I love that this guy talks about his 30’s like most people talk about their late teens/early 20’s.
And his dance around framing this sounds like a lawyer advised him, “don’t say anything, but if you do, stay vague like this and deny deny deny”. Although, the “OK, sure I might have “dated” and bought gifts for girls that were underage, some maybe I never even interacted with other than them asking out of the blue for money/gifts” seems both sad/bad way to explain it away.
My 30’s were an era of working very hard – and playing hard too. It’s embarrassing, though not criminal, that I probably partied, womanized, drank and smoked more than I should have earlier in life. I live a different life now.”
Yeah, at 30, I already had a wife, kid, a regular career, and was pretty much set on maintaining a stable lifestyle for the rest of my life. He must have had the mentality of a five year old at 18.
He’s also 42. There’s a huge difference between someone looking back on their thirties with enough time and distance to realize that they weren’t as mature as they thought and someone defending themselves by saying that they used to be immature…three whole years ago!
Yep, he was in Congress for 14yrs, so starting at age 28. So these wild 30’s were all while he was an elected official and I’m sure funded 100% on the up and up with no abuse of his position. wink winknudge nudge
I love that this guy talks about his 30’s like most people talk about their late teens/early 20’s.
And his dance around framing this sounds like a lawyer advised him, “don’t say anything, but if you do, stay vague like this and deny deny deny”. Although, the “OK, sure I might have “dated” and bought gifts for girls that were underage, some maybe I never even interacted with other than them asking out of the blue for money/gifts” seems both sad/bad way to explain it away.
Yeah, at 30, I already had a wife, kid, a regular career, and was pretty much set on maintaining a stable lifestyle for the rest of my life. He must have had the mentality of a five year old at 18.
He’s also 42. There’s a huge difference between someone looking back on their thirties with enough time and distance to realize that they weren’t as mature as they thought and someone defending themselves by saying that they used to be immature…three whole years ago!
Yep, he was in Congress for 14yrs, so starting at age 28. So these wild 30’s were all while he was an elected official and I’m sure funded 100% on the up and up with no abuse of his position. wink wink nudge nudge