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Sex abuse on high school male wrestlers while he was the coach. The GOP promoted him and never questioned how the speaker of the house was a Child Predator? What is it about high school wrestling coaches turning out to be disgusting people?

Wrestling is a very contact heavy sport. Boys in extremely tight fitting clothing and the positions are like borderline sexual like a regular starting position is 1 guy on all 4s and the other kneeling behind him and it inescapably looks sexual. Lot of wiggle room for groping and so on.

Predators gravitate to jobs that put them in contact with the focus of their perversions. Sexual predation of children is much more prevalent than people want to believe.

"upended his legacy" Bro. They're all paedophiles. A legacy as a republican legislator is a legacy as a supporter of paedophiles. They all attack sex ed, promote abusive churches, attack lgbtiq education, believe in "parents rights", every single one of these things is Paedophile Policy. legacy smh

It didn't upend his legacy, it IS his legacy. He shouldn't be allowed a before and after impression of his merits especially since before was "before people knew about it."

His "admission?" Really? Not the abuse itself? Seriously, what do you think would happen if the headline read, "...disgraced Republican speaker of the US House who sexually abused children has died." Would you lose clicks? Subscriptions? Get sued? Would it violate WaPo journalistic ethics?