A Tennessee Congressman warns that fellow Republicans in the House of Representatives have been lured into honeytraps with sex workers and drugs changing the way they vote, he said this week.
“If it’s women, drugs, booze, it will find you in D.C. and in most elected offices,” Rep. Tim Burchett told podcaster Benny Johnson. “That’s what people, power and influence do.”
As Burchett tells it, Republicans aren’t backing important efforts, such as Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s crusade for Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs, because they’re being bullied by big backers and Russians.
There seems to be a specific type of person who seeks office. And it’s often the type of person who shouldn’t be trusted with that responsibility in the first place. There are exceptions of course but the majority of people who run for office shouldn’t run a lemonade stand let alone represent a portion of the population.