Yep.  Which is why some people are really pissed about how they are portrayed.  On the the other hand, some famous people (or their relatives) make huge amounts of money from a biopic.  I know that Freddie Mercury’s ex-girlfriend and sister made a crapload of money from Bohemian Rhapsody.  I guess the filmmakers…

Okay, that clears up a lot. Thanks for taking the time to type it up for me.

IANAL, but if I’m recalling correctly the explanation I was once given about this: essentially you cannot own your own history if you are a public figure. You can profit from it (i.e. authorized biographies and the like) and you generally hold rights to your own actual likeness (so Hulu can’t use Tyson’s actual face,…

Maybe some of the missing-brain cells-people who are his base will get it, since their fat fearless leader did...that can only be a help to sane people I guess. A friend was ranting about the no-vaccine folks to me yesterday, the people she was talking to about it said they don’t trust the government...yet all of them…

Wait, people can just make and sell media about a specific person without compensating or even getting approval from that person? I’m gonna need someone smarter than me to explain how that works.

Every predator becomes the victim.

If I were casting a lifetime movie about date rape and he auditioned for the roll of the rapist he would be cast on looks alone. 

He sounds like a dude that grew up learning from the internet that to be a man you need to be an alpha and he learned 'how to be an alpha' from porn and bad movies

I think it’s what most of us are thinking. “Trust me, I’m harmless... “ 

This is also the guy who said, “Call your congressman and senator. It’s okay to lightly threaten them.”

Is he white? Yup. Are women saying he’s a hot cripple (check twitter)? Yes. Is he conservative?

His accident was in 2014, the article says this was from fall 2016. 

The “current Republican intern on Capitol Hill” quoted above refers to him parking outside her dorm in a spot reserved for people with disabilities. So I would assume this was after, unless he was being horrible about that as well.

That’s not exactly fair. He’d probably behave like a turd whether or not he felt life had taken a dump on him.

And some people, like Cawthorne, would be aholes no matter what their circumstance.

Isn’t this all from before his accident, anyway?

Guaranteed that all of this scumbags female staffers already have similar stories. 

“...all that happened before I found Jesus”

Some people respond to personal and physical set backs in a manner that are admirable. Some people are so shitty that they believe they have carte blanche to behave like turds because life took a dump on them.

Could easily be both. I mean, I'm sure this guy is a target for a lot of people, but at the same time, we've seen this over and over: when person after person comes forward to accuse someone of similarly predatory behavior, there's usually something to it.