Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger released an illegal alien rapist…... Three days later he sexually assaulted another woman. Now she’s facing mass calls to resign. Should she be fired? 🔥👀 #FireSpanbergershow more

SEX TRAFFICKER CAUGHT: Jose Armando Carcamo-Perdomo, an illegal alien... from Honduras, was caught dragging a trafficked woman back to captivity. According to local reports, Jose Armando Carcamo-Perdomo “kept the sex-trafficking victim hostage for five days without food or water — while he beat her and sexually assaulted her.” President Trump and Secretary Kristi Noem will bring down the full force of the U.S. government on monsters like Carcamo.show more

🚨 HOLY CRAP! A man has been charged in... Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D)'s Virginia for s*xually assaulting and m*rdering a 2-year-old girl — and he's an ILLEGAL ALIEN from MEXICO, per Fox's Bill Melugin It's BETRAYAL to invite monsters like this into our country and let them run wild! 😡 This is why they ALL must go back, BEFORE any "new crimes" are committed The crime reportedly occurred in Louisa County, and the man's name is Raul Genesis Ortiz Moran. He's in ICE custody. Frankly, he needs capital punishment.show more

🚨 UPDATE: Democrat-appointed California Judge Nichelle Holmes faces MASS... calls to be removed and HELD LIABLE for the criminal illegal alien she released m*rdering a US citizen, 24 HOURS AFTER HE WAS SET FREE Marcos Iriarte-Valdez committed the crime barely a day after the activist was "compassionate" and let him walk. Now a man lost his life. THIS HAS TO STOP!! We should NOT have to live like this. Lock up the criminals and KEEP THEM IN JAIL. He shouldn't have been here in the first place if Gavin Newsom actually alerted ICE upon his first arrest!show more

🚨 UPDATE: Democrat-appointed California Judge Nichelle Holmes faces MASS... calls to be removed and HELD LIABLE for the criminal illegal alien she released m*rdering a US citizen, 24 HOURS AFTER HE WAS SET FREE Marcos Iriarte-Valdez committed the crime barely a day after the activist was "compassionate" and let him walk. Now a man lost his life. THIS HAS TO STOP!! We should NOT have to live like this. Lock up the criminals and KEEP THEM IN JAIL. He shouldn't have been here in the first place if Gavin Newsom actually alerted ICE upon his first arrest!show more

🚨 HOLY CRAP. In a jaw-dropping betrayal, Minnesota Gov.... Tim Walz and state officials have PARDONED an illegal alien CHILD PREDATOR who is convicted of s*xually assaulting a 10-YEAR-OLD He called his actions a "cultural thing" Democrats just condoned p*dophilia!! 🤯 This is their platform! DHS: "Tou Lue Vang was set to be removed from the country imminently after the pardon was announced. Now, the pardon could thwart his removal from the United States." "According to court filings, Vang repeatedly s*xually assaulted a girl between 2002 and 2004. On one occasion, he tried to offer his victim $10 to keep quiet about the s*xual assaults." "While being interviewed by police, he tried to justify his actions by saying that for him “it is a cultural thing...to marry and have s*x with girls as young as 12.” He also claimed that the victim was just as guilty as him and should also be arrested." “Governor Tim Walz's decision to pardon an illegal alien convicted child r*pist so he can remain in our country is disgusting." TIM SHOULD RESIGN, TONIGHT!show more

Plane Hijacker Freed by Activist Judge Just Weeks After... ICE Detention A Cuban national who hijacked a passenger plane in 2003, assaulted the crew, and forced it to divert to Florida has been released back into U.S. communities by a Dem-appointed federal judge — despite awaiting deportation. Miakel Guerra Morales (left) served over 20 years in prison for aircraft piracy but was picked up by ICE in December 2025. On July 8, Judge John E. Steele (right, nominated by Bill Clinton) ordered his release, claiming he’d been detained too long. DHS fired back: “This activist judge forced ICE to release a criminal illegal alien… another example of an activist judge trying to thwart President Trump’s mandate.” (Video: AI) He’s now under supervision in Miami while deportation efforts continue. Should activist judges be held legally accountable for crimes that dangerous criminals commit after being wrongly released into the U.S.?show more

