The Atlantic: “Three days after President Trump announced his “Complete and Total Endorsement” of the Louisiana congressional candidate Blake Miguez, the Republican contender posted a video from outside the West Wing boasting of his close relationship with Trump and his team. “I just got done having some great meetings with the White House,” he told his supporters on February 7.
What he did not say—either publicly or to Trump’s advisers at the time—was that there was a political bombshell about to drop on his campaign for Louisiana’s deep-red Fifth Congressional District. Months earlier, when Miguez was running for the U.S. Senate, a 2007 police report had surfaced that showed that Miguez’s former girlfriend had accused him of rape and other abusive behavior, including locking her in bedrooms, taking away her keys, and holding her down. The Miguez campaign denies the claims….
The Miguez campaign pointed me to a February 24 email that the accuser’s father sent to Miguez’s state-Senate office after he was contacted by an Associated Press reporter asking about the accusations. The father told Miguez he could share the
email, the campaign told me.
“The only thing I told him were that you are a good man and you have my vote and everything my daughter has reported about you were lies and she is a liar and has a drug problem,” the accuser’s father wrote. “Not sure why they are digging up this crap but I wanted to give you a heads up.” The email did not refute any of the specifics in the police report, which the father claimed that he’d refused to read when the reporter
offered it to him. (I was unable to reach the accuser, whom I am not naming, or her family.)”