MAGA "family values" candidate arrested for aggravated assault on a family member...
Meet MAGAt darling Austin McCollum. This four-term Republican Arkansas State Representative and candidate for Benton County Judge was propelled to the front of his party by a laundry list of high-profile MAGA elite endorsements, including U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, Attorney General Tim Griffin, Lieutenant Governor Leslie Rutledge, and Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders herself. Now, that hand-picked darling finds himself trading the halls of the state capitol for a bunk in the Benton County Jail after a late-night arrest blew wide open a horrifying reality that stands in direct opposition to the "family values" platform he and his powerful endorsers so loudly preach to the public.
The criminal allegations leveled against him paint a picture of calculated brutality and terror within his own home. McCollum faces severe felony charges, including first-degree false imprisonment and aggravated assault on a family or household member. The official booking logs also detail a charge of third-degree domestic battery, exposing a pattern of domestic abuse where a position of power was allegedly used to terrorize, trap, and physically harm a loved one behind closed doors.