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Lamar Alexander: “If this shallow, hurried and wholly partisan impeachment were to succeed, it would rip the country apart, pouring…”

On the recordJanuary 29, 2018
If this shallow, hurried and wholly partisan impeachment were to succeed, it would rip the country apart, pouring gasoline on the fire of cultural divisions that already exist. It would create the weapon of perpetual impeachment to be used against future presidents whenever the House of Representatives is of a different political party.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Lamar Alexander warns about the consequences of a partisan impeachment process.

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