The woman accusing Conor McGregor of rape was chilling... with him just 30 minutes after she claims the sexual assault happened. 🙄 She didn’t run to the numerous police officers in the arena. She didn’t phone 911. She didn’t ask bystanders for help. What does she do? Two days later she retains an attorney and starts demanding money. Shocker. Listen to me. ANY woman who falsely accuses a man of abuse, rape, etc. should be sentenced to the SAME AMOUNT OF TIME that an otherwise guilty man would have to serve. That should be the standard. Too many women weaponize and exploit the system to effectively destroy mens reputations. Whether it’s to manipulate a divorce, sway a custody battle, or financial gain. Not only does shit like this ruin mens lives, it adds scrutiny to the credibility of real victims. The worst part about it? No matter how easily Conor McGregor squashes these allegations, there is ALWAYS going to be a group of haters commenting, ‘rapist!’ under every one of his posts from here on out. And that’s fucking bullshit. Retweet if you are sick of it as well.show more

Hamas “journalist” Ahlam Tamimi cannot hide her smile the... moment she hears that eight Jewish children were killed in the attack she planned. She used her press credentials to scout targets inside Israel, selected the crowded Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem, and personally escorted the suicide bomber to the site so he could murder as many Jews as possible. Sixteen people were killed. Eight of them were children. One was a pregnant woman. Another 130 were wounded. Many of the victims were American citizens. Tamimi later admitted she was disappointed when the first reports said only three dead. As the number rose, she could not hide her smile. “Allah be praised,” she said. “It was great.” This is the face of the ideology that still calls the deliberate slaughter of Jewish children an act of worship.show more

#NIGERIA 🇳🇬: There’s currently an ongoing "festival" in Ozoro,... Isoko north LGA Delta State, whereby if they see any woman or girl outside, she would be raped and molested. I have no words. Honestly, I don’t understand how any culture or tradition where rape and sexual assault is deemed legal just to carry out festival rites in the year 2026! Students in the Ozoro/Delta State University are panicking as the festival will still continue today - and more boys/men are planning to harass more girls/women even going to their hostels to look for them!! WATCH ATTACHED VIDEO 📹: Delta Youths Strip, Rape, Molest, Assault Women During ‘Raping Festival’ In Ozoro Community... And more disturbing videos from the Ozoro "raping festival," - this time you can see a young woman being dragged off a bike by a mob of boys/men. 😞 Another viral video shows a woman crying for help after being sexually assaulted. According to accounts, the disturbing claim is that during this period, any girl found outside is at risk of being sexually assaulted and/or raped. This is all beyond disturbing - it is a mass coordinated crime. In a world that claims to be civilized, there should be no "festival" where sexual violence is planned and carried out in broad daylight. This is not culture. This is not tradition. This is organised sexual violence, and it must be treated as such. Foreigners who are unaware of this situation have reportedly fallen victim as well. There is Delta State University in Ozoro, too, and many female students may not be fully aware of the danger. Apparently, though, the Delta State Police have now stepped in and have launched an investigation. Fingers crossed, this is true - a totally necessary first step towards ending this barbarity.show more

