“Moderate” Republican New York Congressman Mike Lawler, a swing district d-bag nobody likes, is also apparently a Michael Jackson stan and molestation denier, according to an entertainment reporter who wrote a Jackson biography published after the creepy pop star’s death in 2009, so much so that the then 18 year-old Lawler got himself tossed out of the courtroom for cursing under his breath while an alleged molestation victim’s mom testified, the Daily Beast reports.

“A friend of mine named Michael Lawler – an ardent Jackson admirer who had followed the proceedings so closely he knew the evidence better than even I did – had flown in from New York to attend the trial,” wrote J Randy Taraborrelli in Michael Jackson: The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story. Per Taraborrelli’s account, Lawler was “so disgusted” by Janet Arvizo’s testimony “that he couldn’t help but mutter something derogatory under his breath. Overheard by the officials, he promptly got tossed right out of the courtroom,” with a sheriff’s deputy later warning Taraborrelli that “the next time you help someone get into here, you’d better tell him to keep his trap shut.”

Lawler still remains a Jackson superfan nearly five years after the documentary Leaving Neverland premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. So horrific and disturbing were the details of Jackson’s predation of young boys that Sundance’s organizers hired mental health counselors to wait in the theater’s lobby to help audience members. “It’s true that Congressman Lawler – who is known to have performed the Moonwalk once or twice – is a fan of Michael Jackson’s music and even attended one of his last concerts at Madison Square Garden in 2001,” a spokesman told the Beast.