Gaetz’s tweet was a good reminder that many of the president’s most loyal supporters don’t hold President Trump to the same moral standards that they hold others.

Trump’s alleged marital infidelity has been the subject of several high-profile stories. He allegedly courted his second wife, Marla Maples, while married to his first wife, Ivana.

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Stormy Daniels, an adult-film star, has alleged that she and Trump had an affair in 2006, soon after his wife Melania gave birth. Daniels has also accused the president’s team of paying her to keep quiet. Karen McDougal, a Playboy model, has accused Trump of infidelity, saying that he cheated on his wife with her. She also says she was paid by the National Enquirer for the rights to her story, which it never published. Investigators say the publication’s parent company was colluding with Trump to bury unfavorable coverage.

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Cohen discussed some of these stories on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, suggesting that Trump may have broken the law to conceal his infidelities during the campaign.

But Republicans on Capitol Hill seemed less interested in Cohen’s testimony than in trying to paint him as a liar. Several lawmakers raised his past misstatements during their questioning. That the president has made more than 8,100 false or misleading claims in his first two years in the White House, according to The Washington Post’s Fact Checker, didn’t come up.

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As my colleague put it: “The exchange was interesting in and of itself, but it also betrayed an uneasy reality of this hearing for Republicans: Many of the things they attacked Cohen on could carry collateral damage for the very man they were defending: President Trump.”