The claim itself matters less than the mechanism it activates, because allegations about corruption trigger outrage, and outrage travels faster than verification, faster than nuance, and faster than institutional processes designed to separate truth from political theater.
Kennedy’s statement was carefully constructed to feel procedural, legal, and restrained, even as its implications were explosive, because it suggested not merely wrongdoing, but betrayal of public trust by one of the most symbolically significarit political figures of the modern era.
