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The U.S. Capitol Building, and former Senate staffer Aiden Maese-Czeropski holding a microphone.
Aidan Maese-Czeropski was fired after a video of him having sex in the Senate hearing room was leaked.
Aidan Maese-Czeropski, best known as "the Senate Twink," has revealed the story behind his infamous sex video filmed in a room in the Senate building. Hey Siri, play "What Was That" by Lorde.
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"It's hard to say that I learned a lesson," Aidan Maese-Czeropski says in a new interview with the Intelligencer. "Who cares? The only person I negatively affected was myself. I bear those consequences. But I don't regret f*cking in the Senate," he adds.
Maese-Czeropski, known online as the "Senate Twink," caused a political sex scandal while working as a Senate staffer for then-Maryland senator Ben Cardin. After he filmed himself having sex with another man in a Senate hearing room, the video leaked to far-right outlet The Daily Caller.
On December 15, 2023, it was reported that the U.S. Capitol Police were investigating a video of two men having sex in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill. By December 16, Maese-Czeropski had been fired from his job as a Senate staffer. In February 2024, Capitol Police officers said they found no evidence that a crime was committed.
Maese-Czeropski has now had a year and a half to think about the events, and in speaking with the Intelligencer, offers some insight into what kicked them off. He says boredom was the main drive.
"The pay is shit. The hours are shit. It's shit knowing that you're not actually doing anything," Maese-Czeropski says of his attitude toward his job before the scandal. "I was so eager to go to work, get the job done, and go home.
"I would come in nine hours a day, sit there bored out of my f*cking mind," he continues. "So yeah. I'm going to entertain myself and f*ck in a room."
Maese-Czeropski says that his therapist has encouraged him to consider that self-sabotage was also a factor.
"In some sense, I f*cked in the Senate because I was miserable and wanted a way out," he says.
In April, Maese-Czeropski told Gay Sydney News that he stayed in a psychiatric hospital after the incident. Now, he is seeing a therapist regularly, was diagnosed with PTSD, and started taking medication.
"I don't have any shame in that because when you go through something like that, it is just overwhelming and difficult to even comprehend," he says.
After his hospital stay, Maese-Czeropski moved to Australia and started an OnlyFans account under the name Senate Twink Official.
"People ask me, 'What now? You can't work in politics.' But I was so depressed when I worked in politics," he tells the Intelligencer. "It's almost a blessing in disguise. Now, I'm living in Australia, living the good life."
Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.
Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.
