally, rationally, and with premeditation.

?? UPDATE — A GoFundMe linked to Lindsay Clancy has reached nearly $900,000 from over 27,000 contributors after she admitted murdering her three children.
Clancy’s attorney described her future as one of daily grief over the killings she committed.
Supportive comments on the… pic.twitter.com/K3ecHakgze
— The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) August 18, 2026

The trial is ongoing in Plymouth Superior Court; the prosecution recently rested after calling more than 70 witnesses, and the defense is now presenting its case, including testimony from Clancy’s mother about her daughter’s mental decline and pleas for help.

Three children are dead.
Lindsay Clancy killed them. That is the central fact of this case.
Her defense is arguing postpartum psychosis and that the medical system failed her. Her mother testified about her mental decline, the anxiety, the suicidal thoughts, the medications… pic.twitter.com/DzjKM3deQg
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) August 18, 2026

None of that has stopped the online transformation of a triple child murder into a cause for certain women. Clancy’s parents, Mike and Paula Musgrove, have a GoFundMe that has rocketed past $900,000 – approaching $1M from more than 27,000 donors – with a $2 million goal.

The money is framed as covering the couple’s travel, lodging, and living costs after they relocated from Connecticut to stand by their daughter through the proceedings. Supportive comments on the page frequently emphasize her mental-health struggles more than the three dead children. Funds are earmarked for the parents’ ongoing costs during the trial.

Critics note that crowdfunding platforms have rules against funding criminal defense, and some have called for the campaign to be reported. Others see the outpouring as further evidence that large numbers of women are prioritizing gender solidarity over the basic reality that three children were murdered by their own mother.

That solidarity has spilled into TikTok in especially unsettling ways. Women have posted videos declaring Clancy the winner of a trial that is still underway, claiming she “proved” postpartum psychosis the moment she killed her children. The jury has not decided anything. The judge has not ruled on the central question of criminal responsibility. Yet creators speak as if the outcome is already settled in her favor.

TikTok feminists are already declaring Lindsay Clancy the winner of her murder trial… claiming she “proved” postpartum psychosis the moment she killed her 3 children.
The problem?
The jury hasn’t decided a single thing.
The judge hasn’t ruled on anything.
The trial is still… pic.twitter.com/UajaVQ7mFG
— International MAGA News. (@MagaIntNews13) August 18, 2026

Others go further, insisting Clancy is actually innocent despite her own admissions, her lawyer’s opening statements, her husband’s 911 call in which he screamed that she had killed the kids, and the civil lawsuit she filed against her therapists that explicitly acknowledges she killed her own children.

Some have hung out windows or filmed themselves in performative displays to argue her innocence. One widely circulated reaction asked whether these women are bored, lonely, or simply completely detached from reality.

Retards are hanging out their windows to try to prove Lindsay Clancy is innocent despite the fact she has already admitted to murdering her children.
Are women bored and lonely or just retarded? pic.twitter.com/45edakwVK0
— Retard Finder (@IfindRetards) August 18, 2026

The pattern is familiar to observers of recent high-profile cases: a refusal to accept female accountability when the facts are inconvenient. As one commentator noted, it does not matter to this cohort that Clancy admitted the murders, just as it did not matter that Amber Heard admitted lying about abuse. The priority is that women not be held fully responsible.

It doesn’t matter to them that Lindsay Clancy admitted to murder.
Just like it doesn’t matter that Amber Heard admitted to lying about being abused and admitted to being the abuser.
They don’t want justice for victims, they don’t care about victims. They want women not to be… https://t.co/HgcH6oiBZE
— Becky?????? (@JustBotBecky) August 18, 2026

Even more alarming are the videos in which mothers film themselves relating to Clancy while holding their own infants. Women have recorded themselves discussing identification with the child killer while cradling babies.

