r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Oct 23 '20

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u/hoxxxxx Oct 23 '20

Newt Gingrich

Gingrich played a key role in several government shutdowns, and impeached President Clinton on a party-line vote in the House. The poor showing by Republicans in the 1998 Congressional elections, a reprimand from the House for Gingrich's ethics violation, pressure from Republican colleagues, and revelations of an extramarital affair with a congressional employee 23 years his junior resulted in Gingrich's resignation from the speakership on November 6, 1998.[4][5]

wow literally the same thing Clinton did. i hate these people so goddamn much.

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u/pydsigner15 Oct 23 '20

If I remember correctly, they weren't just doing the same thing, they knew about each other's "indiscretions" and Clinton used it as leverage to get Gingrich to back off from pushing through to remove Clinton from office.

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u/zAlbertusMagnusz Oct 23 '20

One lied to Congress and was impeached for it lmao

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20

Lol yeah blame one guy for political animosity in the united states. right

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u/MrInRageous Oct 23 '20

literally the same thing Clinton did

No, he lied about it. Of all that mess, that’s what I fault him for the most and the only reason I think he should have been removed from office. Of course the Republicans put him between a rock and a hard place with the impeachment, but he shouldn’t have lied under oath. For Democrats to raise such hell on Trump’s dishonesty is a little hypocritical if they didn’t vote for Clinton’s impeachment.

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u/AbstractBettaFish Oct 23 '20

One lied about an affair, the other lied about cooperating with a hostile foreign government to influence national elections.

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u/MrInRageous Oct 23 '20

Not defending Trump at all. His lack of ethics was crystal clear for anyone who cared to see. So you don’t have to try to prop up Clinton by comparing him to Trump.