• zigmus64@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Well, to be fair, he was impeached for lying under oath and obstruction of justice…

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          2 months ago

          Controversy over real estate was involved somewhere in the Clinton administration (the Whitewater scandal iirc), but I believe the articles of impeachment were issued over perjury committed while making statements under oath about his relationship with Lewinsky during some sexual harassment lawsuit/investigation.

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            So the articles of impeachment were drawn up after Clinton lied during a deposition during pretrial discovery for a sexual harassment case brought upon Clinton by Paula Jones.

            The reason why Lewinsky was even brought up was because she was mentioned in the Starr report which was a report prepared for the house judiciary committee by independent counsel Ken Starr.

            Ken Starr was appointed by Janet Reno, I think, originally to investigate the Clinton’s dealings with the Whitewater Land Company.

            So if you connect all the red string the investigation was a real estate one that led to him lying about a blowjob.

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              It was a political witch hunt. Iirc there wasn’t anything wrong with the whitewater deal but they went ahead and paid the few thousand in taxes anyway

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            2 months ago

            Right, right. Why did reading that fill me with despair? Like, I just want some measure of justice served against the orange fascist.

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              I’m not sure… he was acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial, which is what happened to Trump (both times), and then the whole thing just faded into obscurity…