{"id":22475,"date":"2017-06-15T17:07:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T23:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=22475"},"modified":"2021-05-20T19:40:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T01:40:52","slug":"22475","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/22475\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP ex-lawmaker to Paul Ryan: GOP would impeach Trump if he was a Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 140%; font-weight: 500;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14044\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rfi-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"222\" data-wp-pid=\"14044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rfi-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rfi-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rfi-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-1-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rfi-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-1-800x517.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/>Rawstory<\/b> &#8211;\u00a0A former GOP congressman who voted to impeach former President Bill Clinton called out House Speaker Paul Ryan as a hypocrite.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan argued Thursday that congressional Republicans would not be calling for the impeachment of a Democratic president accused of the same activity as President Donald Trump \u2014 but former representative Bob Inglis dismissed those claims as nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know this isn\u2019t true,\u201d Inglis tweeted to Ryan. \u201cYou know that you would be inquiring into impeachment if this were a D.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerRyan\">@SpeakerRyan<\/a> you know this isn&#8217;t true. You know that you would be inquiring into impeachment if this were a D. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mBFn4aCGi4\">https:\/\/t.co\/mBFn4aCGi4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob Inglis (@bobinglis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bobinglis\/status\/873172427739713536\">June 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 140%; font-weight: 500;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2017\/06\/gop-ex-lawmaker-calls-out-paul-ryan-you-know-republicans-would-impeach-trump-if-he-was-a-democrat\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Whisper_Impeach_Ad-2.png\" alt=\"How to impeach a president\" width=\"489\" height=\"326\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 140%; font-weight: 500;\">Citizen led Trump impeachment method.<br \/>\nRules of the House of Representatives stipulate citizens can initiate it. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rawstory &#8211;\u00a0A former GOP congressman who voted to impeach former President Bill Clinton called out House Speaker Paul Ryan as a hypocrite. Ryan argued Thursday that congressional Republicans would not be calling for the impeachment of a Democratic president accused of the same activity as President Donald Trump \u2014 but former representative Bob Inglis dismissed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[76,123,126,106,105,77],"class_list":["post-22475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impeachment-news","category-republicans-for-impeachment","tag-impeach","tag-impeachtrump","tag-potus","tag-resist","tag-theresistance","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GOP ex-lawmaker to Paul Ryan: GOP would impeach Trump if he was a Democrat &#8226; 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