>>33842
I thought so.
It's KC main where I'm familiar from with that word, and even there I don't think was used much, or used nowadays on Kohl.
>except when person becomes target for political or financial reasons
Yeah, very useful to gather information that can be used as blackmail or torpedo in the perfect time... An interesting duality one should have who wants to be a public figure: on one hand he should be clean white as snow, so he himself cannot be used against himself by his rivals (from outside and inside), but also have to be ruthless to run over others. But now I'm getting sidetracked.

So Politico just casually lies. Who would have thought.