Lindsey Graham’s Old Comments About Impeachment Come Back To Haunt Him

[McRocket]

'The South Carolina senator had a seemingly different view in 1999.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) once believed that it didn’t take a conviction or even a crime for impeachment.

He made the case not today, with President Donald Trump in office, but in 1999 when President Bill Clinton was impeached and Graham was a member of the House of Representatives.

“You don’t have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this Constitutional Republic,” Graham said in a 1999 clip posted on Twitter by MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.

He said a president could get the boot if Congress decides “your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds”:

“Impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.”

Graham was one of the House prosecutors during the Clinton impeachment proceedings.

“You couldn’t live with yourself knowing that you were going to leave a perjuring judge on the bench,” he said in 1999. “Ladies and gentlemen, as hard as it may be for the same reasons, cleanse this office.”'

Lindsey Graham’s Old Comments About Impeachment Come Back To Haunt Him

Video of this in the link.


I wonder if Graham feels the same way now?

 

[koshergrl]

Who cares?

 

[McRocket]

Who cares?

LOL...you do.

It is impossible to read a post (even just the headline) that you care nothing about. Impossible.

Man...you Trumpbots can be ignorant. Only an ignoramus would deliberately go into a thread and then comment 'who cares?'.

 

[frigidweirdo]

'The South Carolina senator had a seemingly different view in 1999.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) once believed that it didn’t take a conviction or even a crime for impeachment.

He made the case not today, with President Donald Trump in office, but in 1999 when President Bill Clinton was impeached and Graham was a member of the House of Representatives.

“You don’t have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this Constitutional Republic,” Graham said in a 1999 clip posted on Twitter by MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.

He said a president could get the boot if Congress decides “your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds”:

“Impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.”

Graham was one of the House prosecutors during the Clinton impeachment proceedings.

“You couldn’t live with yourself knowing that you were going to leave a perjuring judge on the bench,” he said in 1999. “Ladies and gentlemen, as hard as it may be for the same reasons, cleanse this office.”'

Lindsey Graham’s Old Comments About Impeachment Come Back To Haunt Him

Video of this in the link.


I wonder if Graham feels the same way now?

It's amazing how someone's attitude can change 180 degrees when the situation changes 180 degrees.

These people have no principles whatsoever.

 

[Erinwltr]

Who cares?

You cared enough to comment about not caring. Interesting. Well at any rate, I read the OP and I do care.

 

[FA_Q2]

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Of course you don't have to be convicted of anything - that is what the senate does during an impeachment proceeding - they determine if the president committed a crime and if that raised to the level of requiring to be replaced.

The actual legal conviction comes afterward if there is not another sweetheart deal with the VP to pardon.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Who cares?

You and other rightist hypocrites should.