https://www.yahoo.com/news/ken-starr-trump-abuse-power-territory-090020896.htmlFormer Whitewater independent counsel Ken Starr says President Trump’s attacks on Russiagate special counsel Robert Mueller are “in the territory of abuse of power” and could justify a congressional censure of the president.
“Oh, it’s a very eerie parallel,” Starr said in an interview for the Yahoo News podcast Skullduggery, when asked if he saw similarities between Trump’s relentless attacks on Mueller and the Clinton White House’s attacks on him during the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky investigations.
“I’ve seen reports that the president’s legal team were just taking a play out of the Clinton White House playbook: Attack the prosecutor, demonize the prosecutor, so yes, and I do, heartily and roundly, disapprove of it,” Starr added.While insisting that he hadn’t yet seen evidence that would merit Trump’s impeachment, Starr did say the president’s conduct could be grounds for a formal censure by Congress. “I think we’re moving to that level,” he said.
Starr was interviewed about his new book, “Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation.” Coming out 20 years after the publication of Starr’s controversial report to Congress on the Monica Lewinsky affair, which formed the basis of impeachment charges against Clinton, the book is an aggressive defense hujhgof his own investigation and a harshly critical portrait of the former president and first lady.
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Starr writes that one impetus for him to come forward now, after all these years, was Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the 2016 e******n, an event that he says marked a shift “in the moral compass of the country.”
And Starr uses the opportunity to unload on the Clintons in far more specific and contemptuous language than he has ever used before. He details what he views as their serial evasions and attempts to obstruct his investigations. He is especially critical of the former first lady, depicting her as an imperious and smug witness who repeatedly misled his investigators about Whitewater (an Arkansas real-estate investment that led to allegations of impropriety by Clinton, prompting the original investigation) and about how subpoenaed billing records from a Little Rock law firm mysteriously appeared in the White House residence, an event for which she had no good explanation.