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We Got This Covered
We Got This Covered
David James

MAGA TikTok influencer and school playground assistant arrested for, you guessed it, mountains of CSAM

Is anyone else starting to notice a pattern? MAGA is constantly screaming about how they need to protect kids from evil immigrants, trans people, liberals, and anyone who doesn’t pass the paper bag test. But behind closed doors? They’re getting up to some truly repugnant stuff.

Enter Joshua Lee Hefner, a MAGA TikTok influencer and playground assistant at Dixieland Elementary School, Madera County, California. Hefner boasts an impressive 459k followers on TikTok, where he can be seen wearing his MAGA cap and rambling nonsensically about all things Trump.

Well, law enforcement cops showed up at his home “after receiving digital evidence connected to suspected child sexual abuse material” linked to him from two anonymous sources. Cops examined his electronic devices and, to absolutely nobody’s surprise, they were riddled with child sexual abuse material.

Hefner was taken into custody and we expected charges to be filed soon. In a tiny silver lining, cops have at least confirmed that there are no Dixieland Elementary School pupils identified as victims in this case.

No, seriously, why does this keep happening?

It may be time for a general warning to be given to parents about letting anyone with MAGA inclinations near their children. Each day seems to expose rabid Trump supporters whose protests about “protecting kids” are a smokescreen for abusing them.

For example, multiple Jan 6 rioters have been caught either abusing children or in possession of CSAM. One of them, Andrew Paul Johnson, even crept into a young boy’s home to abuse him right under his parents’ noses, before promising to pay him off with money he’d be getting from Trump!

Then there’s Daniel Tocci, who was discovered with over 100,000 images of child abuse on his devices, and Andrew Taak, who was arrested for online solicitation of a minor.

These are only the ones that made the news, and a December 2025 analysis by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington identified at least 33 pardoned individuals rearrested, charged, or sentenced for other crimes overall, including at least 6 for child sex crimes (ranging from sexual assault/molestation to CSAM possession/production).

The rot goes upwards, too. This week saw the jaw-dropping news that Republicans blocked an amendment that would have blocked those convicted of being child predators from receiving million-dollar payouts from the US government.

And, of course, sitting like a Lich King at the top of all this depravity is Jeffrey Epstein, who’s at least as prominent in death as he was in life. And you don’t need me to repeat how the modern era’s most notorious pedophile is directly linked to the Trump administration and Donald Trump himself.

I’m sure many MAGA fans have absolutely no sexual interest in children whatsoever, but after all this, would you let an outspoken Trump supporter babysit your kid? Sure, they probably won’t abuse them, but is it really worth taking that chance?

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