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What is The Reynolds Pamphlet?
That moment when you fuck up so bad that you're never gonna be president now...
Hamilton just had to go and write The Reynolds Pamphlet, didn't he?
The Reynolds Pamphlet - video
The Reynolds Pamphlet - what is it?
The pamphlet Alexander Hamilton wrote to defend himself at the beginning of a sex scandal. When Alexander Hamilton cheated on his wife, Eliza Schuyler, with Maria Reynolds. James, Maria's wife, blackmailed Alex, Alex paid Reynolds in checks, which James Munroe, Frederick Muhlenberg, and Abraham Venable found, in the musical, the letters were found by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and his murderer, Arron Burr.
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Alexander was confronted by his two enemies and his frenemy about these checks, he was accused of stealing money from the government. He disproved this "theory" with a letter and the power of words, they took an oath to never speak of it. In history, Munroe broke the oath by telling his best friend, Thomas Jefferson. It went into a small rumor, everyone started to hate Alex. To defend himself, he wrote the Reynolds Pamphlet, and the rumor turned into a sex scandal.
What does "The Reynolds Pamphlet" mean?
The pamphlet Alexander Hamilton wrote to defend himself at the beginning of a sex scandal. When Alexander Hamilton cheated on his wife, Eliza Schuyler, with Maria Reynolds. James, Maria's wife, blackmailed Alex, Alex paid Reynolds in checks, which James Munroe, Frederick Muhlenberg, and Abraham Venable found, in the musical, the letters were found by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and his murderer, Arron Burr.
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Alexander was confronted by his two enemies and his frenemy about these checks, he was accused of stealing money from the government. He disproved this "theory" with a letter and the power of words, they took an oath to never speak of it. In history, Munroe broke the oath by telling his best friend, Thomas Jefferson. It went into a small rumor, everyone started to hate Alex. To defend himself, he wrote the Reynolds Pamphlet, and the rumor turned into a sex scandal.