There has been no shortage of pritzus scandals of one sort or another involving politicians of both parties. Wikipedia has an article of Federal scandals going back to Alexander Hamilton. The media love them because they sell. It’s not just the U.S. The Profumo scandal in the UK and the Berlusconi scandal in Italy made headlines worldwide.
The Ellison allegations have been covered in detail in the Washington Post and other mainstream media outlets, as have other scandals involving Democrats (Elliott Spitzer and Eric Schneiderman come to mind).
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