Pro-Trump mayoral candidate bars reporter from event after embarrassing Speedo story: report

A controversial pro-Trump mayoral candidate for Franklin, Tennessee was caught trying to boot a reporter for a specific network out of her event, after that network had broken an embarrassing story about her husband, reported The Daily Beast on Friday.

"Jared Sullivan, an observer at Wednesday’s event in Franklin, Tennessee, reportedly recorded Hanson telling a staffer, “No Channel 5. They have to leave.” Meanwhile, just outside the forum, video showed a group of apparent Hanson supporters standing shoulder-to-shoulder to block reporters from entering the event — with one woman even taking a swipe at a journalist as he tried to squeeze by," reported Josh Fiallo. "While Hanson hasn’t revealed why she wanted Channel 5 out of the room, it’s possibly related to the station’s reporting this week that revealed Hanson’s husband once rocked American flag Speedos — and nothing else, save for a gold chain, glasses, and shoes — to a Pride event in Chicago."

This comes in spite of the fact that Hanson has built her campaign on her opposition to a Pride event in the city as harmful to children, Fiallo noted, which "earned her street cred among the city’s conservative base" and got her "an endorsement from the city’s Moms For Liberty chapter, a right-wing advocacy organization that’s been labeled an 'extremist group' by the Southern Poverty Law Center."

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This comes amid a series of other scandals that has rocked Hanson's campaign for mayor, the election of which will take place next month.

Earlier this month, Hanson was caught lifting various women's social media posts to imply endorsements from the posters without their consent.

Shortly after that, she admitted to being arrested in Dallas in the 1990s for "promoting prostitution," and pleading guilty in exchange for avoiding jail time.