RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
April 30, 2024 at 6:51 pm
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2024 at 6:52 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(April 30, 2024 at 6:47 pm)ShinyCrystals Wrote:(April 30, 2024 at 6:41 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: No, not similar at all. It’s not illegal to have an affair. It’s not even illegal to pay hush money to keep the affair quiet. Trump allegedly falsified business records in an attempt to hide a payment he made to keep Daniels from releasing information that might have hurt him in the election - that’s the illegal bit. Clinton, on the other hand, had an affair while already in office, so there was no question of election interference.
Clinton was impeached over his affair and lying about it.
Boru
Affair, you say?
It may be no different in being legal, but I was talking about adultery, not just the affair part, and even if I am wrong on this, I did not say something about it being legal or illegal. Anyway, I was just talking about the adultery part, and I am sure I did say some of the differences between the two, and I can imagine the two situation still have a lot in differences. While I may have been wrong on Clinton not being impeached, I am not sure if he was ever kicked out of office before 2000. (what happened there, anyway?) Still, I was not directly talking about election interference.
But no matter how different those two situations may be different in plenty a ways, I am sure what they did was adultery.
Impeachment and being kicked out of office are two different things. Impeachment is when the House decides if the President should face trial in the Senate - the House functions sort of like a grand jury. Clinton was (for want of a better term) indicted by the House of Representatives. He was acquitted by the Senate.
You didn’t say that anyone was tried for adultery, nor did I say you said that.
Boru
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