Instead, he doubled down on his lies, and made things worse for himself. I don't know how anyone who has lived through the baseball PED scandal thinks doubling

Instead, he doubled down on his lies, and made things worse for himself. I don't know how anyone who has lived through the baseball PED scandal thinks doubling down helps. Bonds & Clemens fought tooth and nail against allegations. They'll never get into the hall of fame. Compare this to someone like David Ortiz, who got voted into Cooperstown this year. Ortiz didn't even really apologize. He just didn't double down. I feel like this happens with other celebrity scandals, too, where the people who don't publicly argue stuff like this seem to have their public image less tarnished, if at all.