Post by the Scribe on Mar 5, 2021 22:11:59 GMT
As if dozens of Benghazi hearings pre-election weren't enough to try to cancel Clinton's presidential run the conservative cancel culturists were preparing to cancel her by even more bogus means had she taken office. Let's be clear. Hillary DID WIN THE ELECTION. GOP election shenanigans stole that election as they did in 2000 and 2004.
REPUBLICANS ARE ALREADY TALKING ABOUT IMPEACHING CLINTON
www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/republicans-are-already-talking-about-impeaching-clinton
The G.O.P. is warning of a “constitutional crisis” if Clinton wins.
BY ABIGAIL TRACY
NOVEMBER 4, 2016
With the latest polls showing Hillary Clinton remains likely to win the election on Tuesday, Republicans are preparing for the possibility of a second Clinton White House by promising to make the next four years a living hell. Some lawmakers are talking openly about refusing to approve any Supreme Court nominees until a Republican is elected president, the F.B.I. is investigating both the Clinton Foundation and the former secretary of state’s use of a private e-mail server, and House Republicans have vowed to launch additional investigations of their own. Now, a growing number of conservatives are warning that there could be a “constitutional crisis” if Clinton is elected, and threatening her with impeachment.
While the F.B.I. is currently looking into both Clinton and Donald Trump, there is currently no reason to believe an indictment is forthcoming, despite the “large swath of F.B.I. personnel” who reportedly see the Democratic nominee as “the antichrist personified.” The word “investigation” is “a term of art in the F.B.I.,” reports NBC’s Pete Williams. “There was an initial inquiry that was opened a couple months ago based largely on media reports and a book called Clinton Cash.” Still, that hasn’t stopped a number of Republican lawmakers from jumping the gun. “There's been nothing like this where you can have potential criminal charges,” New York Rep. Peter King said in a radio interview Tuesday. “You really could have a constitutional crisis here,” he added, echoing a similar charge by Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert and Wisconsin Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner.
Other Republicans are already using the “I” word. “Assuming she wins, and the investigation goes forward, and it looks like an indictment is pending, at that point in time, under the Constitution, the House of Representatives would engage in an impeachment trial," Texas Rep. Michael McCaul said on Fox News. “They would go to the Senate and impeachment proceedings and removal would take place.” Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson declared that Clinton could be impeached for “high crime or misdemeanor.” And Donald Trump, who has turned “lock her up” into a rallying cry at his campaign stops, said Wednesday that Clinton would be impeached just as surely as Bill Clinton was. “You know it’s going to happen. And in all fairness, we went through it with her husband. He was impeached,” the Republican nominee said at a rally in Florida Wednesday, adding that Hillary is “most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency.”
President Barack Obama slammed the impeachment talk in a scathing speech Wednesday at a campaign stop for Clinton in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. “You've got some Republicans in Congress who are already suggesting they will impeach Hillary,” Obama said. “She hasn't even been elected yet. And it doesn't matter what evidence they just—they’ll find something. That’s what they’re saying already.”
Not every Republican is ready to throw Clinton in jail. In a radio interview Tuesday, Texas senator John Cornyn said discussions of impeachment were “premature” as Clinton hasn’t even been elected yet. “And unless there is some additional evidence that the F.B.I. director and the Justice Department would take to a grand jury, then she is not likely to be convicted of a crime.” But that doesn’t mean they aren’t preparing to derail her potential presidency with a never-ending series of congressional hearings and investigations that could make the gridlock and partisanship of the Obama years look cordial by comparison. “Even before we get to Day One, we’ve got two years’ worth of material already lined up, Utah Rep Jason Chaffetz, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said last week. “She has four years of history at the State Department, and it ain’t good.”
REPUBLICANS ARE ALREADY TALKING ABOUT IMPEACHING CLINTON
www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/republicans-are-already-talking-about-impeaching-clinton
The G.O.P. is warning of a “constitutional crisis” if Clinton wins.
BY ABIGAIL TRACY
NOVEMBER 4, 2016
With the latest polls showing Hillary Clinton remains likely to win the election on Tuesday, Republicans are preparing for the possibility of a second Clinton White House by promising to make the next four years a living hell. Some lawmakers are talking openly about refusing to approve any Supreme Court nominees until a Republican is elected president, the F.B.I. is investigating both the Clinton Foundation and the former secretary of state’s use of a private e-mail server, and House Republicans have vowed to launch additional investigations of their own. Now, a growing number of conservatives are warning that there could be a “constitutional crisis” if Clinton is elected, and threatening her with impeachment.
While the F.B.I. is currently looking into both Clinton and Donald Trump, there is currently no reason to believe an indictment is forthcoming, despite the “large swath of F.B.I. personnel” who reportedly see the Democratic nominee as “the antichrist personified.” The word “investigation” is “a term of art in the F.B.I.,” reports NBC’s Pete Williams. “There was an initial inquiry that was opened a couple months ago based largely on media reports and a book called Clinton Cash.” Still, that hasn’t stopped a number of Republican lawmakers from jumping the gun. “There's been nothing like this where you can have potential criminal charges,” New York Rep. Peter King said in a radio interview Tuesday. “You really could have a constitutional crisis here,” he added, echoing a similar charge by Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert and Wisconsin Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner.
Other Republicans are already using the “I” word. “Assuming she wins, and the investigation goes forward, and it looks like an indictment is pending, at that point in time, under the Constitution, the House of Representatives would engage in an impeachment trial," Texas Rep. Michael McCaul said on Fox News. “They would go to the Senate and impeachment proceedings and removal would take place.” Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson declared that Clinton could be impeached for “high crime or misdemeanor.” And Donald Trump, who has turned “lock her up” into a rallying cry at his campaign stops, said Wednesday that Clinton would be impeached just as surely as Bill Clinton was. “You know it’s going to happen. And in all fairness, we went through it with her husband. He was impeached,” the Republican nominee said at a rally in Florida Wednesday, adding that Hillary is “most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency.”
President Barack Obama slammed the impeachment talk in a scathing speech Wednesday at a campaign stop for Clinton in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. “You've got some Republicans in Congress who are already suggesting they will impeach Hillary,” Obama said. “She hasn't even been elected yet. And it doesn't matter what evidence they just—they’ll find something. That’s what they’re saying already.”
Not every Republican is ready to throw Clinton in jail. In a radio interview Tuesday, Texas senator John Cornyn said discussions of impeachment were “premature” as Clinton hasn’t even been elected yet. “And unless there is some additional evidence that the F.B.I. director and the Justice Department would take to a grand jury, then she is not likely to be convicted of a crime.” But that doesn’t mean they aren’t preparing to derail her potential presidency with a never-ending series of congressional hearings and investigations that could make the gridlock and partisanship of the Obama years look cordial by comparison. “Even before we get to Day One, we’ve got two years’ worth of material already lined up, Utah Rep Jason Chaffetz, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said last week. “She has four years of history at the State Department, and it ain’t good.”