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Trump Impeachment: House Votes to Formalise Inquiry

posted by martyb on Friday November 01 2019, @02:18PM   
from the Red-Queen-Race dept.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50246324

"The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution to formally proceed with the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.

The measure details how the inquiry will move into a more public phase. It was not a vote on whether the president should be removed from office.

This was the first test of support in the Democratic-controlled House for the impeachment process.

The White House condemned the vote, which passed along party lines.

Only two Democrats - representing districts that Mr Trump won handily in 2016 - voted against the resolution, along with all Republicans, for a total count of 232 in favour and 196 against."

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• Re:Well they had to pass it. Re:Well they had to pass it. (Score: 2) by dry on Saturday November 02 2019, @06:14AM (3 children)

  by dry (223) on Saturday November 02 2019, @06:14AM (#914976) Journal

  I thought the way it played out was that he was asked if he had sex with Monica, he asked for a definition of sex, was answered with copulation and he honestly answered no. Strictly speaking, getting a blow job is not fucking. Like the girl who claims to be a virgin because she only takes it up the ass.

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• Re:Well they had to pass it. Re:Well they had to pass it. (Score: 1) by EEMac on Sunday November 03 2019, @11:45PM (1 child)

  by EEMac (6423) on Sunday November 03 2019, @11:45PM (#915483)

  Fair enough. I concede the point. The whole thing was, frankly, bullshit.

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  • Re:Well they had to pass it. (Score: 2) by dry on Monday November 04 2019, @12:35AM

    by dry (223) on Monday November 04 2019, @12:35AM (#915499) Journal

    Yea, dealing with lawyers is dealing in bullshit.

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• Re:Well they had to pass it. (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday November 04 2019, @07:59PM

  by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Monday November 04 2019, @07:59PM (#915874) Journal

  No. He was asked if he has a sexual relationship with her.

  Wikipedia's coverage, which read accurate to me:

  A much-quoted statement from Clinton's grand jury testimony showed him questioning the precise use of the word "is". Contending that his statement that "there's nothing going on between us" had been truthful because he had no ongoing relationship with Lewinsky at the time he was questioned, Clinton said, "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the—if he—if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement". Starr obtained further evidence of inappropriate behavior by seizing the computer hard drive and email records of Monica Lewinsky. Based on the president's conflicting testimony, Starr concluded that Clinton had committed perjury. Starr submitted his findings to Congress in a lengthy document, the Starr Report, which was released to the public via the Internet a few days later and included descriptions of encounters between Clinton and Lewinsky. Starr was criticized by Democrats for spending $70 million on an investigation that substantiated only perjury and obstruction of justice. Critics of Starr also contend that his investigation was highly politicized because it regularly leaked tidbits of information to the press in violation of legal ethics, and because his report included lengthy descriptions which were humiliating and irrelevant to the legal case.

  In short, Clinton says that because at the time of the testimony he was not in a relationship is what he said. He did not say that he never had a relationship with her. In court. (Although the famous TV moment in a televised speech was, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," and then when the blowjob was public he said that was truth because 'sexual relations' is intercourse and he only got sucked and among other things shoved a cigar up her vagina and then tasted the cigar tip. Yeah.)

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