Kara Robinson was 15 when a man put a... gun to her neck and forced her into a plastic storage container. What he did not realize was that while Kara was terrified, she was also paying attention. On June 24, 2002, Kara was outside a friend's home in South Carolina when a stranger approached. He forced her into his vehicle and drove her to an apartment, where he held and sexually assaulted her for approximately 18 hours. Kara understood that fighting him physically could get her killed. So she tried something else. She talked to him. She deliberately engaged with him, attempting to make him comfortable enough to lower his guard. At the same time, she began quietly collecting information. She noticed details inside the apartment. She remembered the layout. She paid attention to objects, surroundings and anything that might later tell police where she had been. She even managed to learn information about her captor himself. Then he made a mistake. He eventually fell asleep. Kara slipped free, made it out of the apartment and ran for help. But escaping was only part of what she accomplished. When police questioned her, the frightened 15-year-old was able to give investigators an extraordinary amount of detail. Her memory helped them identify her kidnapper as Richard Marc Evonitz. Then detectives discovered something much worse. Evonitz was wanted in connection with the abductions and murders of three girls in Virginia: Sofia Silva, 16, and sisters Kristin and Kati Lisk, 15 and 12. Police closed in on him. Evonitz fled, leading officers on a pursuit before taking his own life. Kara had survived a man linked to the murders of girls close to her own age because, during 18 hours of terror, she had managed to do something incredibly difficult. She made him believe she was under his control while she was memorizing the evidence that could destroy him. #survivalstory #herstory #fypshow more

"The apartment was supposed to be empty. Deputy Elena... Rodriguez was doing one last sweep of a condemned unit on the east side before the building was sealed. It should have been routine, just another silent walk through a place people had already forgotten. For seven years she has worked the force and learned how to stay steady in hard situations. Domestic calls, violent scenes, abandoned homes have all been part of the job. Building a wall becomes necessary or the work breaks you. Trash covered the floors and spoiled food filled the air. The silence inside felt heavy and wrong. When she stepped into the kitchen, she stopped cold. A dog was chained tightly to an old radiator. He was not just thin. His body was skeletal. Someone had left him there in the dark with no food and no water while life outside kept moving. There was no growl. There was no attempt to pull away. At the sight of her uniform, he slowly lifted his head and tapped his tail once against the floor. That small movement broke her. She dropped to her knees without thinking about the dirt or the smell. Footage from her partner captured the moment she stopped being just an officer and became a human being facing something cruel. "Hey. Hey. Oh buddy. You're okay now." Her voice shook as she reached toward him carefully. "Nobody is coming back. I'm right here. We're getting you out. You're not staying here." The dog leaned what little weight he had against her legs. A slow breath left his body as his eyes closed while she kept speaking softly. "You're safe with me. I promise. You're safe." Her partner rushed in with bolt cutters and broke the chain from the radiator. Without waiting for animal control, Elena lifted him in her arms and carried him outside herself, shocked at how light he felt. They later named him Blue. Blue spent one month in critical care fighting to regain strength. Every day before her shift, she visited him and sat beside the kennel until he began to trust again. That afternoon was not the end of the story. She signed the adoption papers yesterday. The dog who had been left alone in a dark apartment now sleeps in a warm home on a soft bed beside the woman who promised he would never be left behind again. | Dancing in the Sky.show more

California Congressman Ted Lieu is facing widespread calls for... his expulsion from Congress after reports revealed that last night’s attempted assassin — a man from Lieu’s home district in California — appears to have acted on the very falsehoods Lieu has repeatedly spread about President Trump. Constituents are being urged to contact his office and ask why he is using inflammatory rhetoric that seems to be inciting his own voters toward acts of political violence and terror. Maybe Ted can also explain his relationship with Ed Buck. Don’t they have the same belt buckle? What’s the backstory on that creepy belt buckle? ☠️ And how many times had he visited Buck’s home? Was Adam Schiff present, too? Two African-American men, the first in 2017 and the second in 2019, were discovered dead in Buck's West Hollywood home, later determined to be due to drug overdoses. Several reports indicated that Buck had a history of bringing African-American men to his house, where he would reportedly inject them with high doses of crystal methamphetamine for sexual gratification. He plied the men with drugs and then sexually assaulted them while they were unconscious or immobile. In January 2019, a coalition of 50 civil rights organizations called for law enforcement to investigate the matter. Adam Schiff attempted to run interference. On September 17, 2019, Buck was arrested and charged with three counts of battery causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine and maintaining a drug house. He was convicted of nine federal charges in 2021; on April 14, 2022, Buck was sentenced to 30 years in prison.show more

