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I was a DC correspondent during the Clinton impeachment. This is how it’s different with Trump

As well as the all-consuming public interest and the sense that Clinton’s presidency really was endangered, the president’s response to the investigation was quite different from Trump’s has been

Mary Dejevsky
Thursday 19 December 2019 21:52 GMT
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Trump says fighter pilots are better looking than Tom Cruise as House votes to impeach him

This time, the American public seems less interested. Worse, what is widely seen by his supporters as a Democrat vendetta could rebound in next year’s election

As I follow the impeachment of the 45th president of the United States from the European side of the Atlantic, it is hard not to feel like blurting out “here we go again”.

Not only has Donald Trump become the third US president to be impeached, the second in recent times, but the vote came 21 years minus one day since Bill Clinton was impeached for what will be forever known as the Monica Lewinsky affair.

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