Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-CortezImage of Pelosi leaving an exploding White House projected onto California federal building Ocasio-Cortez on call to run for president: ‘How about … no’ Overnight Energy — Sponsored by the National Biodiesel Board — Oil lease sale in Alaska nets .5M | House climate panel likely won't pass bills | EPA hires new head of Chesapeake office MORE (D-N.Y.) blasted Sen. Lindsey Graham Lindsey Olin GrahamSenate votes to end US support for Saudi war, bucking Trump Former FBI official says Mueller won’t be ‘colored by politics’ in Russia probe GOP-controlled Senate breaks with Trump on Saudi vote MORE (R-S.C.) on Twitter Friday for seemingly reversing his stance on the standards necessary to impeach a president.
Ocasio-Cortez tweeted a Daily Beast story quoting Graham saying that he is fine with President Trump Donald John TrumpProsecutors investigating Trump inaugural fund, pro-Trump super PAC for possible illegal foreign donations: NY Times George Conway: Why take Trump's word over prosecutors' if he 'lies about virtually everything' Federal judge says lawsuit over Trump travel ban waivers will proceed MORE “lying about sex," writing, "Didn’t he impeach Bill Clinton William (Bill) Jefferson ClintonA missed opportunity for Democrats in the border wall showdown Dem pollster blames Gingrich for current partisan strife The Hill's 12:30 Report — Trump says he 'never directed' Cohen to break the law | GOP reels from Trump shutdown threat | Alleged spy Butina pleads guilty to conspiracy charge MORE over the same thing?"
During 1999 impeachment proceedings for former President Clinton, Graham said, "You don’t even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic. If this body determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role."
“You don’t need to have been convicted of a crime. Impeachment isn’t about punishment. It’s about cleansing the office,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a tweet tagging the GOP senator.
“Sen. Graham himself established a standard that demands Trump’s impeachment,” she wrote.
“You don’t need to have been convicted of a crime. Impeachment isn’t about punishment. It’s about cleansing the office.”
Sen. Graham himself established a standard that demands Trump’s impeachment. pic.twitter.com/s4937hsKaB — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) December 14, 2018
Ocasio-Cortez also included a video from Now This, a liberal media outlet, that showed several prominent Republicans, including Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellMcConnell sets Monday test vote on criminal justice bill Senate votes to end US support for Saudi war, bucking Trump Former FBI official says Mueller won’t be ‘colored by politics’ in Russia probe MORE (R-Ky.) and Graham, calling for Clinton's impeachment.
Ocasio-Cortez's comments came in response to an appearance by Graham on Fox News Friday, in which the senator defended Trump, claiming that the president is "always under siege."
"He is saying this one minute and that the next. It’s what he does that matters,” Graham added.
Graham dismissed allegations that Trump ordered his onetime lawyer Michael Cohen to make hush money payments to two women claiming to have had affairs with Trump in order to buy their silence in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election.
Graham later compared Trump to former President Bill Clinton, who was impeached after he was found to have lied about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
“I voted against that article of impeachment, because I think most people, blindsided, would lie to protect their family,” Graham said. “Lying about sex wasn’t enough then for me and it’s not enough now.”
PaperbackBuddha on December 15th, 2018 at 00:37 UTC »
Why hasn’t someone edited together every scrap of footage where conservatives justified the service of subpoenas and impeachment (when it suited them in 1999), then run it constantly in ads on Fox News? It’s perhaps the only place where it would make a difference.
Their viewers would think that those people had actually said those things, because they did.
zablyzibly on December 15th, 2018 at 00:17 UTC »
Fuck Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell. Good for her for roasting them both.
PhillyIndy on December 15th, 2018 at 00:13 UTC »
Rush Limbaugh today was literally going crazy saying that the media and the deep state should stay out of Trumps personal sex life, and leave it up to the voters.
I nearly drove off the road.
Cognitive dissonance and selective amnesia are like super powers for people on the right.