Good news!
You might not be familiar with him, since he tends to avoid the public eye, but
Newt Gingrich, Fox News Corp expert witness, history professor, and Speaker of the House from 1995-1999 is, with Carl Albert's death, the
foremost living expert on impeachment, due to his integral role in the impeachment of William "Bill" Clinton in 1998. "Bill" Clinton was impeached on the basis of lying to investigators regarding a bit of "harmless" adultery.
What does
Gingrich say about the greatest witch hunt in American history?
Quote:
Technically, the President of the United States cannot obstruct justice.
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So you know this is a good one, because sentences that start with
technically always turn out to be really insightful. But let me spell it out: this means that it doesn't matter why The Donald fired Comey. It doesn't matter if he fires Rosenstein and Mueller.
He is our sovereign; justice has no meaning outside of its role for the sovereign!
The President cannot obstruct justice, in exactly the same way that, on the authority of the highest law in the land, the President's lawyer, a man cannot rape his own wife.
By its very definition, it's not possible, it's an absurdity.
So, case closed. We can finally get back to the issue of prosecuting a woman I like to hear called
Crooked Hillary.
Gingrich was floated as a potential for many cabinet positions and rejected, eventually settling into his off-the-books, unpaid position as
Planner Chief Advisor Senior. I'm glad to see that he harbors no ill will to Donald Trump for being passed up so relentlessly. Of course he shouldn't-- there'll always be room in the Trump administration!
Buy his new book,
Understanding Trump!