Peter Baker's book
The Breach details the impeachment in 1998, and the Senate trial in 1999, of William Jefferson Clinton. The volume's final chapter,
The Most Difficult, Wrenching, and Soul-Searching Vote, describes just as fully the management of the case being brought against the President by - wait for it - Mitch McConnell .
Even factors like the order in which Senators spoke (AKA "testified") in favor or against any of the Articles of Impeachment are outlined, as are:
- jockeying among Senators for advantageous positions in the order of speakers
- infighting among the president's advisers
- pressure among
Democrats to call for Clinton's resignation
- the War
Room set up by Tom DeLay to force Clinton out of office
- the anxiety of some lawmakers who feared the
exposure of their own secrets
Given that management of the process coming to the Senate soon is even more firmly Mr. McConnell's grip, and that most Republican Senators exist in a
chimera of belief in Mr. Trump, we could very well see at least some of these circumstances repeat themselves.
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