The Independent Counsel who led the impeachment charge against Bill Clinton warned the Senate not to remove a president for petty offenses.
On Monday, President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial defense got underway in earnest with a presentation from former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, now acting as one of Trump’s defense attorneys.
. On Monday, though, his job was to argue that Trump should not be impeached and removed from office for the charge that he attempted to extort a foreign ally into announcing politically useful investigations into rivals and blocked all efforts by Congress to look into the case. • Second, Starr, who led an effort to impeach Clinton that was opposed by a large majority of the country, said that impeachment—which has. Repeatedly citing the experience of people who “lived through the Clinton impeachment,” the architect of the Clinton impeachment argued that “presidential impeachment has become a weapon to be wielded against one’s political opponent.
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