Die GOP verdrängt Gonzales wegen Affäre, lässt aber Trumps sexuellen Missbrauch durchgehen: Es ist zwar gut, dass die Republikaner schnell reagieren, um die Handlungen des Abgeordneten Tony Gonzales zu verurteilen, aber es ist erstaunlich, dass die Partei so entschlossen vorgehen kann, während sie Präsident Donald Trump entschuldigt.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/03/11/tony-gonzales-drops-out-republicans-sexual-harassment/89005637007/
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>While it’s good that Republicans are acting swiftly to condemn Gonzales’ actions, it’s astonishing that the party can take such decisive action while excusing the actions of President Donald Trump, who was **found liable of sexual abuse** and whose relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is hardly being called into question by the party. The same man who **once bragged about** „grabbing women by the p—y“ yet was elected by a party that claims to be about protecting women.
You are forgetting that he is a „Gonzales“ after all. He may attend the event, but not sit at the table.
Signals to me that the Republican party is broken. It doesn’t have substance other than tax cuts. Fiscal responsibility is gone. True Christianity or the appearance of it is gone. It’s merely a royalist party now protecting selected royals.
The cognitive dissonance is staggering. Gonzales gets ousted for an affair while Trump has 34 felonies and multiple accusers. Party of morals everybody.
They don’t care that Trump raped kids. They’re not going to care about affairs.
It’s funny how the GOP moral high ground is only accessible by a ladder that conveniently breaks whenever a frontrunner is standing on it. Gonzales didn’t get ousted for breaking a commandment, he got ousted for being a replaceable incumbent in a primary runoff. Trump is the landlord of the party, so he gets to break the windows and still keep the security deposit.
When there are so many people fucking kids that the government would shut down, I’m thinking it’s time to overthrow the government.
Ridiculous headline. Ousted doesn’t mean what USA Today thinks it does.
Gonzales hasn’t been ousted; he’s just been encouraged to abandon his bid for reelection, free to serve out the rest of his term.
Immediately removing him from his office would be “decisive action”. This is just a politically convenient offramp, so they can replace him with someone else this fall.
Way to play down raping little girls…
Gonzales probably wishes he was famous enough to get away with it like Trump does. Celebrity protection is real.
Performative BS. Until he resigns or they vote to kick him out it means nothing. They will still count on his vote to maintain their razer thinn margin.
Trump was banging his secretary during the 2018 shutdown.
Astonishing? Is it really?
He is what we call a convenient scapegoat.
Oh, and also a „Gonzales“.
Swiftly?
Say it with me, it’s a cult.
Underlings can’t act like the cult leader with no repercussions. Only the cult leader can do that.
>The same week after Gonzales paused his campaign, Trump was [accused of sexually assaulting](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/05/donald-trump-epstein-files-allegations-00816123) a teenage girl in files released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of the Epstein probe. Yet there has been very little outrage over the president’s potential violent acts. I understand that the Republican Party is indebted to Trump, but the discrepancy is astounding.
Being a cult leader has its privileges.
>I hope conservative women are taking note of this hypocrisy and not letting political fervor cloud their judgment. They deserve all sex pests to be kicked out of their party, not just the ones who are easy to dispose of.
Without the sex pests (perverts), Republicans would be nothing.
Cult member versus cult leader 101
It wasn’t swift nor was he encouraged to leave by more than a handful of Republicans. Mike Johnson wanted him to stay so he didn’t lose his majority.
They’re cool with pedophiles, just not Hispanics fuckin grown women, that crazy ol’GOP
TBF, there is no evidence of anyone abused by or im a consensual sexual relationship with Donald having been burned alive.
Republicans never viewed this as a moral issue. He is being pushed out only because his reckless behavior would l8kely cost the Republican Party another congressional seat. This is done out of self interest, without any concern about morals or the welfare of the A.erican people. Many modern Republicans are sociopaths — zero concern for others in our society.
Vile is a more appropriate description than astonishing. The GOP is out and out vile.
A party that elects a convicted rapist as their president should not be expected to have any moral standards in its decisions
It makes them look like the good guys who deserve the moral high ground.
Despite the fact that they are the swamp, and that’s about as low as you can get.
drumpf could rape a 13-yr-old girl in the middle of fifth avenue and he wouldn’t lose any voters.
Horrible journalism. They did NOT act swiftly. Mike Johnson literally said he shouldnt resign and should let the primary runoff play out.
They’re ditching him now that he’s useless.
The bigger headline should be the house voted against releasing all congressional sexual harrassment and misconduct reports. Dems and republicans.
They didn’t oust him, he dropped out, and only after his mistress set herself on fire publicly. The Right is fully evil.
They worry about losing the election in that district. Trump has no more elections to run in.
But remember, they are **NOT** in a cult.
Trump is a rapist and pedo. I will never forgive these people for excusing such heinous crimes. Oh and he’s also a murderer and it’s been proven that 300,000 people died due to his doge USAID cuts. The man is a monster and anyone who supports him should live in shame for it.
Not astonishing