Trump Ally Lindsey Graham Once Said President Could Be Impeached for Not Complying with Congressiona

[Eugene]

Source: Newsweek

TRUMP ALLY LINDSEY GRAHAM ONCE SAID PRESIDENT COULD BE IMPEACHED FOR NOT COMPLYING WITH CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT

BY DANIEL MORITZ-RABSON ON 4/26/19 AT 5:15 PM EDT

Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of President Donald Trump’s, once said that a president's refusal to comply with congressional oversight was an impeachable offense.

In a video unearthed from December 1998 circulating on Twitter on Friday, the South Carolina legislator passionately states that Richard Nixon could have been impeached for failing to comply with subpoenas from Congress.

"The day Richard Nixon failed to answer that subpoena is the day he was subject to impeachment because he took the power from Congress over the impeachment process away from Congress, and he became the judge and jury," Graham said two decades ago.

At the time, then-Representative Graham was a member of the House Judiciary Committee, and subsequently served as a manager in the unsuccessful impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton.

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Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/lindsey-graham-once-said-failing-comply-subpoenas-impeachable-1407455

[shanny]

1. this footage, and other comments like it, needs to be on a loop

alongside current weasel words from the same sources

[kimbutgar]

2. When he comes on those Sunday corporate political shows someone should have the guts

To play this video and ask him why he thinks so differently now?