Originally Posted by bklsmum:
When was our government ever a volunteer position that was unpaid?
ETA: And not for nothing but Hillary just turned 69 last week so she's not a 70 something anything and the something else that Trump is, is a sexual predator.
Maybe not unpaid per se, but being in Congress wasn't a primary job. Congressmen had their primary jobs (mostly farmers), and then also worked in Congress. It was considered a hardship to be in Congress. The pay wasn't great, and certainly nothing they could live on.
I don't condone anything Trump has done. Still, he comes from a different era and I can at least understand him. My mother worked in Chicago during the male chauvinist heyday and it wasn't unusual for a man to grab her behind, make a pass at her, grab her boob, whatever. Happened all the time. She's Trump's age. She defends Trump and says he is just "of that era". Eh, I don't know.
The Clintons are kind of like the Kennedys. Things happen and no one ever gets busted.