Aaron Scott

Aaron Matthew Scott (Born May 11, 1956) is an American politician and jurist who is the 4th and current since March 2022. He previously served as the 11th president of the United States from December 2021 to March 2022. His immense popularity and rapid response to the events of his presidency have led many historians to in American history.

Scott was easily elected to the Senate, becoming the first Republican to represent Cambridge in the Senate. Scott was quickly elected to be Majority Leader, with his main goal of being increasing activity. During his time as Majority Leader, Scott oversaw a massive increase of sessions via voice call. The activity was increased and observers noted the highest amount of bipartisanship seen in a long time, attributing it to Scott’s leadership. After Scott was sworn in for a second term, the Capitol was stormed by a group of extremist insurrectionists. After shooing Senators and then-Vice President Jakob Goldwater to a safe, undisclosed location, Scott was shot to the ground. He was then rescued by a Capitol Police Officer, Leroy Brown. Brown was later killed by another insurrectionist later that day. After recovering, Scott introduced legislation to award Office Brown the Congressional Gold Medal, which passed unanimously in both chambers. Scott later said that the incident “scared the hell out of me,” and that “my faith was restored in our country because of the actions of Officer Brown, we healed and mourned together as a nation and I will forever be in awe of that moment in our history.” Halfway through his second team, Scott was accused of various crimes by disgraced former politician Edwin House. In House’s dossier, Scott was said to be complicit in the importation of alts into the server. Scott, who was later cleared of all charges, became increasingly frustrated. This so-called “dossier” led to the mass exodus of politicians and supporters away from the Republican Party, the party Scott helped lead to dominance in DES. After one of his closest friends, Harry Bennett, conspired with other Senators to leave the GOP and form their own party, Scott resigned and left the server. Bennett and Scott soon reconciled, but Scott maintained he was not interested in returning to DES.

After Bennett was elected President, Scott was offered the position of Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Scott accepted, but his nomination was stalled by the Democratic-controlled Senate. After the entire Judiciary Committee failed to show up for three confirmation hearings, Scott’s nomination was failed by the committee for no reason. Scott, obviously frustrated, announced his intention to run for the U.S. Senate in New Columbia to kickstart activity and bipartisanship. Scott, who argued the Senate was “broken, once again,” ran on a pragmatic platform and defeated incumbent Democratic Senator Hillary Sanders by 6 points. Scott was elected President Pro Tempore of the Senate and quickly went to work to pass legislation and work with newly elected President Brett Cawthorn. Scott was frequently named as a future presidential or vice presidential candidate, but Scott frequently denied interest. Then-Vice President Brian Ainsley was increasingly inactive. Reports at the time said the White House was dissatisfied with the Vice President, with some aides close to President Cawthorn eviscerating Ainsley for his disloyalty when breaking the tie in a PPT vote in favor of Senator Joshua Cooley, and against the White House’s preferred candidate, Scott. Ainsley also intended on not running for re-election, and President Cawthorn began looking for candidates to replace him. Cawthorn’s first choice during his first campaign, Scott, was then selected to be the President’s running mate for Season 7.

Cawthorn, with a record of accomplishments, faced a primary challenge from a far-right extremist, Davy Long. Long quickly garnered support, campaigning on conspiracy theories, and socialistic economic ideas, even going as far as privately referring to himself as a “classical fascist.” Cawthorn decided to suspend his campaign and helped Scott draft DES Owner Everett Terry into the race. Scott supported Terry and was once again offered Vice President. Scott declined, wanting to stay in the Senate but advised Terry to choose his fellow New Columbia Senator, Nate Romney. Scott later said that denying the Vice Presidency in Season 7 was his “best decision, by far, in DES.”