Bad enough to “relate” to a child killer. To do it while holding your baby is, to put it mildly, an alarming decision. pic.twitter.com/AyVCtxyBPQ
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 18, 2026

What does she mean “when I wished it would?”
This looks corny and performative and very “I’m a single mom” pic.twitter.com/KJoepzrsTT
— Luka (@LukaLev) August 18, 2026

Critics have called the decision to film such material with children an alarming one, with some arguing it should prompt child protective services involvement.

Report her to CPS, the child is in danger. pic.twitter.com/qwMIAH7whQ
— Kangmin Lee | ??? (@kangminlee) August 18, 2026

This disturbing AI video has been circulated widely on TikTok:

OUR WOMEN ARE NOT OK
Open up the asylums. Open them now. pic.twitter.com/ga2o8UbRpG
— Luka (@LukaLev) August 17, 2026

One single mother went further still, asserting that any man who believes Clancy should go to prison for murdering her children probably abuses his wife. She added that she is “just waiting for some man out there to prove to me that there are some good ones.”

Single mom says any man who thinks Lindsay Clancy, who admitted to murdering her kids, should go to prison probably abuses their wife.
“I’m just waiting for some man out there to prove to me that there are some good ones.”
Ma’am, you need a man so he can take your phone away. pic.twitter.com/uIK1fwQrZc
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 18, 2026

The response was swift and withering: the women who claim to be searching for good men are often the same ones who date the worst of them, and the demand that men prove themselves by refusing to call a child killer a child killer is a particularly inverted form of accountability.

Clancy’s defense attorney admitted in opening statements that she killed her children. She has filed a lawsuit against her therapists that also admits the killings. Her husband testified about the night he discovered the bodies and about a later phone call in which she described hearing a man’s voice telling her that if she did not act she would lose her chance.

Lindsey Clancy’s defense attorney admitted that she killed her children in opening statements
Clancy has also filed a lawsuit against her therapists that explicitly admits that she killed her own children.
That hasn’t stopped the conspiratards. pic.twitter.com/8YvYAFIGDb
— Douglass Mackey (@douglassmackey) August 17, 2026

None of this has deterred the conspiracy theories that the husband somehow framed her, or the broader insistence that the medical system alone is to blame and that Clancy herself bears no criminal responsibility that should result in prison.

Here’s an example. This has 396k likes. https://t.co/43Avr9IWIW pic.twitter.com/uahrdXsqbP
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 16, 2026

Mental illness is real. Postpartum psychosis is real and can be considered at sentencing. But it does not erase what happened. Three children are dead because their mother killed them. That is the central, undisputed fact of the case.

The spectacle of women identifying with the killer, fundraising for her parents at near-million-dollar levels, and filming themselves relating to her while holding their own kids reveals something deeper than sympathy for mental illness. It reveals a cultural refusal, concentrated among a particular demographic of women, to prioritize murdered children over a narrative of female victimhood.

Tyler Durden
Wed, 08/19/2026 – 13:05

Members of a U.S. Marshals task force surrounding the Missouri home of a convicted sex offender suddenly plunged to the ground when the elevated deck beneath them collapsed as they attempted to serve a warrant, startling video shows.The officers had gathered on the deck at the rear of the home when it suddenly gave way, sending several members of the task force tumbling to the ground below.The subject of the warrant, Jacob Alexander Munoz, 26, was taken into custody later that day, the U.S. Marshals Service said.DEPUTY US MARSHAL FATALLY SHOT WHILE SERVING ARREST WARRANT IN LOUISIANAThe Marshals Service said those injured in the collapse are doing well, though some face a longer recovery and could experience lasting effects.”We expect some long-term effects of this incident for a couple of our TFOs [task force officers] and DUSMs [deputy U.S. Marshals] but nothing that will keep them from continuing the mission of the USMS,” the agency said.The Randolph County Sheriff’s Office obtained a state warrant in June or July after Munoz, who had been registering as a sex offender following his release, allegedly stopped complying with the terms and conditions of his release, according to the Marshals Service.The Missouri State Highway Patrol Sex Offender Registry currently lists Munoz as a Tier 1 sex offender. His most recent offense is listed as possession of child pornography involving more than 20 images or one film or video.The registry lists the offense date as March 16, 2020, when Munoz was 20 years old, and identifies the victim as a girl between the ages of 9 and 13. The offense occurred in Randolph County, Missouri.Munoz was convicted in 2022, according to the Marshals Service.FBI NABS MORE THAN 350 ALLEGED CHILD SEX ABUSE OFFENDERSLocal police had seen multiple guns inside Munoz’s home during an earlier search in 2020, the Marshals Service said.That search was conducted to seize electronic devices and led to the charges that resulted in Munoz’s 2022 conviction, according to the agency.The task force was serving the warrant as part of Operation Adam’s Watch, a nationwide U.S. Marshals effort targeting fugitives whose original charges involved sex crimes.The operation marked the 20th anniversary of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act.