🚨 MEET POPE LEO XIV’S GREAT REPLACEMENT BISHOP: Smuggled... in a Car Trunk as an Illegal — Now Installed to Lead West Virginia Catholics Against Trump Yes, you read that right. Pope Leo XIV just named Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala (55, El Salvador-born) as the new Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston - the only Catholic diocese covering the entire state of West Virginia. Menjivar-Ayala entered the U.S. illegally as a teenager in 1990, smuggled in the trunk of a car after multiple failed attempts fleeing El Salvador’s civil war. He later gained asylum, became a citizen in 2006, and rose through the ranks. Now he’s being installed to lead Catholics in one of America’s reddest, least-diverse states - where Trump won over 70% in 2024, and Latinos make up just ~2.4% of the population. And it gets worse: This new bishop has openly called for Catholics to speak out against President Trump’s treatment of illegals. In columns and statements, he’s slammed Trump’s enforcement as a “shock and awe” campaign of “questionable legality,” urged the faithful to stand with migrants as “neighbors,” and criticized any silence or support for border security. He frames mass deportation as some moral failing - while ignoring the crime, strain on resources, and cultural erosion we’re actually seeing. This isn’t random. It’s exactly the agenda we’ve been exposing in our RAIR Foundation report: “Vatican’s Great Replacement: How Pope Leo XIV and UN Migration Chief Amy Pope Are Erasing Christian Civilization.” Pope Leo calls mass migration a “new missionary age” and a “blessing.” He partners with Obama-Biden globalist Amy Pope (running the UN’s $2.5B IOM migration machine) to import populations and reframe illegal entry as a sacred duty. Now he’s elevating activist clergy who lived the illegal journey and push the same open-borders gospel from the pulpit. West Virginia isn’t a coincidence - it’s strategic. Import the ideology into Trump country. Turn the Church into an arm of the UN migration agenda. Replace the historic Christian West with engineered demographic change. Pope Leo (the first U.S.-born pope) isn’t defending the faith or Western civilization - he’s undermining it. While Christians face persecution abroad, the Vatican opens the floodgates here. Trump must keep fighting: Defund the IOM, withdraw from UN migration pacts, end the church-contractor grift, and secure our borders. The Vatican’s “mercy” is demographic warfare. Full RAIR exposé here:show more

Arun from Malkajgiri, Hyderabad married a woman about a... decade ago but she couldn’t stand his harrassment and took a divorce. Arun next got into a live-in relationship with his ex-wife’s sister Usha Rani. He married her about 5 years ago. But for the past few months, Arun started suspecting even Usha Rani. This resulted in a lot of fights and Usha Rani went to her home a few days. Today morning he called Usha Rani to speak & shot her with a gun. Usha Rani succumbed to the bullet injuries on the spot. The twist is - three months ago, while Hyderabad police were doing routine vehicle checks at Amberpet, they found Arun, a real estate agent, with a gun. They seized the gun. Not sure if they filed any case. Anyway! Arun now procured another gun from his friends in Old City & today morning he killed his wife Usha Rani. Usha Rani’s sister was smarter she escaped Arun. A psycho husband will always be a psycho husband. Also! How are guns so freely available in Hyderabad? A normal real estate agent can like procure a gun within three months of police seizing his weapon? WTH is happening in the city?show more

