Fox News anchor Bret Baier highlighted the hyperpartisan divide in the support for President Trump’s impeachment.
In the lead up to the House vote on impeachment, Baier explained that Trump’s impeachment is unique to the other two presidents that were impeached in that Presidents Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were impeached with support from both parties.
“This is the only partisan, pure partisan, impeachment vote in the history of the United States in what this is setting up to be. The only bipartisan elements are Democrats who may vote against it,” Baier noted.
He added, “Remember that President Clinton, 21 years ago tomorrow, when he was impeached by the House, was contrite. He was sorry for what happened, he said. And the Democrats who supported him acknowledged that he was doing something wrong. He did something wrong, lying under oath about his affair. And that situation was that the people who supported him acknowledged wrongdoing.”
Baier explained that Johnson “flaunted the impeachment” because he saw it as an injustice and that he was being set up by Congress.
“This is different,” Baier said. He went on to explain that the partisan divide will likely continue when the impeachment vote is passed onto the Senate following Wednesday’s vote in the House.
As Baier noted, no Republicans have signaled that they will vote for impeachment. Some Democrats, including Reps. Collin Peterson of Minnesota and Jared Golden of Maine, have signaled that they will vote against at least one of the articles of impeachment.
