MT GOP Senate Candidate’s Facebook Include Lewd Photos, Racist Costumes

• Montana GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy’s outdated Fb profile is filled with questionable photographs.
• They embody lewd photographs of ladies, a caricature of Center Jap individuals, and homoerotic jokes.
• The images date again to 2006 – 2008, when Sheehy was a pupil at army establishments.

When Tim Sheehy launched his marketing campaign for US Senate in Montana late final month, nationwide Republicans rejoiced. They’d recruited a star candidate to run towards Sen. Jon Tester, probably the most susceptible incumbent Democrats up for re-election subsequent 12 months.

A former Navy SEAL and rich businessman, Sheehy brings the resume and lack of apparent political baggage that nationwide Republicans hope will assist them flip the Senate in 2024. Not even two weeks into his marketing campaign, he already has the endorsement of 10 Republican senators, who’ve backed his marketing campaign in an effort to go off a possible major problem from Rep. Matt Rosendale, who misplaced to Tester in 2018.

However as nationwide Republicans labored to recruit and vet the 38-year-old first-time candidate, they seem to have missed a vital fact of the digital age, and the millennial candidates who’ve come of age inside it — nothing ever fairly disappears from the web.

That is definitely the case with what seems to be Sheehy’s Fb web page.

Although features of Sheehy’s obvious profile — named “Timothy Patrick” — seem to have been made non-public, Fb customers can nonetheless discover a litany of photographs from his profile relationship from 2006 to 2008, when Sheehy was a pupil on the US Military Ranger College in Georgia and on the US Naval Academy in Maryland.

And the photographs embody a lot of what one may anticipate from an adolescent posting on a burgeoning social media community within the 2000s.

‘She’s not a skank’

In a single picture from 2008, which depicted a muscular lady clad in an American flag bikini and pointing a gun, Sheehy tagged a profile that seems to be that of his now-wife Carmen Sheehy, who he first met once they have been college students on the Naval Academy.

“WOW! Carmen…when did you go blonde?” wrote one pal, prompting Carmen to sarcastically reply that it was “across the identical time I turned a steroid utilizing skank.”

“Shes not a skank!!! jeeez,” Tim Sheehy commented in response. “Shes a really match defender of Americas freedom clearly.”

One week earlier, Sheehy posted a photograph of a girl posing on train gear with one nipple uncovered.

“I tagged it as carmen and she or he untagged it…bullshit,” Sheehy wrote beneath the submit.

One other picture from November 2006 reveals a person wearing a gown and a crimson checkered keffiyeh, a standard headdress worn by males within the Center East, alongside two males who look like dressed as Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il.

“Effectively, there’ll solely be 2 members on this image quickly…the man within the center is gonna be a lifeless fucker right here quickly,” wrote one pal. “Hahahhaah, BYE SADDAM, YOU F’ing POONJAB…KIM, U’RE NEXT!”

Hussein was executed by hanging roughly two months later.

In his marketing campaign launch video, Sheehy notes that the terrorist assaults on September 11, 2001 motivated him to enter the army, the place he later served in Afghanistan alongside his spouse, Carmen — although Sheehy doesn’t look like within the picture himself.

Different photographs seem to point out Sheehy partying with associates whereas a pupil on the Naval Academy. In a single picture uploaded by Sheehy, a person seems to be consuming from a bottle nestled between a girl’s breasts.

“That is not an excellent image of me, I am quick and blonde and my weiner seems to be about half-size,” wrote the pal who Sheehy tagged within the picture.

“Effectively hey, at the very least you do not seem like Sam right here [sic],” Sheehy wrote, presumably referring to the girl within the picture. “Though I do not assume her boobs are that huge…”

And different photographs from 2006, relationship to when Sheehy was nonetheless a pupil on the US Military Ranger College in Fort Benning, Georgia, present Sheehy partaking in homoerotic rough-housing with different college students.

“‘Do not ask, do not inform’ remains to be the official coverage, proper?” wrote one commenter, referring to the since-repealed coverage that prevented homosexual and lesbian service members from popping out whereas serving.

Reached for remark, Sheehy spokeswoman Katie Martin accused Democrats of resurfacing the “photographs of youngsters goofing round,” saying it was “wealthy” for them to take action when Tester had reportedly uncovered his genitalia to reporter Ben Terris whereas he was writing a profile of the senator. Terris recounted the story in his newly-released e-book, The Large Break.

“Neither he nor his employees have but to clarify why a grown man at 66 years outdated would discover that conduct acceptable,” stated Martin. “So, spare us your hypocrisy and harassment of a struggle hero over some goofing round as a child.”