Political Apologia
Accused | Accusation | Year of Apologia |
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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 |