The reason that he receives little credit is because he was too busy raping women and having ejaculations in the Oval Office to be taken seriously. Permorning a sex act with or having a sex performed on oneself while conducting official business over a phone won’t garner much credit for oneself. “The most powerful man in the world” forcing himself on an intern also does net engender respect. In short he was and remains a loser.
Not a loser in the eyes of tens of millions of uninformed American citizens, however