Heritage’s von Spakovsky: ‘Absurd’ to Compare Trump Impeachment to Nixon, Clinton

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MacDONALD: "Memo to the media, please stop comparing the Clinton to the accusations against President Trump, Clinton and Nixon impeachment is far worse. The hearsay against President Trump. Let’s bring in my next guest, great to see you. Your reaction to this question."
Von SPAKOVSKY: "I think it is just absurd to try to compare this impeachment to Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton. Richard Nixon covered up a felony violation of the law by his subordinate, actual burglaries, Bill Clinton committed felonies by lying under oath, he committed perjury. You’ll note in this impeachment, there is no allegation of any violation of any law by the president and the abuse of power claim is based on democratic criticism of how he handled diplomatic relationships with Ukraine."
MacDONALD: "The Nixon article of impeachment, article one breaking into DNC headquarters, obstructing an investigation into the bacon, secret payoff of substantial sums of money to influence potential witnesses and those involved in misusing the CIA. I covered the IRS for two decades and testified twice about IRS reform I done a lot of work about political audits, Nixon was charged with using the IRS to go after the tax secret on the tax returns and investigate the enemies. Your reaction to that?"
Von SPAKOVSKY: "Think about how serious and what a threat that was to the public within a president engaging in that behavior. Nothing like that happen here. And in fact to was it who misuse the IRS most recently, the Obama ministration when they went after the conservative organization pray this is the 20th impeachment in American history and I have to say it’s a weakest case for impeachment that’s ever been filed by the house of representatives.
MacDONALD: "Nixon was charged with using the FBI and Secret Service to spy on political enemies, under the Obama ministration the Obama Administration tried to seize the phone records of Associated Press reporter, Fox News reporter, as for the Clinton impeachment he was charged with R committing perjury, lying to a jury to stop the public Biden about his affair with Monica Lewinsky who was seven years older than his daughter Chelsea. Your reaction to that?"
Von SPAKOVSKY: "Concentrate on the Nixon claims that he was using the FBI to spy on his political opponent. We just got an ig report of the FBI launching a spying operation on the Trump campaign and the id says that the FBI misled the FISA court, omitted to tell them about exculpatory information and failed to tell the court about the lack of credibility about their informant which is basically illegal spying."