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I'm going to add a little nuance here, hopefully without opposing your point. Clinton was played like a fiddle by Newt Gingrich and his band of hucksters. He was the start of truly aggressive, unrelenting, "whatever it takes to win" republicanism in the modern era. They got wind of a sex scandal, and absolutely blew it up as the biggest thing to ever happen. They controlled the narrative and had all of America clutching its collective pearls. Then, they hauled him into one of these dog-and-pony-show hearings, and set the trap. Bill idiotically walked right into it, perjuring himself in what was really a useless stunt. This gave the Gingrich Gang all the ammo they needed to force an impeachment vote and destroy the Democratic Party for generations. So, it's not that Bill is singularly responsible for the current shit show, but his hubris and idiocy made the downfall possible.
It's crazy you typed all that up. And then ended it with essentially:
You know who else thinks investigations into wrong doings are "perjury traps"?
I fucking swear, it's impossible for anyone to defend either Clinton without sounding like MAGA.
Two sides of the same worthless coin.
To you, there's no version where Clinton could have just not done it in the first place, or at least been honest.
The only flaw you admitted was:
He testified?
You'd have preferred he acted more like trump and yet you can't even see how the one set the stage for the other?
Just...
What the fuck man?
You’re both-sides-ing legal sexual impropriety versus literal insurrection, stealing secret documents, and election tampering. They aren’t even remotely the same. Bill did the same bad shit so many presidents have done; it doesn’t excuse him from being a douchebag, but even you have to admit it’s not even in the same universe as Trump.