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High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton
In this New York Times bestseller, Coulter mercilessly examines the abuses and excesses of Bill Clinton point by point. She also shreds every conceivable defense the Clintons to bits as she probes the major Clinton scandals, including Monica Lewinsky, Filegate, the China connection, the travel office snafu, and the fundraising fiascos.
Coulter combs through the evidence to answer all the questions that kept the Clinton administration embroiled in scandal - the likes of which our nation had never seen. High Crimes and Misdemeanors reveals:
WHY the Monica Lewinsky affair would ultimately cause the entire Clinton defense scheme to unravel.
HOW Bill Clinton committed impeachable offense that are both criminal and non-criminal (take your pick).
WHY, despite popular belief, impeachment DOES NOT require a criminal offense.
HOW the Clinton White House got hold of sensitive FBI files - and how it may have used them too intimidate enemies.
WHAT Hilary Clinton did to destroy the careers of nonpolitical, completely innocent White House employees.
WHY Clinton crony Webb Hubbell abruptly stopped cooperating with Ken Starr after key White House pals got to him.
WHO got a top Clinton administration job and most likely used it to funnel classified data to people close to the Chinese Communists.
In this fearless and unapologetic book, you'll get a shocking view of the Clinton White House, where an endless parade of lowlifes brought lobbying opportunities to a president who never met a campaign gift he didn't like - even if it put US security at risk.
You'll venture deep iinside the Clinton machine to discover how witnesses are muzzled, how opponents are intimidated, how the press is led about, evidence concealed, the FBI misued, jobs are dispensed, the Clinton Justice Department corrupted....and why the Monica Lewinsky affair infamously follow Clinton for the rest of his life.
From the best selling author of ADIOS AMERICA.
Coulter combs through the evidence to answer all the questions that kept the Clinton administration embroiled in scandal - the likes of which our nation had never seen. High Crimes and Misdemeanors reveals:
WHY the Monica Lewinsky affair would ultimately cause the entire Clinton defense scheme to unravel.
HOW Bill Clinton committed impeachable offense that are both criminal and non-criminal (take your pick).
WHY, despite popular belief, impeachment DOES NOT require a criminal offense.
HOW the Clinton White House got hold of sensitive FBI files - and how it may have used them too intimidate enemies.
WHAT Hilary Clinton did to destroy the careers of nonpolitical, completely innocent White House employees.
WHY Clinton crony Webb Hubbell abruptly stopped cooperating with Ken Starr after key White House pals got to him.
WHO got a top Clinton administration job and most likely used it to funnel classified data to people close to the Chinese Communists.
In this fearless and unapologetic book, you'll get a shocking view of the Clinton White House, where an endless parade of lowlifes brought lobbying opportunities to a president who never met a campaign gift he didn't like - even if it put US security at risk.
You'll venture deep iinside the Clinton machine to discover how witnesses are muzzled, how opponents are intimidated, how the press is led about, evidence concealed, the FBI misued, jobs are dispensed, the Clinton Justice Department corrupted....and why the Monica Lewinsky affair infamously follow Clinton for the rest of his life.
From the best selling author of ADIOS AMERICA.
358 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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Ann Coulter
30 books449 followersAnn Hart Coulter is an American conservative media pundit, author, syndicated columnist, and lawyer. She became known as a media pundit in the late 1990s, appearing in print and on cable news as an outspoken critic of the Clinton administration. Her first book concerned the impeachment of Bill Clinton and sprang from her experience writing legal briefs for Paula Jones's attorneys, as well as columns she wrote about the cases. Coulter's syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate appears in newspapers and is featured on conservative websites. Coulter has also written 13 books.
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July 31, 2007
Probably the worst writer I've ever read. Poor use of language, facile reasoning. Dreck. Pure and simple.
December 20, 2013
Does a great job of explaining Clinton's numerous scandals in a straight forward, cut-to-the-chase manner. Clinton was president back before I got interested in politics, so there were plenty of misdeeds here I was not previously aware of. My estimation of Clinton, never high to begin with, has plummeted off a cliff after reading this book. As part of her argument that Clinton should've been impeached, Coulter explores what it was exactly that got Nixon in such hot water. Turns out that Nixon's actions leading up to his forced resignation were just an average Tuesday for the Clinton administration (which Clinton claimed would be the "most ethical" in history [insert laughter here]).
March 23, 2020
This is probably the harshest critic ever written on the Clintons, and Bill to be more precise. I wonder what damage it did then considering it was a best-seller. Prior to this, I had read Hillary's Scheme: Inside the Next Clinton's Ruthless Agenda to Take the White House, which basically is a drop in the ocean as far as the Clintons are concerned. Coulter, who I did find, stylistically, to be overly technical, and rightfully so because most books of this manner only scratch the surface without getting deeper into the nitty-gritty of the whats, whos, whens and hows, delves into the bedsheets of Bill Clinton's presidency and unearths dirt and filth that lies beneath. And in the process, lays a perfect case for the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
The only justice my review can do to Bill Clinton perhaps is to give him a chance to explain himself:
The only justice my review can do to Bill Clinton perhaps is to give him a chance to explain himself:
"I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman - Miss Lewinsky."
