'Members of the Senate have said, 'I understand everything there is about this case, and I won't vote to impeach the president.' Please allow the facts to do the talking,' Graham said in 1998.
He went on:"Members of the Senate have said, 'I understand everything there is about this case, and I won't vote to impeach the president.' Please allow the facts to do the talking. Nobody knows what the articles of impeachment are. People have made up their mind in a political fashion that will hurt this country long term."
He cautioned:"If you can't vote for impeachment, give us the due justice to the case. Don't decide the case before the case is in. And this bothers me greatly." The remarks stand in stark contrast to Graham's position on the impeachment inquiry against Trump, just over two decades later. In fact, Graham has said he plans to do exactly what he urged lawmakers not to do in 1998.conservative Fox News host Sean Hannity last week. He said that he did not plan to watch the first public hearing of the impeachment inquiry"because I think it is a threat to the presidency.
Graham voted with Republicans in the House to impeach Clinton in 1998. However, the Senate acquitted the president of the charges, because the required two-thirds majority did not vote to remove the president. That impeachment process was largely partisan, with Republicans opposing the president while Democrats were supportive.
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