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GOP senator says Biden ‘may not be’ impeachable since he wasn’t in office during accused actions
(www.washingtontimes.com)
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History says that it won't. See: The impeachment of Bill Clinton. For the young ones out there, President Clinton was relentlessly attacked by the Republicans. They claimed that he and Hillary killed a guy and also had crooked land deals. (Among other things.) They launched huge investigations which turned up nothing.
Nothing except that Bill was having an affair with an intern and lied about it once to Congress. Got him!
So they impeached him for lying to Congress, though to most of America it sounded like impeaching him for having an affair. Certainly, not a very moral thing to do, but not "high crimes and misdemeanors." The impeachment passed the House but not the Senate.
The Republicans expected that impeaching President Clinton would neuter his support and they would rise to victory. Instead, the opposite happened. People are angry over the obvious political impeachment and gave the win to the Democrats.
I think that most of the Republicans realize that this will backfire on them. However, Trump is demanding that Biden be impeached and they are too cowardly to say no. So they are hoping against hope that they find something, ANYTHING to actually impeach Biden on while they rocket towards a repeat of Clinton's impeachment minus the affair.