{"id":28655,"date":"2018-03-15T00:20:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28655"},"modified":"2018-03-15T00:20:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:20:04","slug":"is-there-an-impeachable-offense-in-this-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28655","title":{"rendered":"Is there an impeachable offense in this scandal?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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President Bill Clinton was impeached because he answered falsely to a question — posed before a grand jury — about whether he had a sexual relationship with a young White House intern.<\/p>\n

Congressional Republicans were waiting for a reason to impeach the Democratic president. The president handed it to them by perjuring himself before a grand jury assembled by special prosecutor Kenneth Starr. Let’s remember that Starr’s probe began with an examination of a real estate matter involving the president and the first lady. We called it “Whitewater.” It was centered in Arkansas.<\/p>\n

Somehow, though, it weaved its way toward the relationship the president had with a much-younger woman who was working in the West Wing.<\/p>\n

Two decades later, a new special counsel, Robert Mueller, is conducting an investigation into Russian collusion, obstruction of justice and assorted other dealings involving — allegedly — Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n

I now am wondering if this current sex controversy involving Trump and a porn star is somehow going to end up on Mueller’s list of issues to investigate.<\/p>\n

Trump has denied having an affair with this woman. Her lawyer has said on the record that the future president and his client did have a sexual relationship.<\/p>\n

Given the sometimes-unpredictable nature of these investigations, I am left to wonder what might happen if he is able to subpoena Trump to testify before a grand jury he has assembled.<\/p>\n

Is it at all possible that Mueller could ask Trump — who would be compelled to swear to tell “the whole truth and nothing but the truth” — whether he had an affair with this porn queen.<\/p>\n

If Trump says “no,” and if the porn queen produces proof that she and Trump took a tumble in 2006, is that grounds for an impeachment?<\/p>\n

Holy moly, man! Might history be capable of repeating itself?<\/p>\n

Let’s all wait for all of this to play out.<\/p>\n\n

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