BUMP
She just posted a piece in the Failing NY Times, with a detailed story regarding almost slitting her wrists over the entire situation:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/o...signation.html
Reading it, I actually started to feel bad for her, and considered that perhaps some of this was more justifiable than I thought. She claimed to have been trapped in a bad marriage, and continued with it because her husband threatened to ruin her political campaign, and then her political career. Maybe he was the one who pressured her into that thruple with the female staffer. Maybe her relationship with the male staffer was simply borne from the guy having a kind listening ear regarding her horrible husband and his threats.
However, when I got to the end, I realized something.
She never apologized once in the article to the young female staffer she hurt in more ways than one. (The staffer repeatedly complained in text messages about how abandoned she felt by Katie, and also later texted that Katie had been "abusive" to her.)
The article also never addressed any of the allegations. She did not admit any wrongdoing. She did not admit that she shouldn't have engaged in these relationships. She didn't take responsibility for obvious mistakes she made which were the main factor in ruining her career. She was on the front lines criticizing men for #MeToo violations -- how could she have thought it was okay to engage in sexual relationships with employees?
Regardless of the sympathy-soliciting article, the fact remains that she still sees little fault of her own in the entire situation, and blames her problems entirely on her abusive husband and the intrusive right wing media.
That article had zero introspection.