There’s good news for Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, even this week, as the Office of the Inspector General investigation into an alleged inappropriate relationship with an underling revealed that her husband, Shawn DeRemer, has been banned from the Labor Department building after multiple sexual harassment allegations.

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No, Chavez-DeRemer has to take the back seat to Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), whose supposed mistress — his former staffer Regina Santos-Aviles — died by self-immolation last September.

Santos-Aviles’s widower, Adrian Aviles, has since released text messages in which Gonzales, married with six children, repeatedly solicited explicit photos from Santos-Aviles, explaining, “I’m just such a visual person.” Adrian says the affair and the subsequent ostracism Santos-Aviles suffered from her colleagues drove her to suicide. Gonzales has denied the affair.

Welcome to President Donald Trump’s party and the sexually liberated GOP.

To be sure, the various accusations of sexual impropriety haven’t been proven. Also, this isn’t brand new: Politicians and Cabinet secretaries of both parties have had sex scandals since Alexander Hamilton. But it’s different in the Trump era.

From the thrice-married president on down, this administration........

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