Sorry, I’m drunk: We don’t have many “little steps”... left to take or make. We won’t be together much longer. She will be taken; though I’ve known it for years, it doesn’t hurt less. She shined in an incredible way – a supernova. I was black-pilled after a terrible divorce complete w/ false accusations & later this woman came along; I was slow to trust & bitter but she made the world bright again. She made me smile. She gave me hope & something to come home to. I think that’s what most men aspire to…something to come home to, some family unit to serve & sacrifice for. I put my own life below my children’s, and below my wife or partner. I will suffer whatever I must for their benefit, and I’ll take satisfaction in doing it. In a weird way, it will make me happy. She is far more than I deserve & now she is wasting away…and I can’t do anything about it, no matter how much I work or suffer. Part of me – maybe a large part – will go with her. I will soldier on for the kids, but she was so beautiful & bright…that light will be gone & I’m not sure what’s left. Now she struggles to get out of bed. Can’t eat besides a bag of liquids hooked to a pump & tube, either. Which is only one of three tubes & bags. Cancer is devouring her. She weighs 80 pounds. She’s still beautiful. I will be lost without her; no purpose or rudder. I was going to show her the world & how to have spontaneous adventures…she’d started learning to non-rev & we made good use of it, but it’s not to be. I’ll carry on for the kids, but I just don’t see anything for me, and I’m tired of being the good soldier & sucking up all the bad shit. So, so tired of “you’ll survive”. I’m sorry. Like I said, I’m drunk. I need to let this stuff out sometimes. Bobby Brown had a great sentiment & my GF danced to it in the video: “Every little step I take, you will be there Every little step I make, we’ll be together” I was against commitments when we met, then skeptical, then hoped & lived for it. I rejoiced in finding a partner like her – she’s just so good. Then I was robbed of it. More importantly, she was robbed of everything. I already mourn for her, and part of that is mourning for all that could have been for her. The world is losing an amazing woman. Just a zombie at this point. Not feeling much of anything. Sorry, drunk musings as I go through my phone. I try not to talk about this, and I am really good when she’s unloading on me, but I don’t have anyone else to share that with & sometimes it builds up. I’m not a threat to anyone or myself; my job actually gives me some joy…but I’m just hurting at home now.show more

This Deepstate Dipke says that Modiji should RESIGN &... hand over to the youngsters (like him) Now listen to him👇👇 He calls his month long agitation in Jantar Mantar as a “LAMBA SANGHARSH” He is feeling TIRED 🥱 after eating thoos thoos ke & “getting fresh” in 5 star facilities for a month Modiji has been working hard WITHOUT taking a LEAVE for the last > 25 years He fasts on Navratri, drinking ONLY hot water He has ONLY 1 meal a day during the 4 month period of Chaturmas But he keeps working normally He doesn’t complain He never says, I am fasting, I have a headache, I am tired He continues working hard Sometimes, he is in one nation in the morning, another in the afternoon & third in the night, doing paper work in the flight Sometimes, he goes to highest military commands to encourage our jawans, spends every Diwali with them He is up at night, talking with EAM to ensure safety of Indians stuck anywhere in the world Even when his mother died, there was a simple funeral & he went back to work This is the same Karmayogi & his saintly DEAD MATAJI who some of your CJP guys ABUSED in the vilest of language You have NEVER said SORRY or expressed REGRET that such a thing happened & now you are playing sympathy card ? You can’t even do for 1 month what Modiji has done his entire life ? SANGHARSH Grown up in a poor family Went across length & breadth of Bharat multiple times as an RSS pracharak Working hard as CM & PM for last 25 years Dipke, do you have even 0.00000001 % of his work ethics ? His stamina? His charisma? Whether you like it or not, we are PROUD of our PM & we want him as our Pradhan Sevak 👍👍 Modiji is the OG Boss 🔥🔥🔥🔥show more

