Even more surprising were the similarities between his impeachment and Trump’s. Being a staunch Democrat, I was surprised to find that I agreed with the charges brought against Clinton. I actually thought he had been impeached for having an affair with Monica Lewinsky. I knew that he was impeached but not removed from office, and I knew that he did, in fact, have relations with “that woman,” but that was about it.
Being born in 2000, my knowledge of Bill Clinton’s impeachment was lackluster. It wasn’t until Trump’s impeachment that I started to look into Clinton’s. Even without the phone call, his subterfuge was an offence worthy of impeachment and removal from office. His willful efforts to impede a process granted to Congress by our Constitution served as yet another example of him transforming the presidency into a position that benefits him rather than the people he was elected to represent. In addition to the phone call with Zalensky, I was also disgusted at Trump’s attempt to thwart the judicial process by directing his administration to not comply with the impeachment inquiry. I was eager for Trump to be impeached, as I strongly believed-and still do-that someone who would corrupt the democratic process should be brought to justice, no matter how powerful they may be. I spent the night before my American Government final watching the impeachment of Donald Trump from the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library (H-L) basement, an impeachment that I had anticipated since the transcript of his phone call with Ukrainian President Zalensky had been released a few months earlier.