Political Apologia
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| Accused | Accusation | Year of Apologia |
|---|---|---|
| Alan Grayson | Saying the Republicans' health care plan is for people "not to get sick" or if they do, "to die quickly" | 2009 |
| Anthony Weiner | Lewd Sexting Scandal | 2011 |
| Barack Obama | Comments about police after black scholar was treated as a robber | 2009 |
| Barney Frank | Prostitution ring run out of his apartment | 1989 |
| Bill Clinton | U.S. government not providing aid during Rwandan genocide | 1998 |
| Bill Clinton | Tuskegee syphilis study | 1997 |
| Bill Clinton | World War II internment camps | 1993 |
| Bill Clinton | Affair with Monica Lewinsky | 1998 |
| Bill Clinton | Not doing enough to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden | 2006 |
| Bob Packwood | Sexual harassment of various women | 1992 |
| Christopher Lee | Posting shirtless photos of himself on Craigslist | 2011 |
| Dan Quayle | Misspelling "potato" during visit to elementary school | 1995 |
| Dan Quayle | Saying the T.V. show Murphy Brown exhibited poor family values | 2001 |
| David Vitter | D.C. Madam scandal | 2007 |
| Dick Armey | Referring to Barney Frank as "Barney fag" | 1995 |
| Eliot Spitzer | Linked to prostitution ring | 2008 |
| Gary Condit | Suspected in the disappearance of a congressional intern | 2001 |
| Gary Hart | Affair with Donna Rice | 1987 |
| Gerald Ford | Debate gaffe in which he claimed there was no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe | 1989 |
| Harry Reid | Saying Obama was "light-skinned" and had "no negro dialect" | 2010 |
| Jack Abramoff | Mail fraud and tax evasion | 2006 |
| Jesse Jackson | Saying he wanted to "cut Obama's nuts off" | 2008 |
| Joe Biden | Saying Obama is the first mainstream African-American that is "articulate, bright, clean, and a nice looking guy" | 2007 |
| Joe Wilson | Yelling "you lie" during Obama speech | 2009 |
| John Edwards | Extra-marital affair while wife had cancer | 2008 |
| John Kerry | Telling students if they didn't work hard, they would get stuck in Iraq | 2006 |
| John McCain | Canceling appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman during his presidential campaign | 2008 |
| Larry Craig | Soliciting sex from police officer in an adjacent bathroom stall at the Minneapolis airport | 2007 |
| Marion Barry | Arrest for cocaine possession | 1990 |
| Mark Foley | Sexually explicit conversations with a young male congressional page | 2006 |
| Mark Sanford | Affair with Argentinian mistress | 2009 |
| Richard Nixon | Break-in at the Watergate hotel | 1974 |
| Richard Nixon | Secret slush fund | 1953 |
| Robert Hanssen | Spying for the Russians | 2002 |
| Robert S. Mueller | Abusing the Patriot Act to gather information on American citizens | 2007 |
| Rod Blagojevich | Attempting to sell Obama's vacant senate seat | 2009 |
| Ronald Reagan | Iran Contra scandal | 1987 |
| Ted Kennedy | Chappaquiddick incident | 1969 |
| Tom Coburn | Accusing NBC of promoting gratuitous sex and violence in airing Schindler's List | 1997 |
| Trent Lott | Segregation comment at Strom Thurmond's birthday celebration | 2002 |
| Ben Carson | Comments on Meet the Press About Not Supporting a Muslim for President | 2015 |
| Donald Trump | Videotape of him saying he can do whatever he wants to women | 2016 |
| Donald Trump | Describing debate moderator Megyn Kelly's aggressive style as "she had blood coming out of her wherever." | 2015 |
| Donald Trump | Saying POW John McCain isn't a war hero because he was captured | 2015 |
| Donald Trump | Arguing there were "many sides" in the tragedy of white nationalist who ran down a group of protestors | 2017 |
| Hillary Clinton | Wiping her personal email server clean that may have contained classified government documents | 2017 |
| Maria Chappelle-Nadal | Writing in a Facebook Post "I hope Trump is assassinated!" | 2017 |
| Tim Murphy | Encouraging mistress to have abortion in spite of his history of being pro-life. | 2017 |
| Tom Price | Costing the taxpayers $400,000 by taking private charter flights. | 2017 |
| Paul Gosar | Attacked by siblings for failing the people of Arizona as Congressman. | 2018 |
| Brett Kavanaugh | Groping one woman at a party and exposing himself to another. | 2018 |
| Ted Cruz | Flying to Cancun during winter power outage in Texas. | 2021 |
| Justin Trudeau | Showing up to a costume party in brownface | 2019 |
| Katie Hill | Inappropriate relationship with male and female congressional staffers | 2019 |
| Lamar Thorpe | Prejudice against Chinese living in Antioch, California | 2021 |
| Sarah Palin | Comments that some regions of America are more patriotic than others. | 2008 |
| Graham Platner | Offensive Reddit posts about women, people with disabilities and other minority groups. | 2025 |
| Graham Platner | Physically abuse behavior toward women and having a Nazi tattoo. | 2026 |
| Eleanor Ross | Having sex with uniformed police officer in the courthouse chambers. | 2026 |
| Joe Biden | U.S. government's federal indigenous boarding schools. | 2026 |
| Kaohly Her | Allegations of sexual harassment. | 2026 |
| Chuck Edwards | Fostered hostile work environment and engaged in sexual harassment. | 2026 |
| Andrew Cuomo | Sexual harassment of women in his office and in law enforcement. | 2021 |
| Edward Snowden | Blowing the whistle on the NSA's extensive surveillance program to gather information on U.S. citizens. | 2014 |
| Adolf Sauerland | Love Parade electronic music festival in Duisburg German ended in a deadly crowd disaster that killed twenty-one people and injured more than 500 more. | 2010 |
| Rob Ford | Admitted to smoking crack cocaine while mayor of Toronto. | 2013 |
| Donald Trump – E. Jean Carroll Rape Lawsuit | Rape of E. Jean Carroll | 2022 |
| Mike Waltz | Accidentally added Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, to a Signal group chat containing senior members of President Donald Trump's national security team. | 2025 |
| Brett Kavanaugh | Sexually assaulting Christine Blasey Ford when both were teenagers in the early 1980s. She alleged that Kavanaugh pushed her into a bedroom, pinned her on a bed, groped her, attempted to remove her clothing, and placed his hand over her mouth when she tried to call for help. | 2018 |
| Boris Johnson | "Partygate" scandal in which gatherings were held at 10 Downing Street and other government offices while COVID-19 restrictions limited social gatherings across England. | 2022 |
| Lauren Boebert | She and a male companion were removed from a performance of the musical Beetlejuice after patrons complained about them talking or singing loudly, vaping, and other disruptive behavior. | 2023 |
| Clarence Thomas | Accepting luxury travel and hospitality for more than two decades from a wealthy real-estate developer and prominent Republican donor, without reporting many of the trips on his annual financial-disclosure forms. | 2023 |
| Clarence Thomas | Accused of sexually harassing Anita Hill while she worked for him at the Department of Education and later at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. | 1991 |