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I agree that it's easy to say this here, but I still fail to see what example a VC would want to set by doing what Draper has done here. Is this supposed to sho

• tomhoward 5y ago
  As per the links in my most recent comment [1], he hasn't defended or denied any crimes of which she's been found guilty (she's yet to be found guilty of anything), and days after she was indicted in June 2018 said simply that she's "innocent until proven guilty". He's said basically nothing about her since. I can't find anything at all he's said publicly about her since March 2019, in which he notably reduced the level of support he was willing to express, and also notably said the barest minimum thing he could say in her support, before moving on as quickly as possible. You know there are people in the world who think things like: I was the first person to show her support when nobody else did, and so now I'm going to be the last person to keep supporting her when nobody else will. It won't cost me anything to show that I still care about her even if she's done wrong. If I don't, who else will? Some people sleep better at night doing that, rather than joining the mob taking delight in laying the boots in. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28958722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28958722