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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.

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[–] whodrankarnoldpalmer@startrek.website 43 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

More catfishing, more stings like this, more receipts. Great way to start taking them down.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 15 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 14 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] rockhard@lemm.ee 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Oh well. These people entered government willingly. They are the deep state.

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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 7 points 16 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.

[–] whodrankarnoldpalmer@startrek.website 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I hope some are redeemable but some don't seem to have hearts or minds... Not much you can do with them in that case.

Not in 2025 they’re not

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

My dude, I am 100% with you on that.

But everyone is apparently INSISTING on non-violent options, so…