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The former Senate staffer accused of being filmed having sex in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room is an environmentalist who has been climbing the ranks of the Democratic Party since he was a teenager and has a history of posting risque comments on social media.

Aidan Maese-Czeropski, 24, was fired from the office of retiring Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) over the weekend following reports that identified him as one of the men filmed having public sex in a committee room leaked from a private WhatsApp group to the Daily Caller.

The allegations put an end to Maese-Czeropski’s two-year career in the senator’s office, with the 24-year-old just recently enjoying a new position as an aide to Cardin’s foreign policy, tax and trade team, according to his LinkedIn account.

Maese-Czeropski, a California native, had first joined Cardin’s office in October 2021 as a staff assistant.

He took the position following a six-month fellowship at Friends of the Earth, a UK-based nonprofit organization focused on environmental research and activism.

Aidan Maese-Czeropski, 24, is an environmentalist who’s interned and worked for Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). Facebook/Aidan Maese-Czeropski
Maese-Czeropski’s face allegedly appeared to be visible in an explicit video filmed in a Senate hearing room.

Maese-Czeropski has a bachelor’s of science in society and environment, having attended the University of California, Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources. He also studied global environmental change and sustainability at Johns Hopkins University.

He appeared to always have an interest in politics, having served as an intern in the office of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) during the summer of 2018.

Prior to that, he served as the news editor for the Palo Alto High School’s Paly Voice newspaper, where he wrote an editorial in 2016 calling on voters to elect Hillary Clinton.

After graduating from Berkeley in 2020, Maese-Czeropski served as a field organizer for the Democratic Party of Virginia, campaigning for President Biden in Loudoun County.

He also worked on the statewide Latino outreach program, “Todos con Biden,” to help register thousands of Spanish-speaking voters.

Maese-Czeropski appeared in a campaign video with Joe Biden as he worked as a field organizer in Virginia. x @JoeBiden

During his time as a field organizer, Maese-Czeropski also appeared in a 2020 campaign video with then-candidate Joe Biden.

Unbeknownst to Biden, the young Democrat he had posed alongside has a tendency to make salacious comments on his now-deleted Venmo account.

One post on March 5, 2020, read: “I want Joe Biden to spit in my mouth.”

Other posts around the time show payments with the memos claiming they were for “Strip dancers,” a “Pineapple shaped dildo,” and “sexual favors.”

Maese-Czeropski made risque comments about Biden prior to working on his Virginia campaign. Venmo/Aidan Maese-Czeropski

The risque posts appeared to come to a head with the leak of the X-rated video which showed Maese-Czeropski having sex with another man in the same room where nominees to the Supreme Court are grilled by senators and where former FBI boss James Comey once testified about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, the Spectator reported on Friday.

“Aidan Maese-Czeropski is no longer employed by the U.S. Senate. We will have no further comment on this personnel matter,” a Cardin spokeswoman told The Post following the news of the video.

The United States Capitol Police have since launched a probe into potential criminal violations after the video began circulating.

The staffer appears to have since deleted his X account.

Maese-Czeropski admitted that he showed “poor judgment,” but claimed in a social media post that he is being victimized over the video.

“I love my job and would never disrespect my workplace,” he wrote. “Any attempts to characterize my actions otherwise are fabricated and I will be exploring what legal options are available to me in these matters.”

The Post has been unable to reach Maese-Czeropski for comment.

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