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of killing George Floyd, has again filed a petition to vacate his state murder conviction.On Tuesday, attorneys representing Chauvin filed a motion requesting the Minnesota Court of Appeals to stay his current appeal.Essentially, Chauvin wants the court to pause that appeal so he can send his case back to the local trial court to argue a brand-new claim that his original charges were unlawfully brought against him.NYPD COP FOUND GUILTY OF CHOKEHOLD IN FIRST CONVICTION SINCE RESTRAINT TACTIC BANNED AFTER GEORGE FLOYD DEATHIn April 2021, Chauvin was convicted of the 2020 murder of George Floyd. Records show the former officer kneeled on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds while Floyd was face down and handcuffed on the ground; Floyd suffered a fatal lack of oxygen to the brain.📩 Send me a story idea: kelsie.cairns@fox.com📸 Instagram: kelsiecairns_tv🎥 Facebook: Kelsie CairnsALEX MURDAUGH’S DOUBLE MURDER CONVICTION UNANIMOUSLY OVERTURNED BY SOUTH CAROLINA SUPREME COURTFOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON XBack in June, Chauvin’s team filed an appeal against a judge’s decision denying his petition for post-conviction relief.SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWSThe judge denied Chauvin’s entire post-conviction petition on May 1, more than five months after it was initially filed in November 2025. This is Chauvin’s third petition for conviction relief.LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORESEND US A TIP”Mr. Chauvin became aware of additional violations of Mr. Chauvin’s due process rights in the unlawful assignment of authority by Governor Tim Walz to Attorney General Keith Ellison to prosecute State v. Chauvin,” the motion said.VANCE REFERS TIM WALZ, MINNESOTA ATTORNEY GENERAL TO DOJ FOR CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION OVER STATE’S ALLEGED FRAUDThe Tuesday motion asks the court to pause Chauvin’s pending appeal so the trial court can evaluate new procedural claims—including improper prosecutor assignment, failure to convene a grand jury, lack of court jurisdiction, and judicial bias—which his defense argues amount to non-waivable “structural errors.”LISTEN TO THE NEW ‘CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO’ PODCASTFox News Digital has reached out to the Minnesota Attorney General for comment.GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he is nominating Heidi Overton, deputy assistant for domestic policy, as the next FDA commissioner.Overton, a physician, is known for her pro-life views and Trump said she has been a “ROCKSTAR” in his administration so far.”Dr. Overton will continue putting AMERICA FIRST, and creating a HEALTHY AMERICA,” Trump said in a Truth Social post.This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

