GOP candidate for PA Lt. Gov. is banned from his home for threatening his wife, child, & dog

Teddy Daniels is a Republican candidate for Pennsylvania’s Lt. Governor position. He is a MAGA zealot. He has met, and worships, Trump. And has based his campaign on the Big Lie  He is also an accused serial abuser. And he has been ejected from the family home after his wife asked a court for emergency protection. It is not his first at-bat. He has now been called out for domestic abuse in court papers by three different women.

The latest chapter in his tale of partner abuse came to a head last weekend. According to handwritten notes, which Daniels’ wife submitted to the court, the PA state police came to their home after being called to do a wellness check. She said,

“After they left, Ted became very agitated about who called the State Troopers and accused my family of talking to Rolling Stone about his prior domestic violence. He falsely accused me of talking to Rolling Stone. He was verbally abusive and I called State Police.”

[Note: Rolling Stone had previously reported on Teddy Daniels and his history of violence]

When the State Police returned to the Daniels’ home on Sunday, they suggested her husband leave the home overnight to “cool things down” and said she should request a “protection from abuse” (PFA) order. Which she did. On Monday, she initially received an “order granting emergency protection from abuse” to her and her child. On Tuesday, a separate order extended those protections.

Now Daniels is barred from the couple’s home in Lake Ariel, PA. He is forbidden to contact his wife, who the court granted temporary custody over their child. The order further bars Daniels from possessing any firearms while the order is in effect. This is sensible as Daniels seems to be an angry guy. As his wife told the court, Daniels returned home at 6 am on Monday and confronted her. She explained,

“He asked if I was going to file a [protection from abuse order] and I started crying. I started to go to the courthouse and he tried not to let me go. Ted followed me to the courthouse and came into the courthouse.” 

She added, “He stalks me at work, screaming at me, making me cry. He cursed at me continually and our son repeats it to me,” she writes. “He has constantly said he would throw myself and our son out of the house and, if he lost the campaign, I wouldn’t have a place to live in three weeks.”

Daniels was not alone in trying to browbeat his wife, his campaign got in on the act. As Mrs. Daniels further wrote,

“Ted’s Campaign Manager has called me twelve (12) times to persuade me not to file this PFA. He has threatened to investigate who made wellness calls to the State Police unless I dropped the emergency PFA + didn’t file a temporary PFA.”

She finished,

“I am afraid of him and what he will do to me and our son. He [threatens] to kill himself,”

Rolling Stone has reported two previous claims of violence against Daniels. In 2013, during a custody battle, an ex-wife of Daniels asked the district court of Maryland for an order of protection, citing alleged “domestic violence.” The petition also accused Daniels of harassing her at her workplace. The order was not granted.

And In an earlier relationship, Daniels had sued a woman seeking visitation and custody of a child they’d had together. In 1999, a lawyer for that woman accused Daniels of having previously “engaged in conduct which has been threatening” to the woman and made her feel “justifiably unsafe.” Despite that contention, the presiding officer granted Daniels visitation.

The report also states that during his career as a law enforcement officer he was the subject of an “internal affairs investigation” that concluded he had engaged in “unbecoming conduct” by “providing deceptive information to an investigator” and “using official state record for personal reasons.” Local newspaper accounts also indicate that Daniels was suspended and ultimately agreed to separate from a different police department in 2010.

The piece also reveals that Daniels was chronically in arrears with child support. And he had multiple professional lapses as a police officer. For the full story click: “Domestic-Abuse Allegation Haunts Law-and-Order MAGA Candidate.”

Daniels reacted to the Rolling Stone article in a way that must be familiar to his domestic partners. In February, when asked about his prior abuse allegations, Daniels sent Rolling Stone a short statement that described those accusations as “FALSE, and MALICIOUS ALLEGATIONS.” Days after the article was published, he posted an angry, lengthy video rant on Facebook dismissing the story as a “smear piece.”

“Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome investigative journalism. You pulled public records. Like, does that impress me? You know, do you think that that’s investigative journalism? You pulled public records. Rolling Stone, take your bullshit and shove it.”

What a nasty person. And how typical of today’s GOP.