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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband was seriously injured by a deranged man in their San Francisco home in October 2022, an event that then became the subject of salacious rumors.

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He also hit on less salacious revelations like the connection between his stutter and his drinking.

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Unethical, salacious coverage further tilted the scales against them.

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Logan said in a statement that the county was being used as a pawn in both the civil lawsuit and federal corruption case and said the “voluminous records” the country released “refute the salacious allegations.”

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A literary biography needn’t be an artful accretion of facts, nor should it traffic in salacious gossip and cheapen the subject at hand.

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