Monica Lewinsky Has Something To Say About Trump's Impeachment

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00:01Former President Donald Trump is the first president to have ever been impeached twice.

00:06The second impeachment came exactly one week after violent riots broke out at the U.S.

00:11Capitol building on January 6, 2021, as Congress was certifying the 2020 election results.

00:18Trump was charged with incitement of insurrection after the numerous remarks he made regarding

00:23his opposition to the election results seemed to fuel the mob attack, according to The New

00:27York Times. The House, controlled by Democrats, passed and delivered the article of impeachment

00:33to the Senate on January 25, 2021, per CNN. Despite gaining more vocal support for impeachment

00:40from Americans now than during Trump's first impeachment, the Senate is likely not going

00:45to find him guilty on the charges associated with the Capitol Hill uprising, per The New

00:50York Times. Furthermore, Senate Republicans attempted to get the given impeachment charge

00:55thrown out by having it deemed unconstitutional. Many Americans, including celebrities, have

01:01taken to the internet to air out their grievances about the potential trial.

01:05One woman who stands out on the controversial side of American history, former White House

01:10intern Monica Lewinsky, also decided to chime in on the discussion. Following reports that

01:15the Senate likely will not gain enough votes to convict former President Donald Trump for

01:20incitement of insurrection, Monica Lewinsky took to Twitter to show her dissatisfaction.

01:25Accusing Republicans of being hypocritical, she slammed,

01:28My new idea. All of the senators need to take lie detector tests that they would vote the

01:33same on impeachment if it were a Democrat that incited the Capitol insurrection. I know, tricky

01:39for the psychopaths among them.

01:41Many followers agreed with her sentiment. One user said,

01:45Acknowledgement of their bias in order to trigger a dishonest lie response would involve

01:49a level of self-awareness that they simply lack. Another person replied that they would

01:54love to see that happen. On the other hand, some followers urged Lewinsky to forget about

01:59Trump and focus on positive, uplifting topics moving forward. Another argued that Democrats

02:05should be given the same sort of test to see if they would vote against a Democratic president

02:09during an impeachment trial. If Trump is found guilty of the charges, he would lose a list

02:14of benefits that former U.S. presidents are guaranteed via the 1958 Former Presidents Act,

02:20such as his pension, health insurance, a travel allowance, and more.

02:25Trump will also face a separate vote to determine whether or not he can run for federal office

02:29again in the future.

02:31Monica Lewinsky's tweet regarding Donald Trump's potential trial by the Senate is not the first

02:36time she has commented about her disapproval of the Trump administration. In September 2020,

02:41she tweeted,

02:42"'Just realized I am more scared of our government now than I was in 1998, and that's saying

02:47a lot. A lot.'"

02:50In 1998, Lewinsky found herself thrust into the spotlight of a political scandal after she

02:55and President Bill Clinton were accused of having an affair. Clinton eventually admitted

03:00to the affair.

03:01The House of Representatives impeached Clinton with perjury and obstruction of justice charges,

03:06but the Senate acquitted him. The Independent hypothesized that Lewinsky's September tweet may

03:11have been rooted in her disappointment with Trump's decision to replace late Supreme Court Justice

03:16Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a more conservative justice immediately following her death. Lewinsky

03:21had previously tweeted about the situation, saying she would love to know what the other

03:25Supreme Court justices would have done with Ginsburg's dying wish, which was to not be

03:30replaced until a new president is installed. And if their actions would change if the president

03:35in office was of a different political party, Trump is seemingly unbothered by the rallying

03:40for his impeachment. Since leaving the Oval Office, he has been spotted playing golf at

03:44his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, as reported by Newsweek. He also created the Office of the

03:50Former President, which will be responsible for managing President Trump's correspondence, public

03:55statements, appearances, and official activities to advance the interests of the United States,

04:01and to carry on the agenda of the Trump administration, per CBS News.

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