President Trump on Wednesday announced the nomination of a new FDA Commissioner.
Trump nominated pro-MAHA Dr. Heidi Overton to replace Acting Commissioner Kyle Diamantas.
In May, Dr. Marty Makary resigned as FDA Commissioner.
Dr. Heidi Overton previously worked with RFK Jr and Dr. Oz to “deliver on the most transformative health agenda in history,” Trump said.
Full statement from President Trump:
Today I am honored to nominate the wonderful Dr. Heidi Overton, MD, PhD, as our next FDA Commissioner.
Dr. Heidi has been a ROCKSTAR in my Administration, where she has worked directly with Secretary Kennedy, Dr. Oz, and team, to deliver on the MOST TRANSFORMATIVE Health Agenda in History.
She is known to take on the HARDEST issues, and bring me solutions that work best for the Country. Heidi is “ALWAYS RIGHT,” Secretary Kennedy recently said in the Oval Office! We need her leadership at the FDA now to ensure that the U.S. remains the WORLD LEADER for Scientific Discovery and CURES.
Dr. Overton was a prestigious White House Fellow in my First Term, is a Board-Certified Physician in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine, and holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Investigations from the Johns Hopkins University. She is SMART and RESPECTED by all!
Dr. Heidi will work with Secretary Kennedy and Dr. Oz to RAPIDLY deliver on my priorities of FASTER Cures, INCREASED American Innovation, MAJOR Clinical Trial Reforms, LOWER Drug Prices, and even more MAHA WINS!
Dr. Overton will continue putting AMERICA FIRST, and creating a HEALTHY AMERICA. Congratulations to Dr. Heidi Overton! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Allison Roberts
A Christian mom is suing Portland Public Schools after officials barred her from her children’s elementary school for a year in alleged retaliation for criticizing its transgender policies.
“What the district said was, ‘Be quiet, or we will take your children away from you,’ essentially—at eight hours a day, nine months out of the year, you’re going to essentially take my children from me,” Allison Roberts, the mother, told the Daily Signal in an interview Friday.
Roberts has an elder child who graduated from Meriwether Lewis Elementary School more than a decade ago, and two younger children who both attended the school in the 2025-2026 school year. Yet she missed her son’s graduation from the school this year because police issued a trespass order against her based on what she alleges was a false principal report aimed at silencing her speech against transgender policies.
Roberts is suing Portland Public Schools; the district’s senior director of schools, Chandra Wilson-Cooper; and Lewis Elementary’s principal, Deanne Froehlich. She claims the defendants violated her First Amendment right to free speech by retaliating against her speech and discriminating against her based on her viewpoint, and violated her First Amendment right to free exercise of religion by imposing transgender ideology.

Allison Roberts became concerned when a Portland elementary school added an Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag to school benches and her eleven-year-old child received an “identity flower” assignment.
When she sought information from @PPSconnect and distributed letters to… pic.twitter.com/T8oZoaX53S
— Liberty Justice Center (@LJCenter) August 19, 2026

