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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.
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
“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