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by intrikate 36 days ago
"...Flowers said, "I believe personally that guilty people act defensively. If you don't have anything to hide, then it shouldn't be a problem."

Oh boy, back to this crap again. If that's true, for you to be acting this defensively sure is sending some signal.

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Baked into that is a presumption of justice, which is becoming comically out of touch to the point where that overused phrase could be a meme.
Someone should go point a webcam at his house. I'm sure he wouldn't have a problem with it.
"I don't need privacy because my actions are questionable, I need privacy because your judgement and intentions are."
Narcissist's first strike: insist that the people preventing them from getting what they want are the problem, and setting the frame. All you can do is refuse to engage them in the frame, and deny them the luxury of shaping the engagement, which tends to fluster them even more.

Hopefully whoever elected this person will have second thoughts and boot them. It's quite clear they are more interested in aggregating power and creating edifi through which to abuse the public than representing them in good faith.

Check his business connections