Portman: I Donated Money From Wynn To Anti-Sex Trafficking Charities In Ohio

UNITED STATES -  NOVEMBER 08: Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, arrives to introduced Kirstjen Nielsen, Homeland Security Department secretary nominee, during her Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen Building on November 8, 2017. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., also introduced her. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 08: Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, arrives to introduced Kirstjen Nielsen, Homeland Security Department secretary nominee, during her Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee c... UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 08: Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, arrives to introduced Kirstjen Nielsen, Homeland Security Department secretary nominee, during her Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen Building on November 8, 2017. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., also introduced her. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) MORE LESS

Sen. Rob Portman says he has donated money he received from Las Vegas billionaire Steve Wynn to charities working to stem human sex-trafficking in Ohio.

In a statement Monday to The Associated Press, Portman spokeswoman Emily Benevides says the Ohio Republican “donated the money to a number of charities across Ohio that he’s worked closely with.”

Wynn resigned as the Republican National Committee’s finance chairman Saturday after allegations of sexual misconduct were published Friday in The Wall Street Journal.

Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have urged Republicans who have received money from Wynn to return them.

Portman is among several Republicans in the Senate to receive money from Wynn, a prolific Republican donor over the past decade who has also previously backed Democrats.

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  1. So.Much.Wynning.

    Now can we just get a list of the specific charities; the amounts donated; and certified receipts from those charities?

    Not that we wouldn’t trust you, Robbie…

  2. “Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have urged Republicans who have received money from Wynn to return them.”

    So what did Portman, Collins, and Graham have to say about the serial rapist in the White House?

  3. Avatar for mrf mrf says:

    From the NYT

    “A detailed investigative report in The Wall Street Journal portrayed Mr. Wynn, a billionaire casino magnate and prominent political donor, as a man who frequently demanded naked massages from female employees, sometimes pressuring them for sex and to masturbate him. The newspaper said that the activity had gone on for decades and that some female employees had complained to supervisors about Mr. Wynn’s behavior.”
    So a man who likes to infer that the countries citizens are just a bunch of layabouts who want a decent standard of living, some health insurance and retirement security is too darn lazy to please himself.

  4. Sure he did…this guy will never give up money in hand. Show me the papers little man

  5. Sure he did…this guy will never give up money in hand. Show me the papers little man

    Money, he didn’t say “all the money”.

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