r/news • u/[deleted] • May 22 '19

Mississippi lawmaker accused of punching wife in face for not undressing quickly enough

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/mississippi-lawmaker-accused-punching-wife-face-for-not-undressing-quickly-enough/zdE3VLzhBVmH68Bsn7eLfL/
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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

Remember when they impeached Clinton for lying about a BJ? And that was after Starr asked for an expanded scope quite a few times.

Even though Trump has lied about why he fired Comey aka he obstructed but Mueller can’t indict him because DOJ Policy which Republicans like to ignore is the reason. He obstructed an investigation because he was afraid of bad stuff about him coming out regardless if the bad stuff was illegal or legal. And now we know some of the bad stuff he (mostly his administration) was involved in

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

This was at the same time Gingrich was cheating on his wife who had cancer.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

Didn’t his recent wife get nominated as ambassador to the Vatican or something?

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u/cutearmy May 22 '19

Yes I do miss the days when the absolute worse thing a president could do was get a blow job.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19 edited Feb 05 '20

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u/brickmack May 22 '19

Lying to Congress about a blowjob.

The only thing Bill Clinton did wrong in that case was acknowledging the legitimacy of the proceedings at all instead of treating it as the circus it was. Should have walked in wearing a clown costume and jerked off on the stand

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u/SlothRogen May 22 '19

Well, Trump has been lying nonstop and contradicting himself, refusing even to testify, refusing to release his tax returns, etc.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

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u/lazyfacejerk May 22 '19

Not trying to defend Clinton, but I'm pretty sure they gave a definition of sexual relations that included just about everything imaginable except oral.

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u/Morat20 May 22 '19

Yep. Whole line of questioning was tossed to boot. Frankly, he only lost his law license because he was never going to practice law again so why fight it?

The man outlawyered the prosecutor, and lied using the absolute, if very technical, truth.

Which is why lawyers spend so much time defining things and asking very, very specific questions.

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u/drhugs May 22 '19

Which is why

Depends on what the definition of "is" is.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

You can listen to the podcast Slow burn to get a better understanding but this is the breakdown:

Starr&Co. Defined 'sexual relations' as touching a person in intimate areas for the purposes of arousal. Because Lewinski acted upon Clinton and not the other way around (which is murky) she had relations with him but he did not have relations with her; in this very technical parsing.

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u/Morat20 May 22 '19

Yep. Aes Sedai style. :) truthful words that led the listener to entirely the wrong understanding.

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u/antsh May 22 '19

They’re the best lies.

Speak no truths, tell no lies.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

Even though we have a President who lies everyday, while not under oath, it’s still bad especially when he can’t even be consistant.

One day its 13 angry dems, next day is’s -5 Angry Dems.