The Biggest Palin Family Scandals

Just one day before Donald Trump called Sarah Palin to endorse him to be the first orange president, her oldest child, son Track Palin, was arrested for alleged domestic violence. People reports that police responded to multiple 911 calls at the Palin family home, where they found Track allegedly reeking of booze and with an injury to his eye. Track's girlfriend, Jordan Loewe, told authorities they'd had a fight. Track is being charged with domestic violence assault, interfering with the reporting of a domestic violence crime and possessing weapons while intoxicated. He reportedly physically assaulted Loewe in addition to threatening to shoot himself with an AR-15 assault rifle.

Sarah Palin used her son's violent incident to take shots at President Barack Obama, releasing a statement (via NBC News) saying, "My son, like so many others, they come back a bit different, they come back hardened, they come back wondering if there is that respect for what it is that their fellow soldiers...so sacrificially have given to this country...The question though it comes from our own president, when they have to look at him and wonder, do you know what we go through? Do you know what we're trying to do to secure America and to secure the freedoms that have been bequeathed us? So when my own son is going through what he goes through, coming back, I can certainly relate with other families who feel these ramifications of some PTSD and some of the woundedness that our soldiers do return with."

With Bristol's pregnancy came Johnston's launch into the media microscope. To say he didn't necessarily make the best choices may be an understatement. While it's fair that Johnston may not have had a chance at a normal life after being outed as a political figure's soon-to-be teen dad and son-in-law, he kept killing the little chance he had: he posed for Playgirl, wrote a book, tried running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, hung out with Kathy Griffin, and briefly had a reality show called Mansformation in 2013. He married Sunny Oglesby in 2012, with the couple's first daughter, Breeze Beretta (you know, like the gun) Johnston being born a month prior to the wedding. He may be better off going back to the Alaskan oil fields where he was previously employed.

Just days before her scheduled wedding to Marine and Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer, Bristol and Sarah Palin announced that the engagement was off. However, both families still got together for a giant party, because, well, the place was paid for already.

Meanwhile, after all that work to prevent pregnancy, Bristol revealed in June 2015 that she was pregnant. She never specified the father at the time, but most assumed (and were correct) that it's Meyer, her Marine ex-fiance with whom she split only a month earlier. Meyer claimed that the Palin family deliberately tried to alienate him from daughter Sailor after her birth in December 2015, something Sarah denied, telling People, "For many months we have been trying to reach out to Dakota Myers [sic] and he has wanted nothing to do with either Bristol's pregnancy or the baby." Maybe they didn't reach the right guy considering she can't even spell the last name of the man who almost married her daughter.

In The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, McGinniss says that Sarah and Todd Palin got married simply because she got pregnant with son Track while they were together...and their marriage hasn't been exactly peachy. The book alleges that Sarah had an affair with Todd's then-business partner for six months in 1996. Todd reportedly cut his business ties with Hanson upon learning of the alleged relationship.

Radar Online reports that Willow Palin has a taste for vodka. Willow's classmates told Life & Style that she got wasted at a party in 2009 when she was just 15 years old. Months later, a classmate reportedly spied Willow buying marijuana in a Target parking lot. You know your family is dysfunctional when two-bit drug deals are the least scandalous skeleton in your closet.