Flashback: Democrat Chuck Schumer Warned That Clinton’s Impeachment Would ‘Seriously Weaken’ the Presidency, ‘Poison’ Ho

Flashback: Democrat Chuck Schumer Warned That Clinton’s Impeachment Would ‘Seriously Weaken’ the Presidency, ‘Poison’ House-Senate Relations

Impeachment was designed "to be used rarely and only in times of national crisis," Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), then a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said on Dec. 10, 1998, as he argued against the impeachment of President Bill Clinton for, as Schumer put it, "sex and lying about sex."

Schumer warned of "profound consequences" for the country and for the presidency if Clinton were to be impeached:


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