THREAD: A Missouri woman is wanted for questioning in... connection to a fire that damaged, & in some areas destroyed, 4 businesses in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, a hot spot for tourists. Police believe the woman, Danielle Bertothy, is back in the U.S. after leaving the island following the fires. On the night of January 1st, a woman, believed to be Danielle, was seen on video, at Bar Marea. She appeared, to staff, to be intoxicated. After serving her two shots, they say they told her they would serve her no more. An argument took place shortly thereafter. Staff called police. According to the bar’s owner police escorted the woman to her AirBnb, which is across the street from the bar. The woman returned a short time later and got into another argument, according to the bar’s owner, who again called the police, and who again took the woman back to her AirBnb. The police stayed at the restaurant until it closed. Then, everyone went home. “Two hours later we got a call that everything was on fire,” the bar’s owner told me. There is surveillance video that shows a woman walking by one of the establishments with what appears to be a red plastic gasoline can. ** The owner of the Airbnb told me that due to the island wide blackout on December 31, a generator and a red gasoline plastic can (filed with extra fuel) were delivered to the home so that the Airbnb guest would be able to have power.*** The owner of the AirBnb rental identified Danielle Bertothy as being the woman who rented the home, checking in December 30. She was expected to check out January 11th. According to the AirBnb homes owner, Danielle left the AirBnb around 5am on January 2nd, roughly 5 hours after the fire was started. I tried to reach her by cell but got a voicemail. A person named Danielle Bertothy works for HLK, a brand building agency in Saint Louis, Missouri. The agency released this statement: “we were shocked to learn about the events in Puerto Rico. We have not been contacted by law-enforcement in either Puerto Rico or Missouri, but we are ready to cooperate in their investigation if asked. After learning about this, we chose to place the named individual on suspension immediately pending further information. We are outraged by the senseless act and hope the authorities can address it in a timely fashion.” Four businesses suffered major damage in the fire: They are: Luichy’s Seaside Hotel, Bar Marea, Marinera, & Artesania Juavia. I found a number, which according to available records, is linked to Danielle. It’s not. The person who currently is the owner of that they have been flooded with calls and voicemails and even received death threats directed at Danielle.show more

Ekwulobia Kidnap: “My Brother Jowizaza Extravagant Lifestyle Is The... Cause Of All This Madness And Why Our Father Was Kidnapped.” ~ Jowizaza’s Sister Blasts Her Brother👀 Sir Joseph Ezeokafor, Anambra-Born Industrialist And Founder Of The Jezco Group, Is Reportedly Spending His 10th Night In The Hands Of Kidnappers After He Was Abducted While On His Knees Praying. However, The Situation Has Taken Another Dramatic Turn, As His First Child And Eldest Daughter, Ezeokafor Blessing, Has Taken To Social Media To Accuse Her Younger Brother And Instagram Personality, Eberechukwu Jowizaza, Of Contributing To The Family’s Current Ordeal And Financial Difficulties. In A Series Of Posts On Her Facebook Page, Blessing, A Lawyer, Made Several Serious Allegations About Her Brother’s Lifestyle, The Family’s Financial Situation And The Circumstances Surrounding Her Father’s Kidnap. Among Her Major Claims: 1. She Alleged That Her Family Is Not As Wealthy As Jowizaza Portrays Online, Describing His Display Of Wealth As “Audio Money” And An Exaggerated Lifestyle. 2. She Claimed That His Online Display Of Wealth Created The Impression That The Family Had Vast Financial Resources, Allegedly Making Them A Target. 3. She Blamed Her Brother’s Public Lifestyle For Bringing Unnecessary Attention To Their Father, Whom She Described As A Quiet Man Whose Main Focus Is Serving God. 4. She Alleged That Jowizaza’s Management Of The Family Business Contributed To Its Financial Problems And Claimed The Jezco Group Is Facing Significant Debt. 5. She Alleged That The Company Owes FCMB About ₦40 Billion And That One Of Its Accounts Has Been Frozen Over Unpaid Loans. These Claims Have Not Been Independently Verified. 6. She Claimed That Jowizaza Was Removed As A Director Of The Company And Subsequently Placed On A Monthly Salary Of ₦1 Million. 7. She Also Questioned How Her Brother Could Raise The Reported ₦700 Million Ransom Initially Demanded By The Kidnappers, Which She Said Was Later Increased To ₦1.5 Billion. 8. She Ended Her Rants By Appealing To The Kidnappers To Release Her Father, Insisting That He Had Done Nothing To Deserve What He Was Going Through. The Allegations Made By Blessing Are Serious And Have Not Been Independently Verified. They Also Appear To Be Part Of An Ongoing Family Dispute, So The Claims Should Be Treated As Allegations Until Supporting Evidence Or Responses From The Other Parties Emerge. More Updates To Follow.show more

