July 22, 2019

Livin’ Large: The Duncan Hunter Story

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/livin-large-the-duncan-hunter-story?fbclid=IwAR3jvcx9nOsOxrDbbQqybn8IwcAEj_JyBBp6ptyiWae7G7n2xAuUQRWRiN8
"Prosecutors list five extra-marital affairs Hunter carried on with various GOP lobbyists, operatives and congressional staffers (one of whom worked in his own office) and funded out of his campaign funds. The funding included everything from paying for weekend getaways, to ubering back and forth to different girlfriends’ homes for overnight and basically all the miscellaneous stuff one might do while carrying on an affair. Highlights include double dates with another member of Congress, the time Hunter kept an extra night of his wife’s hotel reservation in DC and used it to spend the night with his girlfriend. Prosecutors argue persuasively if rather archly that they must introduce evidence of Hunter’s affairs because otherwise Hunter might argue that the expenses were tied to his work in Congress. As they note, each girlfriend was tied either to Congress or political work in general. So tying the meetings to his campaign is not inherently implausible unless you know they were having sex."