The ‘Identity Flower’
The case traces back to October, when Roberts’ 11-year-old child brought home an “identity flower” assignment from the pro-transgender group GLSEN.
According to the GLSEN lesson plan for the assignment, teachers instruct students to list their “gender identity” in the flower’s “gender” petal. It instructs teachers to explain to students, “You may identify as a girl or a boy. If you don’t feel like a boy or a girl, you might just identify as a person. Maybe none of these words feel like you today. Or maybe you feel like a girl or a boy today, but later that word doesn’t seem to fit.”
After a meeting with the principal, her child’s teacher, and a counselor produced no real answers or results, Roberts drafted an open letter to the school community in January. She stood on the public sidewalk outside the front of the school, distributing the letter.
The Trespass Order
On Feb. 5, while picking up her kids from school, Roberts spoke with another mother and her husband, according to the lawsuit. After Roberts revealed that she had voted for President Donald Trump, the husband reportedly shouted, “White people are disgusting!” Roberts told him that he was being racist and left the area.
The next morning, police served Roberts with a trespass order.
Froehlich, the principal, said the school was banning Roberts from campus for one year for “threatening and intimidating members of the school community.”
The order states that “during dismissal, a parent approached another parent and began engaging in racial harassment, intimidation, and threatening behavior.”
Froehlich and Wilson-Cooper, the school district’s senior director of schools, sent an email to the student body the same day.
“During dismissal, a parent approached another parent and began engaging in racial harassment, intimidation, and threatening behavior,” the email stated. “Unfortunately, this is not the first time this individual has made Lewis families and students feel unsafe. Over the past several months, we have observed a pattern of racial animus and harassment targeting vulnerable members of our community.”
The email went on to state that “hate speech and discriminatory behavior have no place at Lewis.” Roberts denies the allegations and argues that the school falsely characterized her speech.
Threat of Future Action
Roberts penned another open letter to the community. In response, Wilson-Cooper sent an email noting that the letter “specifically names Lewis staff and Lewis community members.”
“This is continued harassment which was the basis of your trespass on February 6, 2026,” the school district leader wrote. “I am sending you this as a written warning to cease all forms of harassment towards any Lewis community and staff members to include written, physical and verbal interactions.”
“Failure to comply with these expectations may result in an extension of your trespass including up to indefinitely and/or across all [Portland Public Schools] campuses.”
Roberts argues that this warning effectively threatened her with permanent exile from the school if she continued criticizing district officials.
Roberts responded with a series of questions, including, “Am I prohibited from discussing Principal Froelich with another parent? Am I prohibited from speaking about Lewis Elementary at a grocery store, on a sidewalk, online, or in a private text message? I am asking PPS to distinguish harassment from protected public speech.”
First Amendment Violations
The lawsuit claims Froelich and the school district violated Roberts’ First Amendment rights through retaliation, discrimination, and by imposing transgender policies with no opt-out provision.
“For time immemorial, going back to the Revolutionary War era, public participation by handing out pamphlets or letters on the sidewalk is something that is afforded the highest constitutional scrutiny and protection,” Timothy Snowball, senior counsel for the Liberty Justice Center’s PARENTS Initiative and Roberts’ attorney, told the Daily Signal in an interview Friday.
He emphasized that the school district characterized Roberts’ speech as “hate speech,” even though the Constitution recognizes no such category. “They made very clear through that statement and other statements that their actions were motivated by what she was saying.”
He also noted that Roberts is challenging the school district’s transgender policies, citing the Supreme Court precedent Mahmoud v. Taylor (2025), which upheld parents’ religious freedom to raise their kids according to their faith.
“Portland is not exempt from the Constitution,” Snowball noted.
Portland Public Schools did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.
[Editor’s note: This story originally was published by The Daily Signal.]

Adam Copeland shared a list of famous venues he wanted to compete in during the next stage of the year earlier this month. The All Elite Wrestling (AEW) star included Arena México in the bullet points as well as Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto and Tokyo Dome in Japan.Copeland received his chance to compete at Arena México on Aug. 5 when AEW held Grand Slam Mexico at the facility. He competed in an eight-man tag team match with Christian Cage and Matt and Nick Jackson.COMPLETE PRO WRESTLING COVERAGE ON OUTKICKIt was the first match of the night and the arena exploded when Alter Bridge’s “Metalingus” blared through the speakers. It was so loud that AEW commentator Tony Schiavone said on his “What Happened When” podcast he never experienced a pop like that in his career.Copeland told Fox News Digital that it was the loudest reaction he felt since he was in WWE and made his return to the ring at the 2020 Royal Rumble.”He had text me. He goes, ‘I’ve never heard anything like that in my years.’ And that’s saying something, which Schiavone’s heard some stuff, you know, so I was like, ‘Whoa, man.’ And I knew even that night, as I came out, it was one of those where you kind of leave your body for a second and you’re there, but you’re kind of somewhere else soaking it in,” Copeland told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. “I don’t know how to explain it. The only other time that that’s happened was at the (2020) Rumble when I came back.”So, I feel like those two and I mean, I’m very, very blessed and lucky that in this comeback I’ve had a lot of really great reactions, and the fans have really come out to support and I think also understand like, ‘Hey, this ain’t supposed to be happening and this is limited so we better enjoy it while we got it kind of thing,’ and me too. But that one was special. I put a post and I could feel it in my bones like it felt like I was the Memorex guy in that commercial. Like it blew my hair back. I was just like oh whoa. It’s so much to process it.”ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!Copeland admitted that one of the toughest parts of the night was to come down from the electric crowd afterward.He said he had to try to find something to get him to relax so he could finally fall asleep.”The hardest thing about a night like that is back in the hotel after because you’re wired for sound,” he said. “You’re just like … now and I’ve found that I now have to do things to kind of go, right, OK, wrestling’s gone now. Let’s, I don’t know, I’ll watch an episode of ‘Northern Exposure’ or I’ll like, you know, just try and bring down the fight or flight that kind of reaction, you know, it hits you in the heart, man, in a very good way. But you also want to be able to sleep. So yeah, that that’s what I’ve always found is the battle.”But yeah, man. I mean, you can’t have a night like that and just be thankful, for all of it and thankful that people this far along still remember or care. And I think it’s one of those kind of reciprocal things where Mexico knows I wasn’t there for 18 years and chances are I’m not getting back. And I’m not, so I think we all kind of understand, let’s enjoy this thing, man because I’m getting to wrestle in Arena Mexico for the first and last time. That’s fun. That’s fun.”Copeland and Cage are set to take on The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson) for the AEW World Tag Team Championship at All In – the biggest event on the AEW calendar.They captured the tag titles at Double or Nothing in a tag team I Quit match at Double or Nothing.Copeland and Cage, whose real name is Jay Reso, started Pure Plank nearly two years ago in an effort to help others get healthy.Copeland told Fox News Digital he still has people coming up to him thanking him for helping them to get healthy.”When you start to help people find a path to getting healthier, you can knock a path down, but whether people get on the path is up to them, right? We just assumed with planking it’s a path that doesn’t seem too demoralizing or too intimidating,” he said. “It’s like, no, you just get down to 30 seconds. Start there. Start with 30 and anybody can start with 30 seconds and that’s going to be hard at first and then move on.”And hopefully the trickle-down effect from that is I’m feeling better, right? I’m not carrying that kettlebell full of gut anymore. Now I could incorporate a full workout. Now I could incorporate yoga. Now I could incorporate whatever you want to try and incorporate. I could kayak now. I can this. I can that. To me, it’s kind of like the gateway and planking was the gateway for Jay and I to get back in shape except this is a positive of gateway.”

