A leaked pornography video shows what appears to be a congressional staffer, who has been identified by many on the Hill, having anal sex with an unknown man in a Senate hearing room in the Hart Building. The footage was obtained and exposed by The Daily Caller.
One of the caucusing staffers can be seen in a photo, naked on all fours, looking back at the camera on the table where senators facing the audience and testifiers during hearings. He appears to be the recipient of an unprotected railing, the news outlet wrote.
A source identified the room to The Daily Caller as Hart 216. The Daily Caller blurred out the man’s face because his identity had not been confirmed, but his name is being widely shared on social media.
The Daily Caller story and video is at this link.
The news story has been picked up by other media, such as Breitbart News, which claims one of the men is a staff aide to Democrat Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland, who recently led a group of mainly Democrat senators and Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski on an official trip to the climate change summit COP 28 in Dubai.
The Washington Examiner and Free Beacon also wrote about it.
But The New York Times did not, and neither did The Washington Post. The New York Times, whose motto is “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” led with a story Saturday on global debt, and the Washington Post, whose motto is “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” wrote about Israel accidentally killing three hostages that had been held by Hamas since Oct. 7.
“If Republicans desecrated the halls of Congress by peacefully walking through them on January 6th. What the hell do you call it when 2 Democrat staff members are F*cking each other in the *ss in a Senate hearing room?,” wrote one person on X/Twitter, who identifies himself as a conservative.
Another man, who identifies as a liberal, posted his response, “‘Conservatives retweet gay porn’ was not on my expected list to accompany my morning coffee this AM.”
Monica Crowley, former Assistant Treasury Secretary and former Fox News contributor, wrote, “Cocaine, topless trans activists & communist dancers in the White House, Dem staffers having gay sex in a Senate hearing room, a Satanic statue in Iowa, anti-Semitic terrorist sympathizers in the streets & university corner offices… The Left is doing a bang-up job on America.”
Sen. Cardin gave the Washington Examiner in a statement, “We have seen media reports. As this is a personnel matter and under review, we will not be commenting further at this time.”
The Senate staffer who has been widely named in the activity at this point hinted that he may pursue legal action after he was named on social media.
Sen. Dick Durbin of Michigan is the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee; Cardin does not serve on that committee.
It’s not known when the pornographic clip was made, but the most recent three hearings in the room happened earlier this week, before the Senate adjourned for the holiday break. The hearings were on:
