Mayor Patrick Vaughan, accused of pedophilia, called Pete Buttigieg his “buddy” and mentor.

Here’s another headache for Mayor Pete.

Patrick Vaughan, the mayor of Maryland arrested Thursday on charges of possession of child pornography, had a long mentor-mentor relationship with President Biden’s Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

Former College Park mayor Wojan, 47, said in an interview that Buttigieg’s “mentoring” helped him advance his career.

“I actually met Mayor Pete Buttigieg shortly after I was elected mayor in 2015,” Vojan, who is gay, says. Washington Blade saidLGBT-focused news publication back in 2019.

Wojjan explained how the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who is also gay, was assigned to be his “buddy” at the Mayors’ Meeting in Washington long before Buttigieg ran for the White House in 2020.

“I was at the DC Winter Conference of Mayors in January. [2015] and he was appointed my friend,” Vozhan told the portal.

Vojan said that after meeting with Buttigieg, they continued to talk on the phone, and both later attended an event at the White House under the Obama administration.

“I now hold the leadership position of Vice Chairman of Urban Improvement and Cycling thanks in part to his mentorship,” Vaughan said of Buttigieg, adding that they will discuss the challenges of being openly gay mayors.

“We talked about balancing competing interests,” Vojan told The Washington Blade.

In 2019, Vojan tweeted a photo of himself hugging Buttigieg, with the caption: “Just two mayors drinking beer together. #mayorpit”

Voyan continued to support his mentor’s 2020 presidential campaign by posting another photo on Twitter from the same year of him wearing a Pete 2020 button with the former mayor of South Bend.

Visitor logs and his social media accounts show that Voyan has visited the White House at least six times since President Biden’s inauguration and since his mentor was appointed head of the Department of Transportation. according to Fox News.

Vojan, who was elected mayor of DC suburban College Park in 2015, abruptly resigned from his post just hours before he was taken into custody by Prince George’s County police on 40 counts of kidnapping. pornography and 16 counts of distributing child pornography. .

“The allegations against former College Park Mayor Patrick Wojan are extremely disturbing, and we are grateful to local law enforcement for intervening,” a spokesman for DOT Fox News Digital said in a statement.

“The secretary did not know the former mayor well, but met him several times through his participation in US Conference of Mayors programs, conferences and political events,” the spokesman added.

Buttigieg has faced calls to resign and even impeachment threats in recent weeks for his handling of a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio that dumped toxic chemicals in a small town.

More than a dozen of his use of taxpayer-subsidized private jets is now also under investigation by his department’s inspector general.

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