He should’ve been retired after his first term in the Senate... in 1992.
Wrong, he should have gone to jail over the Keating 5 scandal. But some just couldn’t bring themselves to throw an ex-hero in the pokie. Now that he was compromised, all his benefactors needed to do was to pull that Keating string whenever they needed him to dance to their tune.
I took copious amounts of flames before for this and I’m sure I’ll take them again.
Benedict Arnold was once a decorated war hero as well. Once a hero, not always a hero.