Clinton has a varied take on impeachment

President Trump should hire Hillary Clinton as an impeachment consultant.

After all, who knows more about impeachment than the wife of a president who was impeached?

Not only that, Hillary Clinton served as a committee staffer on the House committee that sought to impeach Republican President Richard Nixon over the Watergate scandal. Nixon resigned in 1974 and was not impeached.

That impeached president, her husband, was Democrat Bill Clinton. Although he was impeached by a Republican-controlled U.S. House in 1998 for obstruction of justice and lying to a grand jury, he was later acquitted by a Democrat-dominated U.S. Senate.

Now, if Democrats can find something, anything, close to a high crime or misdemeanor — or if they make something up — the Nancy Pelosi Democratic House will impeach Trump.

But then the Republican-controlled Senate will acquit him.

Donald Trump’s situation is a lot like that of quarterback Tom Brady. In order to beat the New England Patriots, opponents must hurt or take out Brady. For Democrats to beat Trump for re-election they must first hurt or take Trump out. Hence impeachment.

Unlike Bill Clinton, the Democrats hounding Trump do not have much to go on. Trump, unlike Clinton, did not have sex in the Oval Office with, a 21-year old White House intern, and then lie under oath about it.

It was during that period that Hillary Clinton, who stood by her man, charged that there was “a right- wing conspiracy” out to get her husband.

It was an alleged conspiracy that, according to Hillary, designed to ruin Bill Clinton during his second term, although Bill Clinton did much to ruin himself. Now Hillary Clinton, who still has not recovered from her humiliating 2016 loss to Trump, an “illegitimate” president, wants the man who beat her impeached over his telephone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. You know what they say about a woman scorned.

“The president of the United States has betrayed our country,” Hillary said. “That’s not a political statement — it’s a harsh reality, and we must act. He is a clear and present danger to the things that keep us strong and free. I support impeachment.”

It is too bad that Hillary has gone so far out on a limb. Had she been silent she could have returned to the White House as a Trump impeachment consultant. Then she could have said that the move to impeach Trump was “a vast left-wing conspiracy.”

If she really wants Trump out of office, she should run for the Democratic nomination for president herself. In this field of second-rate, free-stuff Socialists, she could win.

Deep state Democrats along with their accomplices in the deep state media first sought to nullify the 2016 election and Trump’s victory. Still harassing him after almost three years in office, they want to nullify Trump in 2020.

But Hillary Clinton was against impeachment before she was for it.

Two months ago, Politico ran a story about Hillary being opposed to impeachment, just as talk of impeaching Trump among Democrats was suddenly revived following the Robert Mueller report.

The former U.S. senator, secretary of state and presidential candidate, in a little-noticed July interview on a project tied to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, warned about impeachment.

While’ Trump’s name did not come up in the interview, talk of his impeachment was in the air.

“I think it’s such a serious undertaking,” Clinton said of impeachment.

“Do not pursue it for trivial partisan political purposes. If it does fall to you while you’re in the House to examine abuses of power by the president, be as careful as John Doar was,” Clinton said. Doar was the lead Nixon House impeachment staffer back then.

In advice House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff might — but won’t — take, Clinton, a master of grandstanding, added, “Restrain yourself from grandstanding and holding news conferences and playing to your base.”

“This goes way beyond whose side you’re on or who’s on your side. And try to be faithful purveyors of the history and solemnity of the process.”

That history was lost when it came to the impeachment of her husband, Clinton said, because he was impeached for “political, partisan purposes.”

The right way to impeach a president, she said, was the way Richard Nixon, a Republican, who wasn’t impeached, and not Bill Clinton, a Democrat, was.

Hillary knows impeachment. Clinton good, Trump bad. Get it?

 

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