In 2016, allegations of abusing minors was enough to derail a GOP politician's career. It was called "disgraceful" and a "scandal" back then. How quaint.
I suppose the fact that he was molesting boys instead of girls may have had something to do with it too.
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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.