![]() ![]() Henry Hyde - each had their own history of illicit sexual encounters Gingrich was having an affair while pushing to impeach Clinton. (Yes, that is the Whitewater affair that Trump's campaign accidentally disclosed it will be dredging up to attack Hillary Clinton.) It's also because his main Republican antagonists in the impeachment trial - House Speakers Newt Gingrich, Bob Livingston, and ( we now know) Dennis Hastert, plus Sen. ![]() That's in part because many voters saw impeachment as an overreach, even though Clinton had lied (or relied on an obscure definition of "sexual relations") under oath about an affair with an intern during a six-year, $50 million taxpayer-funded investigation into a 1980s failed Arkansas land deal. To begin with, as Paul Waldman notes, these scandals were endlessly litigated in the 1990s, and Clinton essentially won. ![]() Bill Clinton has sometimes been a distraction when stumping for his wife's presidential campaign, and he arguably does more harm than good.īut Donald Trump has his own Bill Clinton problems, and refighting the political wars from the 1990s won't fix them. These past two weeks, essentially the first in the general election campaign, Trump has taken us back to the 1990s, the Bill Clinton presidency, especially Clinton's extramarital affairs, even an unsubstantiated rape allegation and the nutty idea that Bill and Hillary had their friend Vince Foster iced. If your answer is no, that would be boring, you're in luck. ![]()
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