GOP Congressman Caught Lying On Tinder To Troll For Younger Women — Now It's Being Covered Up!

Congressman Ryan Mackenzie has some explaining to do.

The Pennsylvania GOP legislator found himself in a pickle last summer when a skeleton from his closet emerged for the whole world to see… In his case, the skeleton in question was a Tinder profile he used in 2020 to try and court younger women! According to DailyMail.com, the now-42-year-old, who was 37 at the time, had his age set to 29. Ew! And there’s proof!

It was even worse because he’s now married! His wife is former NBC journalist Chloe Nouvelle, and they share a young son. So it was quite the scandal last June…

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The controversy came to light last June when he was locked in a tight race for Pennsylvania’s seventh district against Democrat Susan Wild. At the time, a spokesperson for his campaign claimed he was “neither married nor engaged” when the profile was active. Oh, OK, so only lying to women to try to sleep with them under false pretenses? Then we guess it’s fine? No, actually over 100 of his female constituents drafted a letter demanding an apology:

“Trolling on Tinder for younger women is one thing (we can’t help but notice that you fudged your age by nearly a decade), but doing so while you are actively serving on the Pennsylvania State Legislature is another. To make matters worse, you never took accountability for the lie, you just denied that you were married or engaged at the time.”

So two months later, in August, he went on to address the situation directly. During an interview with NewsNation, he actually tried to shift blame for the scandal on the Democratic party attempting to “distract” voters from other important topics:

“They like to talk about basically anything except their failed policies. The people are sick and tired of high prices, a wide open border, chaos around the world. Anything they can do to distract from those topics, they will take that opportunity.”

Refusing to answer questions about a personal scandal in the ONE interview that’s supposed to be about taking accountability… and they’re the ones trying to distract? OK.

So why are we talking about all this now? See, there’s been a wrinkle. And it’s all about his continued lack of accountability…

The whole scandal was added to Mackenzie’s Wikipedia page — obviously. But in a mysterious turn of events, it’s now been completely wiped… And his top staffer is being blamed.

According to DailyMail.com, a user under the name ATown1516 deleted a lengthy paragraph about the scandal and made 21 edits to Mackenzie’s page, including one about his vote for a law that would ban abortions for rape and incest victims. So why are people blaming his top staffer? Well, his name is Arnaud Armstrong, and guess where he used to live? In Allentown… In a house numbered 1516… Not to mention these edits were the only ones made by that account. Like it was created just to clean up Mackenzie’s record.

OMG!

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesman Eli Cousin has since spoken out about the mystery, telling the outlet:

“Whether it’s lying to Lehigh Valley voters about voting for an abortion ban without exceptions for rape or incest, lying about his age on Tinder, or having his staff misleadingly edit his Wikipedia page, it’s clear voters can’t trust a word Mackenzie says.”

EEEEEEK! Is that a coverup we smell??

What are YOUR thoughts, Perezcious readers??

[Images via Rep Ryan Mackenzie/YouTube]

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