Actually Clinton was acquitted like Trump was in the impeachment trial. We didn’t celebrate it and pretend he didn’t lie under oath over what you would call a process crime. He apologized while Trump rages and plots more revenge and more investigations on his political foes. Total morally bankrupt and your party fuels it to hold onto power.
That is
such a lie and deliberate deception. Clinton was found by the special investigation
to be guilty of crimes, including perjury and obstruction of justice. While a bipartisan House found Clinton guilty, the Senate vote to acquit him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_ClintonThe impeachment of Bill Clinton was initiated on October 8, 1998, when the United States House of Representatives voted to commence impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, for "high crimes and misdemeanors". The specific charges against Clinton were lying under oath and obstruction of justice. The charges stemmed from a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Clinton by Paula Jones and from Clinton's testimony denying that he had engaged in a sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The catalyst for the president's impeachment was the Starr Report, a September 1998 report prepared by Independent Counsel Ken Starr for the House Judiciary Committee.[1]
On December 19, 1998, Clinton became the second American president to be impeached (the first being Andrew Johnson, who was impeached in 1868), when the House formally adopted two articles of impeachment and forwarded them to the United States Senate for adjudication; two other articles were considered, but were rejected.[a] A trial in the Senate began in January 1999, with Chief Justice William Rehnquist presiding. On February 12, Clinton was acquitted on both counts as neither received the necessary two-thirds majority vote of the senators present for conviction and removal from office—in this instance 67. On Article One, 45 senators voted to convict while 55 voted for acquittal. On Article Two, 50 senators voted to convict while 50 voted for acquittal.[3] Clinton remained in office for the remainder of his second term.[4]
In the case of Clinton, there were
crimes the Special Counsel found evidence Clinton was guilty of. What allowed Clinton to be spared by the Senate is that they deemed them not to be crimes that rose to the level of removing Clinton from office.
In the case of Trump, there were
NOT crimes found by the special counsel.
NONE.And therefore it should never have gone on to a House impeachment or a Senate trial. Except as a political weapon to smear and damage Trump going into the 2018 and 2020 elections.
Lamar Jackson while voting to block evidence with most of the republican majority explained his vote to acquit this way... “There is no need for more evidence to prove that the president asked Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter; he said this on television on October 3, 2019, and during his July 25, 2019, telephone call with the president of Ukraine,” Alexander said in a statement. “There is no need for more evidence to conclude that the president withheld United States aid, at least in part, to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens; the House managers have proved this with what they call a ‘mountain of overwhelming evidence.'”
Other republicans also went that route noting Trump’s wrongdoing. They however voted to block witnesses and documents unlike Romney.
That Trump asked Zelensky to aid a corruption investigation that included involvement of the Bidens is not in question. That much is a fact and clearly documented. But the U.S. and Ukraine have laws to share information and records to jointly fight corruption.
Which Trump can be argued to have lawfully been doing, in execution of the law Trump took an oath to do. The only sticking point that gives Democrats the slightest allegation of wrong is Trump mentioned the Bidens in the July 25th call. But Trump was breaking no law. Trump's job is to investigate corruption. The Bidens WERE CLEARLY PART of that corruption.
Democrats can half-bakedly allege a conflict of interest because Joe Biden is running for president. But Trump had legitimate and lawful reasons for investigating the Bidens as part of his job as president, to enforce the law and weed out corruption in Ukraine. Harvarl Law school and famous attorney Alan Dershowitz has made that argument repeatedly.
And as evidenced in the Iowa and New Hampshire polls, Trump needs no unfair advantage to remove Biden as an opponent. Biden was and is imploding quite spectacularly on his own, and has been since before this Ukraine/impeachment thing began in September 2019.
