Reporter Jamie Dupree flags the almost identical headlines at the Washington Post:
Two front pages almost exactly 21 years apart pic.twitter.com/EVLJGRnX2n— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) December 19, 2019
Photographer David Hume Kennerly was at the White House in 1998:
Update. From the Washington Post: [T]he scarlet "I" of impeachment will be permanent:
Yes, he is expected to be acquitted in the Republican-controlled Senate, if and when the House sends the charges over to the other chamber. Sure, 46 percent of people still oppose Trump’s impeachment — statistically similar to the 49 percent who support such action, according to a Washington Post-ABC poll released Tuesday. And of course, he may yet win reelection in 2020.
But for a man consumed with his legacy and legitimacy, the 230-to-197 vote on abuse of power and the 229-to-198 vote on obstruction of Congress are stains that undermine both.
It is impeachment, and it is for life. It’s historical and it’s constitutional. It’s not something Trump can squirm his way out of, or cut a hush-money check to make disappear.
“I do think that the reason the president is taking impeachment particularly hard is because he has absolutely no control over the process, at least not in the way he understands,” Jeff Flake, a former Republican senator from Arizona who was a frequent Trump critic, said in a text message. “Bullying doesn’t work in this situation.”
Trump can spin and obfuscate all he wants — he can dismiss it from the rally stage and decry it from his Twitter feed — but the scarlet “I” of impeachment will be, as Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) said, “permanent.”
“No president wants to be impeached,” Lieu said in his speech on the House floor Wednesday before the final vote. “Whether Donald Trump leaves in one month, one year or five years, this impeachment is permanent, it will follow him for the rest of his life, and it will be included in all future history books. And the people will know why we impeached.” (Read more here.)
Yes, he is expected to be acquitted in the Republican-controlled Senate, if and when the House sends the charges over to the other chamber. Sure, 46 percent of people still oppose Trump’s impeachment — statistically similar to the 49 percent who support such action, according to a Washington Post-ABC poll released Tuesday. And of course, he may yet win reelection in 2020.
But for a man consumed with his legacy and legitimacy, the 230-to-197 vote on abuse of power and the 229-to-198 vote on obstruction of Congress are stains that undermine both.
It is impeachment, and it is for life. It’s historical and it’s constitutional. It’s not something Trump can squirm his way out of, or cut a hush-money check to make disappear.
“I do think that the reason the president is taking impeachment particularly hard is because he has absolutely no control over the process, at least not in the way he understands,” Jeff Flake, a former Republican senator from Arizona who was a frequent Trump critic, said in a text message. “Bullying doesn’t work in this situation.”
Trump can spin and obfuscate all he wants — he can dismiss it from the rally stage and decry it from his Twitter feed — but the scarlet “I” of impeachment will be, as Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) said, “permanent.”
“No president wants to be impeached,” Lieu said in his speech on the House floor Wednesday before the final vote. “Whether Donald Trump leaves in one month, one year or five years, this impeachment is permanent, it will follow him for the rest of his life, and it will be included in all future history books. And the people will know why we impeached.” (Read more here.)
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