But a Business Insider review of Johnson’s social media postings and political affiliations found that while he was busy seeking to regulate private sexual behavior and castigating his opponents as “groomers” of children, the Louisiana Republican was associated with a coterie of right-wing activists with a history of overlooking, tolerating, or ignoring the sexual abuse of children and teens in their own midst.

Most notably, according to a photo posted to his Facebook account and unearthed by Business Insider, Johnson proudly campaigned in 2014 with a man who would become one of the most notorious sex offenders in recent history — disgraced reality TV star Josh Duggar.

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    “A man is known by the company he keeps”

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      “Why’d you eat that leaf?”

      -Aesop Rock

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        “Every couple summers, me and a couple hunters, like to row in from the isle of astonishing mother fuckers…”

        -Hail Mary Mallon

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        “If it’s out of the bag, then it’s out of bag, Now that is a powerful cat”

        -Aesop Rock

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