Ocasio-Cortez: By Graham's 1999 standard for Clinton, Trump should be impeached"

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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."

“You don’t need to have been convicted of a crime. Impeachment isn’t about punishment. It’s about cleansing the office,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a tweet tagging the Republican senator.

“Sen. Graham himself established a standard that demands Trump’s impeachment,” she wrote.
Graham later compared Trump to former President Bill Clinton, who was impeached after he was found to have lied about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

“I voted against that article of impeachment, because I think most people, blindsided, would lie to protect their family,” Graham said. “Lying about sex wasn’t enough then for me and it’s not enough now.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...ams-1999-standard-for-clinton-trump-should-be
 
she's clueless as always!
"You don’t need to have been convicted of a crime. Impeachment isn’t about punishment. It’s about cleansing the office"
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What an IDIOT.. Elections are about "cleaning the office". Impeachment is high malfeasance of Office
 
She's wrong about the first part. Not only hasn't Trump lied about sex, but, he hasn't done so under oath.

As to the nature of impeachment, that part is correct. Impeachment is a political process, and not a legal process. It is assumed that a public official who has actually committed serious criminal offenses will still be liable for prosecution after the fact.
 
It's not purely political either.
"High crimes and misdemeanors" is a criminal underpinning of charges of impeachment if nothing else

Edit for Idiots:
Impeachment is NOT a normal course of electoral process! Maxine Waters chanting otherwise to make it so.
Elections are the peoples will
 
Maxine Waters Calls for Trump Impeachment: 'He Is Dangerous,' Aligned With Putin
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/12/...again-says-president-dangerous-and-will-cause
Rep. Maxine Waters said late Wednesday that Democrats who are acting sheepish about impeaching President Trump may be doing so out of fear of a "revolt.
She blasted several Republican senators, including John Thune of South Dakota and Orrin Hatch of Utah, for continuing to support the president in the wake of what she considered impeachable offenses relating to the Cohen case.

"Just watching those members of the Senate basically make excuses... is pathetic," she said. "They don't care about the rule of law."
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Waters said Trump "created this hush money" that was used to pay off women he allegedly had affairs with prior to being elected president.

"Trump would like to redefine the law," she said, adding that many Democrats are afraid of being seen as "overstepping" their bounds and "causing backlash."

"Maybe they don't want to fail at [impeachment]. They believe Trump will cause a revolt, you talk about violence."
 
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