Cortez is dropping hot fire on twitter today when she called out Republican using their own word during the impeachment of Bill Clinton and how they view the action of the current President.
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) blasted Sen. Lindsey Graham (D-S.C.) on Twitter on Friday for seemingly reversing his stance on the standards necessary to impeach a president.
Ocasio-Cortez tweeted a Daily Beast story quoting Graham saying that he is fine with President Trump “lying about sex," writing, “Didn’t he impeach Bill Clinton over the same thing?”
During 1999 impeachment proceedings for former President Bill Clinton, Graham said, “You don’t even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic. If this body determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role.”
Someone pick up the mic on the house floor because she just dropped it.
You mean for No tknowing that Clinton was impeached for lying under oath about sex, compared to Trump who wasn’t and hasn’t been under oath about any sexual escapades. So she was doing an apples to oranges comparison.
Your reply doesn’t address Graham’s comment about the justification for impeaching (and his vote to convict) Bill Clinton at the time:
"During 1999 impeachment proceedings for former President Bill Clinton, Graham said, “You don’t even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic. If this body determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role.”
I’m a white dude - sit on the other side of the political spectrum than her but I think she is a very pretty lady. She can come off a bit naive, but who cares I think the democrats should try to impeach.
To be fair I don’t know if she is smart but she is politically naive, which is the worst I will say about her after watching interviews based on her answers. And it’s not because I am right wing they were just silly answers that even wapo and NYT’s was going after her.
Of course you don’t have to be convicted of a crime. If the argument were true that you can’t indict a sitting President, and you had to be convicted of a crime to be impeached, then you could never impeach a sitting President.
In 1999 Graham apparently said you don’t have to even be convicted of a crime to be impeached. I didn’t see in his current statement that you had to be convicted of a crime to be impeached.
Yep! Exactly like that.