RORY SALAZAR | Finance | Contact
Christian Porter has been dragged through the mud over recent years, and the man himself is naturally upset about what that dragging has done to the way the public view him.
When that dossier of rape allegations came out against him when he was the country’s attorney general, public opinion began to sour. And despite him denying any wrong doing, the poor bloke’s public persona still took a hit over all the kerfuffle.
To add insult to injury, earlier this year the poor bloke had to appear in front of a royal commission into the robo-debt scheme, to once again deny any wrong doing of any kind even though he was social services minister when the scheme was in operation.
While Porter clearly expressed strong feelings about how he never did anything wrong, for some reason his public image only seemed to deteriorate further.
It’s as if the public now associates his name and his face to robo-debt wrong-doing and rape allegations.
Until now that is.
Yes, the living legend is coming out of his victimhood to take back control of his narrative. The brilliant legal mind has accepted a job working for Australia’s favourite mining billionaire, Clive Palmer, to help the big man sue Australia for $300 billion.
“I’m not doing this for Clive or the Country, I’m doing this to repair my public image,” Porter told the Advocate this morning via wireless telephone.
“If Aussies can’t see how great a guy I am even as I help out one of their favourite sons in Clive Palmer sue the country for all the submarines they could never afford, then that’s on them.”
“To my knowledge, I do not recall ever knowing someone who deserves a positive public image more than I. In fact, to this day I reject the premise of having a poor public image,” Porter waffled on for no reason other than that’s what he was trained to do as a career politician.
It remains unclear if Porter can stop the negative death spiral his public image appears to be suffering of late. However, the man himself thinks that if he succeeds in helping big Clive send the entire country broke, then Aussies will finally start to think of him in the positive light he knows he deserves.
More to come.
