I think he has always been poor at his job and low on courage and self-confidence-if he wasn’t, he would not have folded to blackmail threats in the 1st place-he would have stood his ground. Clarence Thomas has been threatened and attacked since his confirmation hearings in 1991. If someone threatened him with blackmail over anything, I’m sure he’d tell them to fo...
I think it’s just as you put it this “..I think he has always been poor at his job and low on courage and self-confidence-..”. Extrapolating to blackmail as motivation isn’t warranted without more evidence.