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Trump defence counsel Ken Starr says impeachment is ‘hell’
WASHINGTON — Impeachment, he said, “is hell.” A measure of “last resort.” A bad habit to be kicked.
With that, Ken Starr, the man whose years-long probe led to the impeachment of the 42nd president, stood before senators on Monday and delivered a nearly hour-long argument against the ouster of the 45th.
Starr, with a nod to his own role in the impeachment of Bill Clinton and lofty talk about “America’s constitutional DNA,” argued that it’s time to bring an end to “the age of impeachment.”
Starr spoke to the senators in a modulated tone, flicking at the Pentagon Papers, Richard Nixon’s crimes, the Iran-Contra scandal and, yes, the Clinton impeachment in a presentation that had echoes of a preacher extolling the virtues of moderation and expressing anguish that impeachment has become weaponized.