Ultra MAGA State Sen. Wendy Rogers sponsored a bill earlier this year to block minors from watching online pornography. However, she seemed to think that was OK when she retweeted explicit images of Hunter Biden. Republicans love Hunter's dick pics. And now, she could face criminal charges for revenge porn.
AzFamily reports:
Late Wednesday, Sen. Wendy Rogers, who sponsored a bill earlier this year in an attempt to block minors from watching online pornography, retweeted a video that contained X-rated images of Hunter Biden, to her more than 300,000 followers on Twitter. The social media platform allows adolescents from as young as 13 years old to sign up without age restrictions and allows adult content to be posted.
In her retweet, Rogers wrote, "It's all here in black and white. Oh, and apparently in NBC living color."
Her defense is that she's an idiot.
Rogers, the Republican state senator for the Flagstaff area, has since removed the video. State Senate President Warren Petersen, also a Republican, released a statement to Arizona's Family, calling Roger's retweet a mistake. "[Rogers] didn't realize those images were in that video until it was brought to her attention, and she immediately removed the video from her feed," Petersen said.
She still broke the law.
Removing the offensive video, which Arizona's Family is prohibited from airing on TV and online, may not be enough to keep Rogers out of legal trouble, according to one local attorney. "It's not a defense if she later took them down, which appears she has done," Tom Ryan, a Valley lawyer, said. "Any more than it would be a defense if you robbed a Circle K and later gave the money back, you don't get to wipe out the robbery."
Ryan said he thinks Rogers violated Arizona's so-called revenge porn law, which makes intentionally disclosing a sexual picture of anyone without consent a criminal offense. Other lawyers who were contacted but unavailable for on-camera interviews said it would be a tough case to prosecute given the Bidens are a high-profile family and because explicit images of Hunter Biden are common on social media platforms.
This is just a normal day for good old Wendy:
Rogers is no stranger to controversy. Last year, she was censured by the state Senate following a pre-recorded speech she made for a white nationalist conference. During that speech, she called for people she viewed as enemies to be hanged from the gallows.
Rogers expressed her concerns about the ease minors can access pornography during a committee hearing this year, calling it "a scourge that is affecting impressionable minds." But she can do it. She's not a serious politician. It's as if these fringe politicians are competing to be the most extreme elements in the GOP.
