Speaking of sex scandals and assault/harassment accusations

Former congressman and current Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz said Tuesday that he feared some people “will want to take advantage” of the recent wave of reporting on workplace sexual harassment “and throw an allegation.”

  TPM

Anyone in particular Chaffetz is trying to pre-protect? Himself?

On Fox News’ “Outnumbered Overtime,” host Melissa Francis asked Chaffetz if the stories about harassment felt “like a witch hunt.”

Easy to assume who Melissa is trying to protect: Trump and the whole Fox News network.

“I mean, a lot of men out there are worried that, even if they didn’t do anything, that women are going to come after them,” she said.

A lot of men? Really? Why would they be worried if they didn't do "anything"?

Chaffetz announced in May that he would retire from Congress by the end of the following month, a full year and a half before his fifth term would have finished.

“I just turned 50,” he said by way of explanation at the time. “I’m sleeping on a cot in my office.”

Begging the question: why?

Chairmen of House committees don't just leave for no reason. So why is Chaffetz doing so?

The most likely answer, theorize Republican strategists watching this play out, is that Chaffetz is just bored with his job.

Sorry. I'm not buying that one. I'd be more likely to buy the idea that he didn't want to do any actual oversight of the Trump administration. And that he wanted a job at Fox for more public exposure and fame (and perhaps better money). But, I wouldn't be surprised to learn he's got something he needs to keep hidden. Sex scandal? Trump dirt involvement? I don't know. But it's hard to believe he just up and decided to walk out of Congress.

It's possible that he got bored in his job and saw an opportunity elsewhere.

He certainly hinted at that in his Facebook retirement announcement: “After more than 1,500 nights away from my home, it is time. I may run again for public office, but not in 2018.”

Maybe after people have forgotten this:

“Americans have choices, and they've got to make a choice. And so maybe rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and they want to go spend hundreds of dollars on that, maybe they should invest in their own health care.”

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.