[plain talk]

Don’t blame them for getting the heck out. They are kids.
Maybe they don’t want to spend the last few weeks of summer mired in the fake political grief over the death of an employee. Maybe they even liked the guy but now phony politics enters into it.

[MinorityRepublican]

Don’t blame them for getting the heck out. They are kids.

It's not their fault. The Chef was a dumb@$$ who got himself killed. That's basically it.