A Convicted Sex Offender Was the Face of a New Trump Dating Site

A new dating site intended for Trump-admirers seeking other Trump-admirers for romance, Trump.Dating, up until the last few days featured the image of a convicted sex offender, Barrett Riddleberger, alongside his wife Jodi on its homepage, wearing his-and-hers hats reading "Trump" and "Make America Great Again." Details of Riddleberger's past were first reported by North Carolina paper Greensboro News & Record, in an article published in 2014, and resurfaced this week after local news outlets looked into Riddleberger's history. Riddleberger was convicted of "indecent liberty with a child", a felony, in 1995, according to North Carolina Department of Public Safety records. Although the file doesn't describe the crime in detail, the conviction reportedly stemmed from a 1993 incident in which Riddleberger videotaped himself having sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 25, according to the News & Record account. The site claims to "make dating great again" by "wrecking the dating game and giving like-minded Americans a chance to meet without the awkwardness that comes with the first conversation about politics," according to their website, and has attracted criticism for only allowing users to sign up as "straight men" or "straight women."