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In 1999, the late-great Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers said this in the impeachment trial of President William Jefferson Clinton:
“We're here today because the President suffered a terrible moral lapse, a marital infidelity; not a breach of the public trust, not a crime against society, the two things Hamilton talked about in Federalist Paper number 65 -- I recommend it to you before you vote -- but a breach of his marriage vows.
It was a breach of his family trust. It is a sex scandal. H.L. Mencken said one time, "When you hear somebody say, 'This is not about money' -- it's about money. And when you hear somebody say, ‘This is not about sex’…it's about sex.”
Bill Clinton offered the best skillset my party has to offer America: empathy for working families; analytical brilliance; and a talent for executing data-driven policy through the complex machinery of constitutional government. As far as modern Democratic politicians go, in my view, Bill is the GOAT. [ [link removed] ]
But he also fucked around. A lot. He lied with reckless abandon, perjuring himself many times, and obstructing justice seemingly in his sleep. He cheated on his wife repeatedly and was credibly accused of rape by multiple women going back to his days as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, as Attorney General of Arkansas, and then as Governor. He flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet, which, of course is not a crime. But it sure doesn’t look great.
So knowing what I know, if he was on my ballot this November, would I vote for Bill Clinton? Absolutely, enthusiastically — and without hesitation.
When I vote for politicians, I’m not electing them to a sainthood. I don’t know what they do in their private lives, and I don’t want to know. I just assume it’s not pretty.
I am hiring them to do a job: to run public life. And at that job, speaking as a longtime student of politics, Bill is one of the best I have seen.
You may or may not think Donald is one of the best you have seen. I certainly think he isn’t impressive in office. But half the country does. And that’s the point: if you would give a pass to Bill — and I would — then you must, in fairness, give a pass to Donald. So I do. Otherwise, I would be a braindead partisan hack.
That’s why when I heard the same people who helped elect Bill Clinton wax poetic yesterday about how presidents must be held to a high moral standard yada yada yada, I didn’t believe them.
Democrats want you to believe this conviction is about democracy, not sex. Just as Republicans in ‘99 wanted you to believe the Lewinsky scandal was about the rule of law, not sex. But an objective onlooker can see that both cases are obviously about sex. These cases were brought to humiliate presidents on the national stage. In both cases, “independent” prosecutors succeeded in doing just that.
Sex and politics — that’s all this case was ever about.
And when it comes to the sex lives of our politicians, Democrat or Republican, my gut feeling remains the same:
I don’t care.
Donald Trump has almost certainly committed crimes against democracy of which a jury should convict him beyond a reasonable doubt.
This was not one of them.

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