In 1999, President Clinton survived impeachment, publicly apologized, and saw his popularity rise as Americans largely decided he should not be removed for lying about an affair with a White House intern. That consensus doesn’t exist today.”No president before Trump has withstood an impeachment trial and then gone on to seek reelection. The most zealous partisans on each side have always threatened impeachment but seldom muster the political power to force the grueling process. During the trial, Trump’s defense team displayed video clips of partisan Democrats proposing Trump’s impeachment soon after he was elected. Voters turned him out in 1976, sending Jimmy Carter, a Democrat who campaigned as an outsider, to the White House.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 05, 2020 18:56 UTC