Terry and Romney were elected in a very close election against Cambridge Senator Robert Sanders. Scott scoffed at allegations by some Sanders supporters that the election was rigged, saying “This is just childish. Sometimes you win elections, sometimes you lose elections. It’s part of the process. There is zero proof to any of these bogus allegations. You lost, just accept it and move on.” Scott went to work in the Senate, returning as PPT, running unopposed. Scott began noticing trouble brewing internationally and was privately disappointed with a variety of the administration’s decisions internationally. However, Scott still had confidence in the President domestically. He supported their re-election bid in Season 8. After Russia took control of Ukraine, China took control of Taiwan, and Israel was nearly lost, Scott became extremely disappointed with the administration.

After Terry was accused of violating the War Powers Resolution, Scott wrote legislation to investigate the Terry-Romney administration. The committee, headed up by Scott’s former running mate, Brett Cawthorn, and aided by Senators Jakob Goldwater, Michael Sturgis, and Robert Sanders, found that Terry did not inform Scott or then-House Speaker George Nixon of his decision to send troops to Ukraine. The Committee also found that Romney and then-Secretary of Defense Mike Walker had a strong disdain for Terry, and threatened him with the invocation of the 25th Amendment. Romney and Walker also conspired to take military action in Ukraine without Congress’s knowledge or approval. Romney and Walker also forged Terry’s signature on documents before getting his approval to sign said documents.

After the Select Committee’s report was released publicly, both Romney and Walker resigned and left the server. House Speaker George Nixon quickly drafted Articles of Impeachment, were approved by the House of Representatives by a sound margin. Scott oversaw the transfer of the Articles in a Senate session where the trial began. Both the defense, which Terry had none, and impeachment managers, none of which were members of the House, were disorganized. This led to a chaotic impeachment trial. Scott voted to acquit the President, later calling it one of the most difficult decisions in his career. He cited the impeachment managers’ failure to show how the President was involved in a conspiracy to keep Congress out of the loop. Upon his acquittal, Terry and his supporters began gloating publicly about his acquittal. Scott reportedly called Terry, warning him “Mr. President, you are on thin ice.”

After the trial, Scott and many Republican Senators received threats of violence, and in some cases, detailed death threats. On the Senate floor at a session, Scott read one that was sent to his home. With emotion in his voice, Scott read aloud, “I will f***ing kill you, your b***h wife, and your entire family. See you at (redacted) elementary school, maybe I’ll run into your daughter, you stupid son of a b***h. Rot in hell, motherf***er.” During this time, Scott and other Senators were briefly given Secret Service protection until the threats and violence stopped.

Scott’s public condemnation of the Terry administration’s actions internationally and his reading of one death threat on the Senate floor put him in the national spotlight again. Vice President Nate Romney was the expected frontrunner for the Republican nomination, but after committing several federal crimes and leaving the server, Romney was out of the running. Scott’s allies began a not-so-private whisper campaign floating a potential Scott candidacy. The GOP quickly rallied behind Scott, with Republican Chairman and close Scott confidant Senator Jakob Goldwater publicly calling on Scott to run for president.

Not long after the midterm elections, which surprisingly saw massive Republican gains nationwide despite near unanimous disapproval of Terry and his administration, Scott began telling close allies he would, in fact, seek the Republican nomination for President in Season 9. Scott, who expected that newly-appointed Vice President Rachel Harper would seek the nomination as well, had a meeting with Harper. But to Scott’s surprise, Harper agreed to serve as Scott’s running mate and pledged full support to him.

At this point, it was common knowledge that Scott would be running for president, so Scott announced his candidacy with Harper to serve as his running mate, in a campaign video highlighting his years of public service and bipartisanship. Scott quickly shot to nearly 90% of the vote in some polls posted by the admin team and earned countless endorsements. Right wing extremist Davy Long returned to primary Scott but was then dissuaded to run and supported Scott, who reluctantly accepted his endorsement. Long then jumped ship to support Robert Sanders, going for an unprecedented fourth campaign. Many of Scott’s supporters jumped ship without alerting Scott of their change in heart. Scott, in a soon refuted report, said to allies that those who had jumped ships were “just a bunch of disloyal, ungrateful f***ers. If you’re going to support me, support me. And if you change your mind, fine, but tell me. F***ing tell me.”

