MAGA Congressman caught on camera committing ‘strange’ act at stranger’s doorstep: report

Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), who on Tuesday is hoping to win his GOP primary election, was caught on a Floridian’s doorbell camera committing what TMZ described as a “pretty strange” act while reportedly canvassing for votes.

“Florida Congressman Randy Fine was going door to door looking for votes ... and somehow ended up rifling through a voter's mail,” TMZ reported Tuesday.

In a video that has since gone viral, a man who TMZ identified as Fine can be seen ringing the homeowner’s doorbell before stepping toward a mailbox mounted on the porch wall. The man identified as Fine stands mostly still for about 15 seconds before opening the mailbox and rifling through envelopes.

“Rep. Fine isn't shown removing, tampering with, or inserting anything ... so there's no apparent criminal issue here,” TMZ’s report reads. “Still ... rifling through a stranger's mailbox is a pretty strange way to win over a voter.”

Reactions to the video were swift.

“Hey [Fine], why are you looking through someone’s mailbox while you’re out canvassing? Not only is it wrong, it’s creepy AF,” wrote former Democratic congressional nominee Barbie Harden Hall in a social media post on X. “Randy Fine is a menace to basic human decency.”

While TMZ definitively declared that Fine's conduct did not run afoul of federal law that prohibits tampering with another person’s mail, other critics weren’t so sure.

Susan Acevedo, for instance, a Californian political strategist and candidate for San Jacinto City Council, argued that merely touching someone else’s mail could constitute a crime, and urged her more than 38,000 followers on X to contact law enforcement about the incident.

Jacob Ogles, a journalist covering Florida's congressional delegation in Washington, D.C., concurred with Acevedo's assertion. He noted that someone affiliated with one of the campaigns vying for Fine's seat informed him that Fine's conduct was potentially illegal.

“One [Congressional District 6] campaign has already noted to me that going into someone's mailbox is, in fact, a federal crime,” Ogles wrote in a social media post on X. “That's something anyone who has gone door-knocking or distributing flyers should know.”