CNN: Congressman Joe Barton Raises Possibility He’s the Victim of Revenge Porn

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SERFATY: "A lot of questions about this after a sexually explicit photo of Texas Republican congressman Joe Barton surfaced on the Internet this week on an anonymous Twitter account. Barton has apologized for the lewd photos but also raised the possibility that he’s the victim of revenge porn. Barton's spokeswoman tells CNN Barton did not release the image himself and he does not know who released the image. An unnamed woman has come forward telling 'The Washington Post' that Barton did indeed send her lewd photos and videos and messages when they had two sexual encounters over the course of five years. The woman told 'The Post' that she slept with him last in 2014 and she said, 'I was in it for the politics connection.' The woman shared a secretly recorded phone call from 2015 with the paper, and according to 'The Post,' in that call Barton warned her against using the explicit images he had sent her in a way that would negatively affect his career, vowing that he would go to the Capitol Hill Police over her threats. The woman told 'The Post' that she took the phone call as a threat and Congressman Barton says it was to stop her from publicly releasing the images as revenge porn which Texas outlawed in 2015."