Or, you know, you could be a stand up person and be genuinely contrite.

He's a big time CEO and his company is impacted by how well he handles it. So of course there are PR/crisis people around. They specialize in making psychopaths look human.

But leaders are where they are because they make good decisions - their character does matter. Calling in the image-fixer types to clean up your mistakes is easy mode.

Being seduced by a foreign agent was neither a good decision, nor evidence of good character, nor proof of situational awareness.

Can we assume this was a one-off because she was uniquely persistent and persuasive?