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I don't believe Trump was the first pedophile president for even a moment.
You have to qualify it as Openly* Pedophile.
First president found to have committed rape by a court of law.
Can be first at anything if you use enough qualifiers.
Relevant xkcd
That was a single qualifier.
yeah thomas jefferson was president SUPER early in US history and had sex with a 14 year old girl he owned as deeded property, and who was the grand daughter of his father in law (from whom he got the deed for her mother as part of a dowry)
Lol I didn't have the specifics but for some reason the first person I thought about was Thomas Jefferson. Thanks for sharing!
Thomas Jefferson was the first pedophile president.
I wouldn't even confidently say that
Jesus do you have evidence that John Adams or Washington was a nonce too? Fuck, do we need to go deeper? Peyton Randolph?!
I have no evidence Washington was a pedophile, but I've heard enough stories of slave owners that I don't give the benefit of the doubt to anyone who owned large numbers of slaves.