Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton used multiple cellphones and an alias on a ride-sharing app to conceal an affair, and pressured top aides to help a donor now facing criminal charges, according to new documents made public by investigators leading the impeachment of the embattled Republican.
I feel like the article title here buried the lede. If we impeached everyone who had an affair, we wouldn’t have any politicians left. (Which isn’t entirely unappealing, mind you, but that’s beside the point.) Once I got to the parts of the article about him committing securities fraud and unlawfully using the power of his office to shield his cronies from legal trouble, I thought “why didn’t you lead with that?”
Yeah it’s not illegal to have an affair and use multiple phones, even an alias. It could be illegal to do those things to commit fraud. It’s not just the lede, it’s the reason we care at all.