A Trump-appointed federal judge was forced to resign this month after just four years on the bench and a blistering ethics complaint detailed his hostile work environment and sexual misconduct with a law clerk and federal prosecutor.Judge Joshua Kindred, of the U.S. District Court for the District o...
They always denied it was about the sex though. Even at the time. We all knew it was, but they constantly were claiming it was about lying on the stand.
And then Larry Flynt inadvertently helped them on that front when trying to shame them by putting out a report detailing all the Republican congresspeople who had affairs. I appreciate what he tried to do, but that made it even easier for them to say it wasn’t about the sex since no one got rid of them for an affair.
It was about the letter after his name. If sex was illegal (and I think sex with subordinates often should be), they would have gone for that. Lying under oath is illegal, so they went for that. This wasn’t some principled mission, this was to stop the guy they disagreed with using whatever would stick.