Aaron Schock’s Dad: ‘Two Years from Now, He’ll be Successful, if He’s Not in Jail’
Rep. Aaron Schock, who resigned from Congress yesterday over allegations that he’d improperly spent taxpayer money, has at least one person in that corner. Sadly, it’s not Taylor Swift. But it is his dad!
And apparently, his dad is firmly in his son’s corner. Ish.
“Two years from now he’ll be successful, if he’s not in jail,” Dr. Richard Schock told a reporter from Chicago’s ABC7 outside his home in Peoria, Ill. “If they’re going to convict him on paperwork, then they’re going to convict him. That’s their privilege. They’re out to get him and they’re making issues out of things that really shouldn’t be issues.”
Schock’s departure means that a congressional inquiry into his well-documented spending habits will be dropped, though a criminal investigation is still possible. Dr. Schock said that his son didn’t “want to bring [supporters] into courts & have them be subpoenaed & everything” — hence his resignation.
As for the current state of Schock, his dad said that his son was “broken” but a “fighter.”
“In his heart he’s always wanted to do what was right and what was good and he got a little careless,” he told media.
"Everyone is throwing up their arms b/c they can't figure out Aaron so [they think] he must be crooked" -Dad on son pic.twitter.com/npOGqYyH0k
— Ben Bradley (@BenBradleyABC7) March 18, 2015
Richard Schock on his son Aaron: "He's had a good run. He's done a lot of good. He's helped a lot of people." pic.twitter.com/OEMwjX1f1e
— Ben Bradley (@BenBradleyABC7) March 18, 2015
UPDATE (1:14 p.m.) Here is a video of Aaron Schock’s dad talking to the press, via ABC7 Chicago.
[ABC7]
[Image via Ben Bradley]
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