Ken Starr 2020 is arguing that the current President shouldn't be impeached because of how divisive for the country the last impeachment fight turned out to be -- an impeachment fight led by Ken Starr, in 1998. | Analysis by CillizzaCNN
Washington The impeachment of President Bill Clinton in the last years of the 1990s was a deeply divisive fight akin to a"domestic" war -- that, in the end, produced no tangible result and put the country through too much.
That's an interesting argument to consider when evaluating whether the ongoing Senate trial into the impeachment of President Donald Trump is worth what it is doing to the country.It's also the argument put forward on Monday by Ken Starr, the former independent counsel in the Clinton impeachment and now one of the lawyers arguing that Trump should be acquitted.
In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe! If Starr's chosen argument on Monday proved anything, it wasn't that Trump shouldn't be allowed to impeached for the good of the country, it was that truth really is stranger than fiction.It also highlighted the fact that Trump handpicked his legal defense team -- or at least part of it -- based not on common-sense considerations but rather on who he thought would defend him well on Fox News.
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