Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) called this week for Congress to release the names of House members who have been accused of “harassment (sexual and other forms)” and used taxpayer money to settle the claims.

Massie, a deficit hawk and libertarian-leaning Republican, posed to X on Thursday and wrote, “Congress has secretly paid out more than $17 million of your money to quietly settle charges of harassment (sexual and other forms) in Congressional offices.”

He added, “Don’t you think we should release the names of the Representatives? I do.”

Massie’s post included a clip from a June 2024 House hearing on President-elect Donald Trump’s porn star hush money conviction. Massie said at the time that “Congress has paid over $17 million in hush money for sexual misconduct inside of the offices in these buildings. And what’s more is that was taxpayer money.”

During the hearing Massie made clear that the issue is bipartisan and pointed the finger at his colleagues, saying, “Who in here has had the taxpayer pay for their sexual misconduct charges, the hush money?”

“I bet there is some over there, there may be some over here,” he added before drawing a parallel to the Trump case. “Not a penny of it has been turned in as a campaign finance expense,” Massie declared, referring to a key allegation against Trump that led in part to his 34 count conviction and his personal attorney Michael Cohen doing jail time from 2019 to 2021.

Massie’s post comes in the wake of the House Ethics Committee report into allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use against Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). Gaetz has since threatened to return to Congress to expose all the allegations against his former colleagues as a kind of revenge.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), an ally of Gaetz and Trump, shared Massie’s post and added, “Yes. I want to release the congressional sexual slush fund list. Tax payers should have never had to pay for that. Along with all the other garbage they should not have to pay for.”

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