Poster boy for MAGA politicians

John Jessup ran for the position of county commissioner in Hancock county, Indiana. He doesn’t like gays, immigrants, or trans people, standard MAGA values, and won handily with a plurality against two Democratic contenders…but then he was arrested for a wild night in Las Vegas, if we can call sexual assault merely “wild”.

The arrest stemmed from a reported sexual assault of a woman in January after she and Jessup had a drunken night out in Vegas.

The victim told police Jessup forced her to drink high amounts of alcohol before taking advantage of her in his hotel room and sexually assaulting her.

Witnesses who were with Jessup and the victim corroborated the woman’s story to detectives, adding that Jessup said “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” multiple times throughout the night.

At the time of his arrest, Jessup reportedly told police there was “nothing criminal” about what he’d done while describing the incident as a “f***ed up, drunk night.”

It gets worse. We get the details from the victim.

(Below the fold since this gets ugly.)

The woman described how, during a night out in Vegas, Jessup “kept feeding her” Long Island Iced Teas despite her wanting to stop and drink water. Jessup then reportedly took the woman to a gentleman’s club where she became sick and started throwing up in the bathroom.

Jessup and the woman then reportedly went back to their hotel, but the woman was so intoxicated she needed to be put into a wheelchair to make it up to her room. Once inside, the woman said she got into the shower fully clothed and turned the water on to sober up.

However, the woman told police that the next thing she remembers is waking up in a bed lying next to Jessup. She said both she and Jessup were naked and he was touching her sexually.

Jessup reportedly got out of bed in a hurry once the woman woke up, got dressed and went downstairs to smoke a cigarette. Court documents detail how the woman said Jessup kept saying he was sorry and that he should “just kill himself.”

The woman said she pretended to be asleep the rest of the night after Jessup returned and got out of bed early to tell her husband what happened. Soon after, she booked a flight back home and later blocked Jessup’s phone number because he insisted on taking her to the airport.

It gets even worse.

The victim was his daughter. He was celebrating her 21st birthday by taking her to a strip club, forcing her to drink to excess, and then sexually assaulting her.

Happy birthday!

Mr Jessup says he will resign his elected position.