“The View” co-host Ana Navarro claimed Wednesday that if the affair between former President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, as well as his subsequent impeachment, had taken place today, Democrats would actually hold him accountable.
While discussing the affair with her co-hosts, Navarro cited Democrats putting pressure on former Democratic Minnesota Sen. Al Franken, who was accused of sexual misconduct in 2017, to resign from the Senate as evidence that they hold themselves, and the members of their own party, accountable as a result of the #MeToo movement.
She, however, seemingly confused the affair as the reason for Clinton’s impeachment when she claimed that he would be convicted if the impeachment trial were being held today. Clinton was actually impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice stemming from lying under oath to a federal grand jury on questions pertaining to the affair.
“He was impeached but he won. The vote was not there to convict him. I think that if that impeachment had happened … (Read more)
