GOP candidate accused of choking his wife wrote graphic descriptions of violence against women in novel: report

On Tuesday, POLITICO reported that Sean Parnell, former President Donald Trump's handpicked candidate for the 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race, wrote detailed descriptions of violence against women in a novel.

"Parnell, who has emerged as the frontrunner in the Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary, portrays multiple scenes of men assaulting women in the 2018 novel, the first of four in a fiction series written by the Army combat veteran," reported Natalie Allison. "In 'Man of War,' Parnell features several scenes in which women were battered and smacked, describing female characters being dragged across the floor and pulled by their hair — and the attackers reveling in their pain."

This comes amid new revelations that Parnell's wife, Laurie Snell, is accusing him of trying to violently choke her.

"Those were among the explosive allegations made in a child custody hearing, an account of which was reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer," noted the report. "'He tried to choke me out on a couch and I literally had to bite him,' Snell said in a Butler, Pa. courtroom, according to the Inquirer. 'He was strangling me.' Snell's tearful testimony included a claim that Parnell pinned her down and called her a 'whore' and 'piece of s---,' the newspaper reported."

Parnell, who ran for Congress in 2020, has strenuously denied all of these allegations, vowing that "the truth will prevail" when he gets to testify in court.