HE WAS FREE FOR LESS THAN 24 HOURS… AND... THE CLOCK WAS ALREADY TICKING. SHOULD THE SYSTEM BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE WHEN A REPEAT OFFENDER IS RELEASED AND IMMEDIATELY REOFFENDS? In Baton Rouge, police had barely finished releasing surveillance photos before the public stepped in. Within hours, 22-year-old Jeremiah Taylor was identified and tracked down as the suspect. But this wasn’t the first time his name had surfaced. Taylor had previously been accused of drugging and r*ping another woman twice in August of 2024. At the time, he had just been released from jail on earlier burglary charges. The allegations sent shockwaves through the community, but the case would later take a controversial turn. On January 13, 2026, the charges against him were dropped, and Taylor walked out of jail a free man. Freedom didn’t last long. According to reports, only hours after being released, Taylor allegedly violated a protective order by returning to the very victim’s home who had accused him in the earlier case. The move raised serious questions about safety, accountability, and how quickly the system can unravel. Then came the surveillance photos. Police released images connected to a new investigation, and the public quickly recognized the man in them. Within hours, tips flooded in identifying Taylor. Less than two months after walking out of jail, he’s now back behind bars. The case has reignited a fierce debate about protective orders, dropped charges, and whether the justice system is doing enough to prevent repeat offenders from slipping through the cracks. AT WHAT POINT DO AUTHORITIES DECIDE SOMEONE IS TOO DANGEROUS TO KEEP RELEASING?show more

Gavin Newsom’s Ex Details the Affair That Nearly Ended... Him Ruby Rippey has finally broken her long silence in a raw Vanity Fair essay, laying out the full story of her months-long affair with then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom while she was married to his close friend and top aide. She describes the power imbalance, the late-night encounters, and the personal freefall that followed. “It isn’t love. It isn’t romance. It’s intoxication,” she writes. “The text message is a hit. The glance across the hallway, a hit. The risk floods my bloodstream. I walk down the corridors of City Hall—my nude stilettos striking the marble floor. He looks at me, his gaze deliberate, newly curious. It feels like oxygen.” Rippey recounts the night it began at a wedding: “My boss and I end up in the narrow hallway outside the bathroom at the same time. We wait, across from each other. The space is tight. The silence stretches. He slips his hands into his tan trouser pockets and smiles—his usual shy, aw-shucks smile. I say nothing. I hold his gaze longer than I should. The air changes.” She woke the next morning “cold, almost shivering” and “soaked from the waist down” after blacking out. Days later, Newsom returned a gold bracelet her grandmother had given her that she left behind in the hotel room. The encounters continued. One night after she spilled wine on his carpet, Newsom looked up while scrubbing the stain and said, “You know, we really can’t do this anymore. You can’t be doing this to Alex.” They kept going anyway. He knew it was wrong. He said it out loud. And he still went along with it. In Los Angeles she blacked out again and woke to find “tiny shirt buttons scattered like coins” on the floor—buttons she had torn from his shirt. Newsom later texted: “Thank God the W had T-shirts.” Rippey spiraled into heavier drinking and cocaine use until an emergency-room visit forced her into rehab. Her sister called Newsom and told him to stay away: “She is unwell. She is getting help. Even if she reaches out to you, it is your responsibility to say no.” His reply, she writes, was some version of “God bless, God bless.” She eventually confessed to her husband in a short email: “Just sex—on and off for months—with the mayor. It ended before rehab. I’m sorry.” Rippey makes clear she was not coerced: “I was not coerced. I knew what I was doing.” She also pushes back hard on Newsom’s later claim in his memoir that he “came clean” to her husband. The truth is the opposite. She was the one who told Alex. Newsom’s version, she writes, “gives him credit for something I had already done.” (Video: AI) Newsom didn’t force the affair. But he recognized how wrong it was, said so himself, and chose to continue. That pattern of knowing better and doing it anyway has followed him ever since. Twenty years later, as Newsom eyes higher office, the woman at the center of the scandal that nearly ended him is finally telling the story in her own words. It is not the version he has tried to sell.show more