Self-described “working class” Democrat congressional hopeful Hanna Trudo was exposed after conservative podcast hosts discovered her Ferrari ownership and membership on a millionaire dating site.

Trudo, a former journalist for The Daily Beast, Politico, and The Hill, announced her potential congressional run for New Hampshire’s first district in early May, claiming that she grew up in a “working-class” family that received heating assistance.

“Like many families, we received heating assistance at times to get through our freezing winters. While my mom was not able to go to college or buy a home due to the high cost of living, she worked tirelessly as a public school Title 1 reading aide,” Trudo wrote in her campaign announcement, according to the Daily Mail.

The hosts of the conservative “Ruthless” podcast began investigating Trudo’s background after she initially offered to appear on their show, but then reportedly ghosted producers for several weeks.

Their investigation uncovered a profile on Luxy, an exclusive dating website that requires users to have a “verified annual income” exceeding $200,000 and describes itself as a platform where “only sophisticated, successful and people of quality join.”

According to Luxy’s website, “60% of our members have a verified annual income of more than €200,000,” or $223,000, and “41% verified income greater than €1 million,” or $1.1 million.

On the dating profile featuring her name and photo, Trudo described herself as a “senior political correspondent, splitting my time between DC (weekdays), NYC, & Miami (for fun).”

The podcast team also discovered that Trudo had posted an image of a Ferrari on social media, offering it for sale.

Trudo responded to the Daily Mail article on X, writing: “Sorry gentlemen, I like fashion AND Medicare for All! $15 minimum wage.”

“You can try and shame me into not running for NH1 because you hate progressives, but not for being a fabulous woman.”

Sorry gentlemen, I like fashion AND Medicare for All! $15 minimum wage.

You can try and shame me into not running for #NH1 because you hate progressives, but not for being a fabulous woman

Live Free or Die #nhpolitics https://t.co/7NxPKLSEAB

— Hanna Trudo (@HCTrudo) May 16, 2025

Trudo initially announced her interest in running for Congress with messaging focused heavily on working-class advocacy.

“I’m simply writing with the same fire I’ve spit for the past decade: Democrats must be better,” she wrote in her campaign memo, per NBC News.

“Under Donald Trump’s off-brand of authoritarian politics, we are no longer free. Our First Amendment freedoms are being cruelly ripped away by Trump, Elon Musk and other obscenely rich, unelected tech lackeys who have contempt for us.”

She specifically cited Senator Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) failed presidential campaign as her inspiration to explore a run for office, emphasizing that “new blood matters alongside a working class agenda.”

Her announcement was met with amusement from conservative media outlets, who pointed to her candidacy as more evidence that many Washington, D.C., journalists harbor partisan Democratic leanings while claiming journalistic objectivity.

The Washington Free Beacon combed through Trudo’s tweets, revealing a “left-wing activist feed” convinced that America was “no longer free” under President Donald, in addition to less-than-objective headlines like “Sanders steps back into role as anti-oligarch crusader.”

NEW: Hanna Trudo, a journalist who covered the Democratic Party for The Hill, is “exploring” a run for Congress in New Hampshire.

It seems redundant to mention that Trudo would be running as a Democrat, but there you have it.@AndrewStilesUSA has reviewed Trudo’s social media… pic.twitter.com/FPemlT9kKa

— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) May 6, 2025

New Hampshire’s first congressional district is currently represented by Democrat Rep. Chris Pappas, who announced that he is running for Senate in 2026.

A former police officer was charged last week with leaking the writings of the transgender-identifying woman who murdered three children and three adults at the Covenant School in March 2023.

But retired Lt. Garet Davidson — who was arrested and jailed on May 6 — says that he’s innocent. Davidson claims he’s being retaliated against for a complaint he filed against the department criticizing its Covenant investigation in May 2024, four months after he retired.

Davidson’s May 2024 complaint against the police department alleges numerous instances of misconduct by top police officials, including mismanagement of the Covenant investigation, a pattern of bias in disciplinary investigations, altering performance results for low-achieving recruits, avoiding accountability, and failure to follow sexual harassment policies.

Davidson’s legal team believes that the charges were brought in retaliation for his efforts to expose problems at the police department.

“The charges against retired MNPD Lieutenant Garet Davidson represent a transparent attempt to discredit and silence a whistleblower who exposed serious misconduct within the Metro Nashville Police Department,” Davidson’s legal team said. “We look forward to vigorously defending Mr. Davidson against these retaliatory charges.”

Davidson has been outspoken about the investigation into the Covenant shooting, telling conservative radio host Michael Patrick Leahy in June 2024 that the FBI sent a memo to police instructing them not to release any details of the attacker’s writings.

At the time, Davidson said that he had some concerns that there would be action taken against him based on the information he had shared about the FBI memo.

“I don’t put it beyond anybody,” he said. “Part of the reason why I left law enforcement was to avoid some aspects of retaliation, but that doesn’t guarantee anything.”

In the charges unveiled last week, Davidson is accused of being involved in the leak of the writings of the woman who entered the Covenant School, a Christian school in an affluent Nashville neighborhood, on March 27, 2023, and murdered six people before she was killed by police.

Following the attack, the police announced that the shooter had a “manifesto,” but refused to release it to the public. Despite that refusal, media outlets, including The Daily Wire, obtained portions and uncovered that the shooter wrote frequently of her desire to be a man and anger at her parents for resisting her so-called transition.

Prior to his arrest last week, Davidson had been linked to the police department’s investigation into the leak.

His home was raided by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation in November 2024 in relation to the investigation into the leak. He faces two indictments: one charges him with theft, two counts of burglary, and 30 counts of official misconduct; the other charges him with six counts of official misconduct related to the Covenant School shooting.

The raid came after he was named in a June 2024 court filing on the leak, though he was not directly named as a leaker. That came just weeks after he filed a misconduct complaint against the police department, which included criticism of the Covenant investigation.

A GoFundMe Davidson set up to help with his legal expenses has been shut down. A spokesman for the platform told The Daily Wire that the fundraiser was removed because of its policies not to raise money for “the legal defense of financial and violent crimes, including those related to money laundering, murder, robbery, assault, battery, sex crimes or crimes against minors.”

The spokesman did not further elaborate on why the fundraiser had been shut down.

Last month, the Nashville police department released its final investigative report into the shooting. The report, released over two years after the attack, downplayed the attacker’s hatred of Christianity and fixation on gender ideology and “white privilege.”