Posted on 05/27/2026 7:43:38 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
Gingrich said the impeachment of Bill Clinton argued that the proceedings became overly focused on sex instead of perjury and obstruction of justice.
Gingrich said the effort was undermined because it became publicly associated with Monica Lewinsky rather than the broader legal issues surrounding sworn testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit.
Ken Starr's investigation later expanded to include allegations surrounding Clinton's relationship with Lewinsky and testimony tied to the Paula Jones lawsuit.
The findings led House Republicans to impeach Clinton making him the second president in U.S. history to be impeached.
"Is he allowed to commit felonies?'" Gingrich said. But by allowing it to be about sex, it trivialized it."
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Please get the terminology correct. These distinctions are Constitutionally important.
1. Clinton was impeached,
2. He was acquitted in the Senate trial.
I agree with Gingrich in the sense, if there was any doubt* about getting a Senate conviction the impeachment shouldn’t have been done at all. All the Clinton impeachment did was cheapen the process. I was all for it at the time. Hindsight now says it was a mistake.
* There was never going to be the 2/3rds Senate majority for conviction no matter what evidence was presented.
Should have been over Filegate or Chinagate.
THAT was the time to say, “We don’t care. It’s all about the vote, not who casts it.” (which is pretty much finally where we are today with Paxton outing Cornhole.)
I agree.
He was very dismissive of the whole impeachment push for 90% of the time in the months leading up to it.
He changed his mind very quickly — and very definitively — at a specific point in the process. He basically said Clinton’s impeachment became inevitable once the House committee heard public testimony from ordinary Americans who had been prosecuted and convicted of crimes for doing the exact same thing Clinton had done.
Without a serious Senate trial resulting a conviction it was bad political theater!
Let’s be clear—it was the democrats and media who defended Clinton by pushing the line “it’s only sex” and thereby trivialized it. Ken Starr just did his job, and democrats painted him as a sexually obsessed weirdo. Probably true that the republican caucus fumbled the opportunity, but they had a lot of help from the other side.
“”””The problem was Clintons team with a compliant media made it about sex.””””
Exactly true.
Co-President Hillary Clinton should have been impeached and then executed by hanging. To this day, we still don’t know how the 900 raw FBI files appeared out of nowhere in one of the Whitehouse hallways. Supposedly Craig Livingston dropped them off, but who gave him the documents? Something the media (and Republicans) never cared to investigate.
That was by design, Newt, or haven't you figured that out yet?
Now consider WHO led that effort. Check out the MSM as your first culprit...if you haven't figured THAT out either.
Correct. Bill said: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”
He didn’t. Just an occasional cigar and a lot of BJs.
NOT impeachable offenses.
Lying under oath in federal court is.
Chris Matthews threw us a lotta bones-didn’t help. I enjoyed Christopher Hitchens.
Gingrich turns back on the 5 rape cases Clinton walked away free from.
D.C. law it’s only depends on who you are.
Democrats grin ear lobes wet.
Weren’t those the ones where Senators refused to look at the evidence? I think one senator did said it was horrible then voted for acquittal during the Senate trial.
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I don’t see how that’s Gingrich’s fault.
The Senate was never going to do its job.
The Newt Gingrich scandal primarily refers to his 1997 ethics violations, where he became the first Speaker of the House to be reprimanded and fined for ethics infractions. He was penalized for using tax-exempt, non-profit organizations to fund politically oriented college courses and for misleading the House ethics committee during the investigation.
One of the boys that make things happen.
I thought we were talking about Gingrich and Clinton’s impeachment\trial.
Someone had dirt on a lot of GOP senators.
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