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They didn’t have to be true. The implication was that they could make the public believe such things were true, which at the time would have ended him.
Obviously in a reasonable world no one should give the slightest fuck about someone else’s orgies, but unfortunately a lot of people have puritan brainrot, which was much, much more widespread at the time.