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76 points

Remember the outrage! A president who didn’t tell the truth about his sex life right away was unthinkable!

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56 points

More than that, we tried to impeach him for it! Imagine that, our politicians being held accountable for their dishonesty.

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No, they tried to impeach him. They were just looking for any angle to do it with. They assigned an open ended special prosecution to find something, anything they could use and Clinton decided to perjure himself on it. It wasn’t noble

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Listen, I’m not saying Clinton wasn’t rad as a president – he was – but I’d also say him cheating on his wife wasn’t very “noble”, either. Nor was lying about it on TV to the entire country after getting caught.

Yeah, I know, it’s Hillary, but still not a cool thing to do.

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To be clear, for anyone too young to remember, he WAS impeached for 2 reasons: lying under oath and obstruction of justice.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton#:~:text=The House adopted two articles,rejected by the House vote.

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It’s pretty funny

During the deposition, Clinton was asked “Have you ever had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky, as that term is defined in Deposition Exhibit 1?” The judge ordered that Clinton be given an opportunity to review the agreed definition. Afterwards, based on the definition created by the Independent Counsel’s Office, Clinton answered, “I have never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky.” Clinton later said, “I thought the definition included any activity by [me], where [I] was the actor and came in contact with those parts of the bodies” which had been explicitly listed (and “with an intent to gratify or arouse the sexual desire of any person”). In other words, Clinton denied that he had ever contacted Lewinsky’s “genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks”, and effectively claimed that the agreed-upon definition of “sexual relations” included giving oral sex but excluded receiving oral sex

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This is the most lawyer thing I’ve read. Hahaha. I totally forgot about that.

Yes I abused my position of power to get head from a junior intern. But… the rules are the rules, what you gonna do?

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Bro sexually assaulted an intern in the White House. Let’s not pretend it was just sex life.

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He did not sexually assault Monica Lewinsky. It was a consensual relationship. He was accused of lying about it in a deposition. That was the alleged crime.

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To be clear about what happened - she did say (maybe about ten years ago, post me- too), that she realizes Clinton took advantage of her. That doesn’t change her opinion overall that it was consensual, but she recognizes the power imbalance played a role in what she did.

That’s the part being pointed out by the other commenter.

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Lololol whatever you need to tell yourself.

Most powerful man in America is getting head from a 22 year old in office who had come out afterwards and said she was pressured and it was unwanted but your going to go to bat.

But grab her by the pussy is just locker room talk 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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24 points

So you’re certain that her own account of it is a lie? How progressive

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6 points

Compare that to the orange felon who lies and crimes non-stop, so much so that people cannot possibly focus on any one offense.

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No it was clearly an official duty as defined circa 2024

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