Summary

Minnesota Republican state Sen. Justin Eichorn, who introduced a bill classifying “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as a mental illness, was arrested for allegedly soliciting sex from a minor.

Police say Eichorn believed he was meeting a 16-year-old girl but was actually texting undercover officers. His arrest came just a day after he and four other Republican senators introduced the controversial bill.

Eichorn, who is married with four children, was booked into jail and will be transferred to the Hennepin County Adult Detention Center.

    • AtHeartEngineer
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      412 hours ago

      Let me preface this with, I obviously don’t support pedos, but generally encouraging law enforcement to setup and entrap people for any reason is pretty sketchy and can easily get out of hand.

    • @samus12345@lemm.ee
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      1522 hours ago

      Good thing this is usually covered by state law enforcement. Federal wouldn’t do shit.

    • @NotLemming@lemm.ee
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      1423 hours ago

      I’m certain they will blame this on the deep state and deny he ever did it, no matter what evidence.

      • @whodrankarnoldpalmer@startrek.website
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        521 hours ago

        I’m not talking about politicians- I’m talking about all of them. The supporters. The base. The time for winning hearts and minds or “educating” is long past.

        • @NotLemming@lemm.ee
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          523 hours ago

          I agree, but I’m saying that the MAGAs can’t accept that their cult ever does any wrong. They stormed the capitol themselves and blamed it on AntiFA. They will definitely not condemn this guy, they’ll say it’s fake news and the deep state antiFA boogeymen came for this brave guy.

          • @rockhard@lemm.ee
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            723 hours ago

            That’s why you have to keep asking them questions. Antifa did it? Why’d they get pardoned by Trump? They’ll usually disengage or start hurling insults.