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House rejects second attempt to impeach Trump as Democrats vote ‘present’
(www.independent.co.uk)
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But Clinton was impeached for a BJ, seriously?! America is so fucked!! Time to CLEAN HOUSE!!!
Clinton was impeached for perjury when he was testifying as defendant in a sexual harassment inquiry. We'd be in a better position now if he'd seen some consequences for that.
Quit trying to undermine what Bill Clinton did. Just because it was heavily politicized doesn't mean it wasn't also an egregious offense.
There's a reason pretty much every organization in the world has written rules regarding the relationships between its members, especially when there are power imbalances. I can't think of a bigger possible power imbalance than the US President and an intern.
And it goes the other way too. What if Lewinsky had been an intelligence asset for a foreign nation? Or even if she was just a lobbyist for some special interest group?
The US was lucky that Lewinsky was a victim of sexual harassment and not a fucking spy. She was demonized so heavily in the aftermath she literally moved out of the country.
It's not undermining what Clinton did, dork. It's highlighting how far our government has fallen that it won't hold Trump and his admin to any sort of responsibility for much more egregious acts against the country as a whole. It's all dog and pony show now.
Not even for the BJ, for lying about the BJ.
Lying under oath was by far the biggest issue on that.
impeachement was spearheaded none other than NEWT GINGRICH, who also is the brainchild to never work with the other side.