Sounds to me like the affair is complicated enough to at least write an interesting song about it.
I suppose the next thing we'll hear from the reactionaries is how Billy Gashade should be excluded from the White House as well.
"This song, it was made, by Billy Gashade,
As soon as the news did arrive,
He said, there warn't a man,
With the Law in his hand,
That could take Jesse James when alive".
Except for Gashade being 134 years old as well as fictional, it could happen.