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highplainsdem

(59,632 posts)
Wed Mar 12, 2025, 09:08 PM Mar 2025

Robert Morris, former Texas megachurch pastor and Trump adviser, indicted for child sex crimes

Source: Texas Tribune

Robert Morris, the Dallas-area megachurch pastor who resigned last year amid sexual abuse allegations, has been indicted in Oklahoma for child sex crimes that date back to the 1980s.

Morris is a former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, and Gateway — one of the nation’s largest megachurches — has been particularly active in politics. In 2020, Trump held a “Roundtable on Transition to Greatness” there that was attended by then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr and other prominent Republicans.

Morris faces five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said in a Wednesday evening press release.

The indictment comes less than a year after Morris resigned from Gateway Church in Southlake after an adult woman, Cindy Clemishire, said Morris repeatedly sexually assaulted her while she was a child in Oklahoma in the 1980s. Morris was at the time working as a traveling preacher.

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Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/12/robert-morris-texas-megachurch-indicted-sexual-abuse/

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Robert Morris, former Texas megachurch pastor and Trump adviser, indicted for child sex crimes (Original Post) highplainsdem Mar 2025 OP
Not a drag queen in sight, as usual. Aristus Mar 2025 #1
From 2024. Just sick. underpants Mar 2025 #2
Anything to avoid responsibility. He is a republican. Ray Bruns Mar 2025 #7
Will tRump be stupid enough to issue a pardon? groundloop Mar 2025 #3
It's a state-level case and can't be pardoned by king don PSPS Mar 2025 #5
Parallel discussion. (I replied) usonian Mar 2025 #4
Thanks! Just replied to your post there. highplainsdem Mar 2025 #12
Another child molester/pedophile in Trump's circle? I'm shocked, and disgusted, again. 58Sunliner Mar 2025 #6
I'm shocked. Ray Bruns Mar 2025 #8
Demons are real **nt DoBW Mar 2025 #9
Well, in his defense, he was successful in his advice to Donnie! 😁 Wonder Why Mar 2025 #10
Any cabinet positions for this pedophile? Marthe48 Mar 2025 #11
Anyone that fucks around with a kid ought to be killed for it. Space Lemon Mar 2025 #13
I think Donald may agree Mz Pip Mar 2025 #14
Truly should be at the top of the list popsdenver Oct 3 #17
"Vultures of a feather..... lastlib Mar 2025 #15
Pervs of a feather Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2025 #16

Aristus

(71,536 posts)
1. Not a drag queen in sight, as usual.
Wed Mar 12, 2025, 09:12 PM
Mar 2025

I’ll be waiting breathlessly to hear how this is Joe Biden’s fault.

underpants

(194,584 posts)
2. From 2024. Just sick.
Wed Mar 12, 2025, 09:15 PM
Mar 2025

Lawyer for megachurch pastor blamed 12-year-old for initiating ‘inappropriate’ sexual conduct
Letters sent in 2007 by a lawyer for Robert Morris shed light on how the pastor explained his past sexual behavior with a child — and who else might have known about it.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/robert-morris-gateway-church-lawyer-letters-cindy-clemishire-rcna160661

groundloop

(13,553 posts)
3. Will tRump be stupid enough to issue a pardon?
Wed Mar 12, 2025, 09:33 PM
Mar 2025

My guess is yes, at this point he obviously doesn't care what anyone thinks.

PSPS

(15,195 posts)
5. It's a state-level case and can't be pardoned by king don
Wed Mar 12, 2025, 11:20 PM
Mar 2025

But his brown shirts can go after the judge, or the king's proxies in the state government can threaten impeachment or some such intimidation tactic.

Marthe48

(22,628 posts)
11. Any cabinet positions for this pedophile?
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 08:21 AM
Mar 2025

Or any inner circle spots where felon and this criminal can brag about what they get away with?

popsdenver

(1,420 posts)
17. Truly should be at the top of the list
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 09:00 AM
Oct 3

of Capital Crimes, resulting in the Death Penalty.......or at least put in the Gen Pop of a notoriously horrific prison........Only then, would they come to realize the kind of horror that they have afflicted on innocent children......

I can only imagine the numbers of kids that these pervs have assaulted.......by fathers, mothers, doctors, mental health workers, police, teachers, churches, coaches, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts....etc.......anyone in a position of power over kids......

And here we are today, with the leader of the U.S. and many in his CABAL some of the worst ever that have existed in the U.S.A....

lastlib

(27,418 posts)
15. "Vultures of a feather.....
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 10:42 AM
Mar 2025

....flock together."

A match made in hell. Donnie can't pardon him, but Dung-Lord Abbott could. Color me not surprised.

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