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Originally Posted by Miss Shelby
Did the man face criminal charges? And do you think he really paid that fine, mickey?
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Besides this being a Tu Quoque argument, it's a bad one.
Besides what was already said:
1. Bill Clinton was also disbarred.
2. Any unproven payments Clinton given to Lewinsky, they weren't literal cash illegally coming from his campaign. There's a distinction here, at least a legal one.
3. I'm pretty much fine with throwing Clinton under the bus.
Typically, even if you can invoke a "you too" argument, Trump almost always has confounding factors that make his crimes worse. He's a terrible, terrible man.
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4. I don't even think he actually committed perjury. In the time period, I read the transcripts, and I thought he was acting like a too-clever-by-half lawyer who was trying not to lie, but not actually giving the opposing side the information they wanted. It's this testimony where "It depends on what the definition of 'is' is." comes from. He was trying to walk that line between evasiveness and perjury. He might have crossed it, but it's a hard sell in a trial.