Jim Bob Duggar Loses Arkansas State Senate Primary Election Days After Son Josh Duggar’s Child Porn Conviction

‘Tis the season! The Duggar family got into the Christmas spirit despite their recent string of controversies, including Josh Duggar‘s recent trial verdict.

We hope you didn’t spend even a moment during your holiday celebrations casting a thought to how Josh Duggar was spending Christmas. But now a couple days removed we thought you might be curious on the reports coming out of Arkansas.

Jill Duggar's husband made the accusation in a comment on a Facebook post, saying he «used to have much respect for Jim Bob» but that «it's only become clearer to us over time just how deep this man's manipulation and deceit will go for his own gain, at the expense for others.» ET has reached out to Dillard's reps for comment. Jim Bob Duggar's reps had no comment at this time.Dillard continued, «He has lied to my wife and I numerous times.

Jim Bob Duggar, patriarch of the family shot to fame by TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting,” lost his bid for a Republican nomination to the Arkansas State Senate. His loss comes days after one of his sons, Josh Duggar, was convicted of downloading and possessing child pornography.

Derick Dillard sounded off on Jim Bob Duggar in a Facebook post hours before the family patriarch lost his run for the Arkansas State Senate.  Derick responded to a post by Jim Holt, a former close friend of Jim Bob’s who took to his own Facebook to accuse him of lying about his son Josh Duggar’s past both to him and under oath at an evidentiary hearing on Nov.

Too bad, so sad, Jim Bob Duggar!

announced his bid for the state senate seat back in October. At the time, the Arkansas native said he felt it was his duty to run for office now because «these are unprecedented times in our nation.»Jim Bob's defeat came just days after the Duggar family was rocked by two separate scandals.

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How do you handle a child porn conviction in the family while running for office? Well, if you’re Jim Bob Duggar, you take no accountability for your role in it and treat it like a tragic thing that happened to your family.

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Northwest Arkansas locals who have been living in the same community as the Duggar family for years are "ecstatic" about Josh Duggar's conviction on child pornography charges, telling Fox News they hope to see him sentenced to the maximum amount of years in prison. The former "19 Kids and Counting" star faces up to 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines for each count when he's sentenced sometime in 2022.

Moments after Josh Duggar was found guilty of receiving and possessing child pornography, his wife, Anna Duggar, solemnly left the Fayetteville, Arkansas, courthouse.

The jury rests. Josh Duggar smiled in his mugshot after he was officially convicted in his months-long child pornography trial.

Josh Duggar‘s mugshot was released shortly after the 33-year-old was declared guilty of receiving and possessing child porn in Arkansas on December 9. Josh smiled in the mugshot, which can be seen HERE, while wearing a white collared shirt.

Anna Duggar was spotted looking emotionless on her way out of the Arkansas federal courthouse where her husband, Josh Duggar, was convicted of child pornography possession on Thursday. Anna, 33, exited the John Paul Hammerschmidt Federal Building dressed in a black dress and matching peacoat, with a protective face mask on.  A jury found, Josh, 33, guilty on one count each of receiving and possessing child pornography.

Sigh of relief. Before Josh Duggar was found guilty in his child pornography trial, Derick Dillard made his stance on the subject abundantly clear.

Former 19 Years and Counting star Josh Duggar, 33, was convicted today on two counts of receiving and possessing child pornography. It took a Fayetteville, Arkansas jury one day to deliver the verdict.

Josh Duggar, 33, could spend up to 40 years in prison and be fined as much as a half-a-million dollars, now that he’s been found guilty of receiving and possessing child porn. The former reality star’s verdict came after a seven hour deliberation following the trial that began on Nov 30.

Josh Duggar has been found guilty of two charges of child pornography. On Thursday, the jury of a Fayetteville, Arkansas, court found the former star guilty on both counts of receiving and possessing child pornography. The former reality television star faces up to 20 years in prison and fines up to $250,000 per count. Jury deliberations started Wednesday, after the prosecution and defense delivered closing arguments.

Jennifer Yuma editorJosh Duggar, who appeared on the TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting,” has been found guilty of child pornography charges. He faces up to 20 years in prison.A jury in Fayetteville, Ark., found Duggar guilty on one count each of receiving and possessing child pornography.