A sitting House Democrat who’s being investigated over sexual relations with a congressional aide is now being accused of assault.One of the women interviewed by the House Ethics Committee for its probe into Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., is disputing his account of a “consensual” affair in what her lawyers are calling a “brazen” example of misconduct.”We represent one of the women who was interviewed by the House Committee on Ethics about her experience of sexual harassment and assault by Representative Jimmy Gomez. Contrary to Representative Gomez’s assertion in his statement, his actions were not ‘consensual in nature’ with respect to our client,” the woman’s lawyers said in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital.HOUSE BACKS MASSIE’S PUSH TO RELEASE TAXPAYER-FUNDED SEXUAL HARASSMENT SETTLEMENT RECORDS”We fully expect that the House Committee on Ethics will come to the same conclusion in its investigation.”Gomez admitted to making “mistakes outside [his] marriage” in a statement to Fox News Digital earlier this week after the House’s internal watchdog announced it was probing him for misconduct.GOP LAWMAKER’S GIFTS, ‘EFFUSIVE AFFECTION’ TOWARD YOUNG STAFFERS DETAILED IN EXPLOSIVE ETHICS REPORTHe said on Monday, “Although my actions were consensual in nature and haven’t violated the law or House Ethics rules, that doesn’t diminish the impact that these mistakes have made on those I care about the most.”But the woman’s lawyers said Wednesday that it is “just the latest example of brazen sexual misconduct by a member of Congress.””Congress must act to rein in its members who seem to believe that preying on young women working on Capitol Hill is one of the perks of their job. We will continue to work with our client and with the House Committee on Ethics to ensure there is accountability for Representative Gomez and a safe path for any other survivors to come forward and share their experiences,” the lawyers said.Fox News Digital reached out to Gomez’s office for a response.He’s the latest House lawmaker to be accused of improper relations with a member of congressional staff. His former ally, ex-Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., saw his gubernatorial campaign derailed earlier this year amid allegations of rape.Reps. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, and Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., both dropped their re-election bids amid backlash over sexual harassment accusations.