>>As for his "I doubt anybody was interested", how do you know that??? I know many Democrats who, to this day, are angry with him for his repeated lying and doubling-down that led to a totally unnecessary chain of events.
I don't "know" it which is why I didn't issue a declaration as you do.
Why do I doubt anybody was interested in the sordid stuff? Because the halls emptied apart from a few die hards who refused to attend and everybody piled into a too-small hall in the massive venue in New Orleans. You don't do that for a dirty sordid man.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1