scoundrel

Trump regularly railed against the special counsel in interviews and online, calling him a "crooked person", a "scoundrel" and other insults.

The cynical and wrong response to this deluge of stuff-we-made-up is to claim that such dishonesty is the norm, the world of politics being the refuge of scoundrels.

“One of the peculiarities of squares is their screwy propensity to glorify rogues and scoundrels.”

Bush, and scoundrels, like Roger Clinton, the stepfather of Bill Clinton, who drank excessively and beat his wife, Virginia, regularly.

"The 'someone planted the evidence' defense," he wrote, "is the last refuge of a scoundrel."