Trump Pardoned a Child Rapist, a Demonic Child Beater, a Vicious Wife-Beater, an Indicted Child Pornographer, and a Rapist of Women After Declaring Them His “Patriots”

By: Donald V. Watkins

Copyrighted and Published on August 3, 2025

An Editorial Opinion

Donald “Grab Them by the Pussy” Trump had no qualms on January 20, 2025, about pardoning a rapist of a 7-year-old girl, a demonic beater of a 3-year-old boy, a vicious wife-beater, an indicted pornographer of a prepubescent minor and a child under the age of 12, and a rapist of women. Trump called these criminals "patriots" and said, "Fuck it; Release 'em all."

Trump, who lusted after his daughter Ivanka when she was a teenager, has NEVER shown any empathy, sympathy, or support for the victims of child molestation, child rape, and child pornography. What is more, Trump has been found liable in court for sexually abusing one woman (E. Jean Carroll) and he has been accused of sexually abusing two dozen other women and teenage girls.

Of course, Trump has repeatedly denied all allegations that he sexually abused women or female teenagers.

Trump’s track-record of pardoning Republican-affiliated child molesters, child rapists, child pornographers, wife beaters, and rapists of women, without any consultation with their crime victims, is well established.

For reasons that have never been fully explained, Trump has shown an affinity for this particular category of dangerous criminals.

The Child Rapist

Theodore Middendorf is a convicted child rapist.  He pled guilty to the predatory sexual criminal assault of a 7-year-old girl in Illinois.  Middendorf, who was 31 at the time of his sex offense, raped this girl by penetrating her vagina.  He was sentenced to 19 years in a state prison.

Before Middendorf entered prison to serve his sentence, he went to Washington to participate in the January 6, 2021, insurrection and riot at the National Capitol. He was convicted on federal charges arising from the riot at the Capitol.

On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump called Middendorf a “patriot” and pardoned him on his federal charges. Trump did not have the power to pardon Middendorf on his state charges.

The Demonic Child Beater

On the same day, Trump also pardoned Matthew Huttle.  Trump also called Huttle a “patriot.”

Several days later, Huttle was shot and killed by law enforcement in Indiana during a traffic stop altercation and confrontation.  

Huttle had an extensive criminal history.  In one incident, "Huttle spanked his 3-year-old son so hard that he left bruises all over the child's backside and the child's neck, and the child had such extreme pain on his backside that he could not sit properly for a week,” said prosecutors.  

Huttle was sentenced to 2.5 years of imprisonment for this violent crime against his son.

The Wife Beater

Trump “patriot” Peter Schwartz had a "jaw-dropping criminal history of 38 prior convictions going back to 1991" when he assaulted Capitol police officers with pepper spray on January 6th, according to federal prosecutors.

In one incident, Schwartz assaulted his wife "by biting her on the forehead and punching her multiple times," according to court records.

Schwartz, who is obviously a career criminal, was sentenced to 14 years for his role in the Capitol riots. Trump proudly freed Schwartz after he had served four years of his sentence.

The Child Pornographer

January 6th rioter David Daniel of Mint Hill, North Carolina was charged with "Production of Child Pornography" and "Possession of Child Pornography," which allegedly "involved a prepubescent minor" and a child under the age of 12.

Trump did not care about Daniel’s pending child pornography felony charges. He called Daniel a "patriot" and pardoned him on federal charges of assaulting police officers during the Capitol riot.

The Rapist of Women

Kasey Hopkins is a January 6th rioter who "has a lengthy and troubling criminal history" including a 2002 conviction for "forcible rape," which resulted in a seven-year prison sentence.

"The defendant had forcible intercourse with the victim, choked her to the point of impairing her vision, banged her head into a wall, and urinated into the victim's mouth to humiliate her,” said prosecutors at Hopkins’ sentencing. "When the victim attempted to flee, naked, the defendant caught up to her and threw her down."

After calling Hopkins a "patriot,"Trump pardoned him without any regard to his “lengthy and troubling criminal history” or the forcible rape and humiliation of his female victim. Hopkins' actions in choking, beating, and urinating into this victim's mouth meant nothing to Trump.

The GOP has Become a Sanctuary for Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers.

Today's MAGA-controlled Republican Party has become a sanctuary for men who rape and sexually abuse children, who rape and sexually abuse women, who beat and torture children and women, and who give comfort and protection to child pornographers.  These sexual predators and abusers of women and children flocked to the Republican Party after Trump became president in 2017..

The Daily Kos has documented 4,000 prominent "Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers," between October 23, 2018 and June 19, 2025. Based upon our independent verification process, the list and summary of incidents appear to be accurate in all material respects.

A comparable list of "Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers" who are Democrats has not been compiled or published. Whenever such a list is compiled by a credible news source and independently verified, we will publish it.

Not surprisingly, Donald Trump, the man who bragged about grabbing women "by the pussy," now presides over the GOP’s protective kingdom for pedophiles and sex abusers of women and children. Trump was also best friends and party pals with the world’s most infamous pedophile – sex traffickerJeffrey Epstein.