TexasScientist said:
Sam Lowry said:
BrooksBearLives said:
What? It was a blank refusal to participate.
To participate in what?
Clinton complied with subpoenas. Clinton was smarter about how he handled the process. He stayed on task of running the country. As a result, the public didn't turn against him and he was reelected. (I'm not a Clinton fan or supporter). Trump is not that smart and he will be the cause of his own defeat in 2020, because of the way he conducts himself.
Can you imagine how Trump and his suppoters would have responded to the list of questions Brett Kavanaugh wrote for Ken Starr to ask Clinton. Wonder how Kavanaugh views Trump's response to this impeachment inquiry, since he was so gung ho about impeaching Clinton for lying about a sordid affair. That seems small compared with using government military aide as an incentive to get the government of Ukraine to investigate the son of a political opponent in order to ruin him:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/20/brett-kavanaugh-bill-clinton-explicit-questions-lewinsky-789599"The idea of going easy on him at the questioning is ... abhorrent to me," Kavanaugh wrote in
the two-page memo, which was sent to Starr and all other attorneys on his staff on Aug. 15, 1998. "The President has disgraced his Office, the legal system, and the American people by having sex with a 22-year-old intern and turning her life into a shambles callous and disgusting behavior that has somehow gotten lost in the shuffle. ... He has tried to disgrace you and this Office with a sustained propaganda campaign that would make Nixon blush.
Kavanaugh's tone in the memo could fuel questions at his confirmation hearings about whether Starr's prosecution went beyond an investigation of criminal conduct, evolving into a moral crusade against Clinton.
"He should be forced to account for all of that and to defend his actions," Kavanaugh added in a bold font. "It may not be our job to impose sanctions on him, but it is our job to make his pattern of revolting behavior clear piece by painful piece on Monday."
The memo goes on to list 10 questions he proposed for Clinton, six of which are explicit and several of which are extraordinarily graphic.
Among the questions:
"If Monica Lewinsky says that on several occasions in the Oval Office area, you used your fingers to stimulate her vagina and bring her to orgasm, would she be lying?"
"If Monica Lewinsky says that on several occasions you had her give oral sex, made her stop, and then ejaculated into the sink in the bathroom of the Oval Office, would she be lying?"
"If Monica Lewinsky says that you masturbated into a trashcan in your secretary's office, would she be lying?"
Kavanaugh's views on whether Starr should discuss Clinton's conduct in graphic detail appear to have varied, even around the time he wrote the memo. Later that same month, Kavanaugh wrote to colleagues that he was concerned with the volume of explicit content in a report to Congress that Starr was preparing.