{"id":34674,"date":"2020-01-22T09:20:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T17:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=34674"},"modified":"2020-01-22T09:20:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T17:20:20","slug":"classic-ron-paul-the-real-reason-clinton-should-have-been-impeached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/22\/classic-ron-paul-the-real-reason-clinton-should-have-been-impeached\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Ron Paul: The Real Reason Clinton Should Have Been Impeached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Senate impeachment trial dominating headlines this week, it seems appropriate to look back on what Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul said about the 1998 impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference the week of the impeachment vote, Dr. Paul explained that his vote to impeach Clinton was because of Clinton waging military actions in the Mid-East. Through 1998, Clinton launched a series of attacks in the Mid-East that (coincidentally I am sure) just happened to coincide with major developments in the impeachment saga. Yet most Republicans refused to speak out against this abuse of presidential power.<\/p>\n<p>You can see Dr. Paul\u2019s remarks<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DQCrIbTmitk\">\u00a0here<\/a>. Note that Dr. Paul warned that Clinton\u2019s unconstitutional war-making could lead to terrorist attacks against the United States, so he was talking about blowback years before 9-11.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ron Paul 1998 - Clinton Impeachment and Iraq (CSPAN).mov\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DQCrIbTmitk?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Senate impeachment trial dominating headlines this week, it seems appropriate to look back on what Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul said about the 1998 impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton. At a press conference the week of the impeachment vote, Dr. Paul explained that his vote to impeach Clinton was because of Clinton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":397,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-34674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34676,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34674\/revisions\/34676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34674"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=34674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}