Police have reportedly obtained a second sex tape in their investigation into rape allegations against Florida Republican Chairman Christian Ziegler.
The video features Bridget Ziegler, co-founder of Ziegler, Moms for Liberty, and an unidentified woman. The video was found after police searched Ziegler's phone and email account, according to the Florida Trident.
It would be the second video Sarasota police have found in the investigation of Ziegler, who is accused of raping a friend after she backed out of a threesome with him and his wife. Ziegler reportedly admitted to recording the October meeting, but he claims it was consensual.
It is not clear whether the woman in the second video is the accuser who appears in the first. Bridget told police that she and her husband had previously had a sexual encounter with the accuser.
Since the allegations emerged, Christian Ziegler has retained his position as GOP chairman but was stripped of his salary and authority last Sunday.
Police have reportedly obtained a second sex tape in their investigation into rape allegations against Florida Republican Chairman Christian Ziegler, seen with his wife Bridget.
The video reportedly shows Ziegler's wife Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler and an unidentified woman
Meanwhile, the Sarasota County School Board has passed a resolution demanding Bridget resign from the board. However, the board cannot force her to resign and she has given no indication that she plans to leave her position.
The resolution was written by board chair Karen Rose, who said in an email that she is “shocked and deeply saddened” by the rape allegations involving Ziegler's husband and the couple's admissions that they previously had a sexual encounter with the prosecutor had.
Before the rally, several dozen people marched outside holding signs and chanting, “Hey, ho ho, Bridget Ziegler has got to go.” Among the signs were the slogans “Ban Bridget, not books” and “Real women are not homophobes.”
Police records showing the Zieglers had group sex with a woman have led Democrats and gay rights leaders to accuse the couple of hypocrisy, as an organization Bridget Ziegler co-founded — Moms for Liberty — has joined DeSantis and the Florida GOP in reducing LGBTQ+. causes.
DailyMail.com has contacted the Sarasota Police Department and the Zieglers for comment on this story.
A search warrant in the case revealed that Ziegler told detectives that he did have sex with the accuser on October 2, but that it was consensual.
The longtime Republican activist rose to the state party's top position in February. He claims to be innocent and the victim of a political blow.
The rape allegation against Ziegler became public after the Florida Center for Government Accountability, an investigative news organization, obtained a police report and search warrant affidavits detailing the allegations.
The Sarasota County School Board has passed a resolution demanding Bridget resign from the board. However, the board cannot force her to resign
Since the allegations emerged, Christian Ziegler has retained his position as GOP chairman, but was stripped of his salary and authority last Sunday
Ziegler previously received the endorsement of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for her seat on the Sarasota school board. He has since encouraged her husband to resign over the sex scandal
The accuser, who has known Ziegler for 20 years, told police that when Bridget backed out of the plan to have sex, she sent Christian a text saying, “Sorry I was mainly after her,” according to an affidavit .
Later that night, the woman claims she discovered Ziegler outside in the hallway as she left her apartment – and claims he then entered her property and raped her.
Weeks later, detectives began monitoring Christian Ziegler's calls and messages to the accuser, the affidavit said.
'Where are you? Do you want to meet and chat? Worried about you. You are my friend,” Ziegler allegedly wrote in a message via Instagram.
“No, not after what you did to me,” the woman replied. “Don't you understand that I'm terrified of you?”
A 911 call obtained by the Florida Center for Government Accountability made by a friend of the alleged victim reveals that she had confided in the friend about rape.
“She told me she had been raped,” the friend told the dispatcher on October 4.
“She says she's scared, that the person who raped her has come to her house, so she's scared to leave… I'm worried about her now,” the friend explained.
In text and phone conversations tracked by investigators, Ziegler offered the woman “financial assistance” before he suspected they were being recorded.
