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The earliest known reports of Pressler’s abuse date back to the 1970s, when he was working with young people at a Presbyterian church in Texas. According to court records, the church removed him after learning of an “alleged incident” at his home involving a young member of the church. A former youth group member later claimed that Pressler grabbed him and fondled his penis when they were alone in a country club sauna. (Country Club? Natch Where else, bro?)
Rumors about Pressler might, in fact, have caused him to withdraw his name from Senate consideration for head of the Office of Government Ethics. As Downen reported, “In a 2005 letter, Patterson acknowledged that Pressler’s nomination was scuttled by a ‘charge of homosexual behavior’ made to the F.B.I. by Abner McCall, a past Baylor University president.” Pressler used this incident to turn himself, in Downen’s words, into a “victim of vengeful liberals who would do anything to destroy God-fearing men.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/opin ... ssler.html
Rumors about Pressler might, in fact, have caused him to withdraw his name from Senate consideration for head of the Office of Government Ethics. As Downen reported, “In a 2005 letter, Patterson acknowledged that Pressler’s nomination was scuttled by a ‘charge of homosexual behavior’ made to the F.B.I. by Abner McCall, a past Baylor University president.” Pressler used this incident to turn himself, in Downen’s words, into a “victim of vengeful liberals who would do anything to destroy God-fearing men.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/opin ... ssler.html