New MAGA Councilman On House Arrest For Sexually Assaulting Daughter

Donald Trump isn’t sending his best. A new MAGA councilman is on house arrest for sexually assaulting a woman. Not only was this not enough to cause his fellow Republicans to scream for his resignation from his current position as Commissioner of Hancock County, Indiana, but he managed to win an election for Hancock County Council despite these rather insane charges hanging over him. On its own, this situation is bad and a complete indictment of the people of Hancock, Indiana. Now add in that the woman he assaulted was his daughter.

John D. Jessup received 15,000 votes, easily winning a spot on the county council (the closest Democrat received 10,000 votes). At the time of the election, voters were fully informed of Jessup’s crime. The good, Christian MAGA politician was arrested and extradited to Vegas, where the assault took place, earlier this year. The woman says Jessup “kept feeding her” Long Island Iced Teas despite her saying she wanted to stop drinking and switch to water. He took her to a strip club where she vomited in the bathroom. Then, they went back to their hotel room.

The woman, according to reports, needed to be wheeled to the room in a wheelchair because she could not stand at that point. She passed out after a shower and awoke to Jessup “touching her sexually.” When he realized she was awake, he jumped out of bed and went downstairs to smoke. The woman says he apologized repeatedly and said he should “just kill himself.” She sneaked awake later that night to call her husband, booked a flight home, and blocked Jessup’s number — but not before he repeated a phrase to her through the night that will likely haunt her for the rest of her life: “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.”

And it just gets worse from there. 

MAGA Councilman On House Arrest For Sexually Assaulting Daughter

Meet Rachel, the woman John Jessup sexually assaulted in Vegas. While Jessup told Vegas police that “nothing criminal” and “f*cked up” happened and laughed during questioning. He told police that she had gotten “pretty lit” and asked him to get in bed with her because she was cold after taking a clothes-on shower. He assured police it was just a  “f*cked up, drunk night.” His daughter, who recently, came forward tells a different story.

“‘Please vote for my daddy’ is what I used to say to voters,” Rachel, who experienced the assault on her 21st birthday, says. “I was a typical 5-year-old kid who idolized my dad, and as I got older I always supported his political runs because I was his go-to person going to the polls with him. I was a daddy’s girl.” Now, she calls him “John” and he says she will not speak to him.

“He had taken all of my siblings to Las Vegas when they turned 21, and it was finally my turn to go,” Rachel says of the night out with her dad. “I never dreamed it would have ended up the way it did.”

“I’m not a big drinker, but as soon as we got there he started drinking and kept telling me I had to keep up with him, and he kept ordering me drinks and making me drink them, getting me drunk,” the MAGA politician’s daughter recalls. She says the fact that he didn’t want to bring her boyfriend on the trip makes her wonder if he didn’t plan this out.

“When I woke up, I knew I had been touched in a way I did not want to be touched,” she says. “I knew there was also a time period where I was passed out and I don’t know what happened.” Once she got out of the room, she called her boyfriend then her mother and stepfather who also went on the trip.

“This has been a really long road,” Rachel says. “I’ve had days where it’s been hard to get out of bed, where I can’t work or I couldn’t go to school, and I even ended up taking a full semester off from college because of it.”

What Happens Now?

Despite all of this, Republicans voted in droves for John Jessup, who accepted a plea deal to a lesser felony and is currently on house arrest awaiting sentencing. Though Jessup claims it is a one-time thing because of the alcohol, he has previously been accused of sexual harassment by a county employee.

Jessup’s term is scheduled to start in January and while he has promised to resign in the event of a guilty verdict, he has not done that yet.

“It’s been my greatest honor serving the people of Hancock county and I’m deeply, deeply ashamed and profoundly sorry for the shame that I brought to the county,” Jessup told reporters recently. He says he needs to fill out paperwork in order to resign as he has promised. He faces 8 to 20 years in prison.

Hancock County Commission President Bill Spalding refused to condemn his colleague after the election when a lot of information about this case was already publicly available.

“The commissioners do not have much information regarding the reason for the arrest and will refrain from any comment while this out-of-state agency has a charge and an active investigation ongoing,” Spalding said on November 7. “We will direct all further inquiry to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.”

If you have ever wondered how Donald Trump became President, it was this on a national level. Voters were fully informed. They knew what he was when they cast their ballots. MAGA simply doesn’t care, and women are seen as “less than” in that movement. The pain John Jessup caused his daughter is meaningless to them — because, to John and his fellow MAGAS, Rachel will never be a whole person worthy of respect.