Trump’s ‘Pro Life’ IRS Nominee Reportedly Followed NSFW X Accounts

A new report shows that Billy Long, President Trump’s nominee to run the Internal Revenue Service—a man who, during his run for Congress, characterized himself as “pro-life”—has an X account that recently followed a number of NSFW accounts, including some featuring pregnant women. Predictably, the White House has blamed the account’s preoccupation with racy material on a hack.

Rolling Stone magazine writes that the X account for Long, a former GOP congressman from Missouri, follows some 8,000 profiles, including several that involve porn or porn-adjacent material. One such account, dubbed “Pregnant Redhead,” is, while not porn, exactly, a prolific poster of tradwife-type content that fetishizes female domesticity. Other accounts Long allegedly followed included more explicit pages featuring naked pregnant women.

Some of these accounts are a bizarre hodgepodge of material. For instance, one account that RS points to does include a number of videos of naked pregnant women. However, it also includes videos of a lot of other stuff, including WWE and sports clips.

Other accounts that Long’s account allegedly followed were just your basic, run-of-the-mill porn accounts. RS describes them thusly:

…These X accounts might be described as stealth porn. Nothing in the handle or the profile picture identifies the account as NSFW. But the posts are dominated by sexual images of women. One of these accounts has only a single piece of content — a “repost” of an adult creator who lists her age as 26 and describes herself as a “big booty milf.” (MILF is an acronym for a popular porn category involving mothers.) The post caption reads “I fuck back,” and it features a video loop of the adult creator, filmed naked from behind, riding a dildo.

Pregnancy has also been a policy position for Long. RS cites an archived version of a website for Long’s congressional race, which states: “Billy is 100 percent pro-life. He believes in the sanctity of human life, beginning at conception, and fights to protect the rights of the unborn.”

The White House has predictably blamed Long’s NSFW follows on a shadowy conspiracy of nebulous proportions. “This is absolute bullshit and not something the congressman would ever do,” a senior Trump transition official told Gizmodo. “Clearly there has been unauthorized access to the account in the 11th hour before his hearing, and we are currently investigating the matter, including reporting it to X.” While a hack of Long’s account seems somewhat fantastical, there are, hypothetically, other potentially innocent explanations for the follows. For instance, the account may have followed profiles that didn’t immediately seem pornographic but which later posted porn. Gizmodo reached out to Long via a DM for more information. It was unclear how to otherwise contact him.

Long follows in the footsteps of a long line of congressmen who have been linked to social media accounts that indulge in racy material. Most recently, Mark Robinson, the unsuccessful MAGA gubernatorial candidate for North Carolina, was reportedly linked to a number of porn accounts. Robinson denied affiliation with the accounts.