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Sun Dec 15, 2019, 03:13 PM Dec 2019

Trump tears up the Clinton impeachment playbook

After the House Judiciary Committee voted to approve articles of impeachment, the president strode to a White House microphone, declared “profound remorse” for his actions and begged forgiveness.

“What I want the American people to know, what I want the Congress to know, is that I am profoundly sorry for all I have done wrong in words and deeds,” he said.

The year was 1998. The president was Bill Clinton. A banner headline in The New York Times the next day read “Panel, on party lines, votes impeachment; Clinton voices remorse, invites censure.”

Twenty years and one day after that print edition, the same committee again voted along party lines to impeach a president. But this time, the man in the Oval Office sent a different message.

"It's a scam," President Donald Trump told reporters. "It's something that shouldn't be allowed and it's a very bad thing for our country. ... I watched the Democrats and the committee make fools out of themselves."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-tears-up-the-clinton-impeachment-playbook/ar-AAK6KAL?ocid=NL_ENUS_A1_20191215_4_2

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