Polls quickly narrowed, with many polls showing Sanders leading. However, Scott continued campaigning until a close friend had attempted suicide. Scott, shocked and dismayed, announced he would take a leave of absence. Scott returned during the final week of campaigning after his friend, whom he had known since childhood, made a full physical recovery. Scott campaign in several swing states, while campaigning on behalf of the Sanders campaign came to a grinding halt. Polling the day before the election showed a narrow Scott lead, with a plurality, but not a majority, of electoral votes. In the end, Scott won a thumping majority, winning 412 electoral votes and 56.1% of the popular vote to Sanders’s 125 electoral votes and 35.4% of the popular vote. Scott won the popular vote by nearly 21 percentage points and holds the record for most popular votes cast for any presidential candidate in DES history.

Sanders, who many had speculated would not concede if he lost to Scott after he refused to concede to Terry after losing to him, gracefully and quietly conceded the race to Scott, who soon gave a victory speech calling for national unity as the country confronted crises both domestically and internationally.

Scott quickly began vetting cabinet nominations, appointing Tom Mulroney to be his Secretary of State, William Cohen to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, Trey Cranfield to be Attorney General, Amber Humphrey to be Secretary of Energy, Michael Sturgis to be Secretary of Education, Alexander Williams to be Secretary of Transportation, and Liam Wolf to be Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Scott also nominated Tom Jenkins to lead DHS and John Richards to lead the Pentagon, however the Senate rejected both of their nominations after poor performances at confirmation hearings. Most of the nominees were eventually confirmed after a long period of time. Scott was reportedly frustrated with the Senate, saying to friends and family “I get elected to the Senate, I stop the dysfunction. As soon as I leave it, they’re right back to stalling s**t. It’s ridiculous, I’m furious.” Scott’s frustration culminated in a public call via Twitter for Senators to “stop the stall.” Scott’s nominees, those who retained their nomination and did not withdraw it, were mostly confirmed.

Scott then sent Secretary of State Tom Mulroney to various countries to repair and rebuild alliances fractured or destroyed by the previous administration. Scott and Mulroney, along with Vice President Harper, made the decision to withdraw from the so-called Greece Accords, essentially appeasing China after taking Taiwan, negotiated in the Terry administration. Mulroney then negotiated with European leaders to place unilateral sanctions on China after claiming control of Kazahkstan. Meanwhile, Scott launched a “Road to Recovery” initiative, writing and supporting legislation to lower the unemployment rate, allow American jobs to flourish, reduce inflation, and restore American confidence and dominance on the world stage economically. Scott wrote, passed, and signed legislation to give grants to struggling small businesses. Scott then announced he would support the American Roads Act, introduced by Congressman Nick Jovonnie and Senator Jakob Goldwater. Scott also signed legislation gradually raising the minimum wage while putting in place ways for small businesses to make sure they aren’t lagging behind as a result of the minimum wage. In late December 2021, Scott and Harper were briefed by high ranking NASA officials on a large asteroid headed on a collision course towards the planet. Scott immediately went to work alerting Canada, France, and the United Kingdom of this information. Scott developed a plan with France and the United Kingdom, in conjunction with China and Russia, the other nuclear-equipped nations, to destroy the asteroid. Scott became the second president in US history to use nuclear weapons, after Harry S. Truman's use of nuclear weapons during the end of World War II. Scott's first attempted was not successful, but not long after, a second operation was executed and was successful. Scott garnered universal praise for his leadership, stopping the asteroid, and thereby saving humanity.

Scott continues to govern with high approval ratings among Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. He has expressed interest in running for a second term, saying publicly he intends to run for re-election as a National Union and then retire from politics.