Somehow, I'm picturing this conversation in the locker room 'at the club':
Friend: "So, how are you doing these days, Mike?"
Bryant: "Ah...okay, I guess."
F: "Look, Mike, that guy was a drunken loser; you need to put it behind you, he got what he had coming to him."
Sooner or later, he will hear that often enough to actually believe it. Besides, being an attorney and politician, his conscience is lot more likely to be for sale, anyway....
Who...me...? Cynical? NAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWW!