No, they tried to impeach him. They were just looking for any angle to do it with. They assigned an open ended special prosecution to find something, anything they could use and Clinton decided to perjure himself on it. It wasn’t noble
Listen, I’m not saying Clinton wasn’t rad as a president – he was – but I’d also say him cheating on his wife wasn’t very “noble”, either. Nor was lying about it on TV to the entire country after getting caught.
Yeah, I know, it’s Hillary, but still not a cool thing to do.
From that perspective i found it insane that she stayed with him and then tried to become president herself. Gal, you sucked it up to your cheating husband, because of your power greed. This is a red flag larger than at the Sowjet parades.
During the deposition, Clinton was asked “Have you ever had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky, as that term is defined in Deposition Exhibit 1?” The judge ordered that Clinton be given an opportunity to review the agreed definition. Afterwards, based on the definition created by the Independent Counsel’s Office, Clinton answered, “I have never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky.” Clinton later said, “I thought the definition included any activity by [me], where [I] was the actor and came in contact with those parts of the bodies” which had been explicitly listed (and “with an intent to gratify or arouse the sexual desire of any person”). In other words, Clinton denied that he had ever contacted Lewinsky’s “genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks”, and effectively claimed that the agreed-upon definition of “sexual relations” included giving oral sex but excluded receiving oral sex
Remember the outrage! A president who didn’t tell the truth about his sex life right away was unthinkable!
More than that, we tried to impeach him for it! Imagine that, our politicians being held accountable for their dishonesty.
No, they tried to impeach him. They were just looking for any angle to do it with. They assigned an open ended special prosecution to find something, anything they could use and Clinton decided to perjure himself on it. It wasn’t noble
Listen, I’m not saying Clinton wasn’t rad as a president – he was – but I’d also say him cheating on his wife wasn’t very “noble”, either. Nor was lying about it on TV to the entire country after getting caught.
Yeah, I know, it’s Hillary, but still not a cool thing to do.
From that perspective i found it insane that she stayed with him and then tried to become president herself. Gal, you sucked it up to your cheating husband, because of your power greed. This is a red flag larger than at the Sowjet parades.
I think the abuse of power dynamic was the worst part.
To be clear, for anyone too young to remember, he WAS impeached for 2 reasons: lying under oath and obstruction of justice.
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton#:~:text=The House adopted two articles,rejected by the House vote.
It’s pretty funny
This is the most lawyer thing I’ve read. Hahaha. I totally forgot about that.