The whole point that image macro is that rich, powerful politicians can get away with things like spending state money to fly down to Argentina and Falkland their mistress or tweet pictures of their engorged Chonson (and in both cases lie about it) only to have those past transgressions ignored after they attain/seek office again. Conversely a black dude missing a few teeth who saved a group of women who had been enslaved, raped and tortured for six years gets his name dragged through the mud because he has a past criminal record. If anything, it's an indictment of the US media and a culture of selective scandal in general.