Lindsey Graham: Impeachment about cleansing the office

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“You don’t even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job (as president) in this constitutional republic if this body determines your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role."

“Because impeachment is not about punishment,” he said. “Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.”

Thus spoke then Representative Lindsey Graham during the Bill Clinton witch hunt. The question becomes, does Graham stand by his own words, that impeachment can be done simply on the need to restore honor and integrity to the office?

Apparently not.

It’s “too early to tell” if the public was starting to turn against President Donald Trump in such a way as to make impeachment politically tenable,

In other words, instead of Congress making the decision to impeachment a corrupt, lying traitor based on everything he's done and said, it depends on which way the political winds are blowing.

The real question is, how far down the rabbit hole are Republicans going to go defending the con artist now that it's been shown he has committed criminal acts? If listening to Graham is any indication, anything short of throwing themselves on their swords is still in play.

https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article217126395.html

http://fortune.com/2018/08/22/lindsay-graham-clinton-trump-impeachment/

https://www.macon.com/news/politics-government/article217135620.html
 
Yeah, I didn't think that the mealy-mouthed Graham was taking that line now.
 
“You don’t even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job (as president) in this constitutional republic if this body determines your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role."

“Because impeachment is not about punishment,” he said. “Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.”

I read these earlier today. If they insist on propping the guy up and trying to say he's alright, that's their business. I'm not buying it. He's a joke, a traitor and a lot of other things. The office needs to be cleansed.
 
I read these earlier today. If they insist on propping the guy up and trying to say he's alright, that's their business. I'm not buying it. He's a joke, a traitor and a lot of other things. The office needs to be cleansed.

While I agree Trump has sullied the office, how is he a traitor?

I believe the Constitution only specifies impeachment fo “high crimes and misdemeanors”, an admittedly ambiguous term.
 
While I agree Trump has sullied the office, how is he a traitor?

I believe the Constitution only specifies impeachment fo “high crimes and misdemeanors”, an admittedly ambiguous term.

I believe he has conspired with the gravest threat to the United States, Russia. That makes him a traitor in my eyes.
 
While I agree Trump has sullied the office, how is he a traitor?

I believe the Constitution only specifies impeachment fo “high crimes and misdemeanors”, an admittedly ambiguous term.

He's been a blackmailed asset of the Russians for thirty years, and, upon becoming president he activated favoritism in action to Russia over many aspects of U.S. government and society. That makes him a traitor to the United States and you not so bright to not have seen the obvious. Trump doesn't make a secret of it.
 
What would Ike say?

Spineless Rethuglicans have sold out the country, check the Rubles in their pockets.;)
 
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