October 6, 2021
Deconstruction has escaped from the twilight zone of the Ivy League and taken hold of our political life. Truth is political. Law is political. The law is a hook that you use, but, really, it’s all about your feelings. Motives are the only things that exist, the only things that can be discussed.
This is a long one with lots of hyperlinks. Clearly I’m enjoying “working” from home.
It’s official. Ann has the Midas touch of comedy gold. Only she can go on Fox News and devolve a discussion about cigarette bans to one about gay bathhouses. Only Ann has the audacity to tell off Sinatra’s “ugliest broad on television” Jewish Barbara Walters for reading aloud sections out of one of Ann’s books about “venereal-disease-ridden” JFK as though she’s reciting a page from Mein Kampf . Even articles about her never fail to make me snort.
At this point, Ann, Mortimer J. Adler, and NBA YoungBoy are running neck and neck to the top of my bias list.
While advising on the Paula Jones sexual assault case in which Jones alleged Clinton dropped his pants and told her to “kiss it” after summoning her to his hotel room, Ann became more and more aware of the many instances of impeachable offenses committed by the Clinton administration. Ann eventually worked as an MSNBC correspondent (a position which she would be fired from years later for telling a paralyzed Vietnam vet, “No wonder you guys lost”) providing opinions about Clinton fiascos. Later, she took six months off from her work as a litigator to write what would be her first in a line of New York Times bestsellers.
Upon viewing the original book cover prominently featuring William’s wedding band, one can see that High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton has no qualms with hitting below the belt. (What is below Bill’s belt? According to Monica Lewinsky, ”think of a thumb”.) Ann’s debut doesn’t include her trademark brashness that would paint her later polemics, but her disdain for Bill and Hill is clear.
According to Ann, adding the word “high” to “crimes and misdemeanors” creates a term that is not criminal law babble but one in which the Framers implicitly knew as the failings of a virtuous leader and, thus, impeachable offenses.
If the President himself commits actions that question his virtue, then the American people will lose what little respect towards the government they previously had. And Bill and Hill tick all the possible boxes for the different sorts of “high crimes and misdemeanors” that can be ticked.
Fans of Sherlock Holmes and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, like myself, will appreciate the rundown Clinton-era scandals. It reads like catty, jurisprudent Velma Dinkley rattling off a rapid-fire list of who’s, what’s, when’s, where’s, why’s, and how’s after unmasking the costume-wearer, except we already know whodunnit. Ann covers
The Kathleen Willey assault
The Paula Jones proposition
The Monica Lewinsky affair
The Travel Office controversy
Document coverup after Vince Foster’s suicide
The Whitewater scandal
The FBI Files controversy
Selling coffee dates and overnight White House stays
Wampumgate
Campaign funding for American security exchange with China
Barring the tendentiousness of high crimes and misdemeanors performed by the former President, Bill committed an actual crime anyway which is perjury when deposed about his dalliance with Monica during the Jones investigation. Well, ”it depends on what the meaning of the word is is.” When interviewed on Firing Line, Ann responds to Buckley that in order for civilization to work, in order for capitalism to work, one must be able to rely on a person’s word, and if Congress doesn’t do its constitutional duty to impeach Bill for perjury, then the 200-year run of the American experiment will come to an end. A republic cannot stand if the people have no common language and the verb to be is deemed relativistic. In the end, Bill’s lies, lies, and more lies do get him impeached by the House, but he’s acquitted by the Senate, making Ann’s odds of achieving a flourishing United States in the future a coin toss.
Of all the scandals, the most bizarre and well-known is obviously the Lewinsky debacle. Linda Tripp, Monica’s co-worker at the Pentagon over two decades her senior, becomes Monica’s sounding board to vent to after blowing spit bubbles on Bill’s third thumb in the Oval Office while he’s on the phone discussing international policy with senators -- he doesn’t even know Monica’s name the first couple encounters. Ann believes that conservative women have more orgasisms, and she’s probably right since it’s doubtful that Monica was getting any while earning her “presidential kneepads” under a blue White House. Though Monica does keep her cumstained blue dress that would later serve as evidence.
Linda decides to secretly record her conversations with Monicafor a book deal to expose the wrongdoings of the President. After going public with the recorded tapes and appearing on television, Linda realizes how ugly she is and decides to get plastic surgery… twice!--the first for facial restructuring and the second to fix the botched first--all while owing $1 million in legal fees.
It’s amazing that the Clintons came out of these scandals relatively unscathed. Bill being a creepy horndog (Ann thinks it’s due to his latent homosexuality and its accompanied narcissism; a broken Freud is right twice a day, I suppose) has garnered no traction by liberal feminists, surprise, surprise. Luckily he missed the whole #MeToo cancellation movement, with James Patterson saying the #MeToo movement should’ve happened a long time ago. Not if you want to sell copies of The President is Missing it shouldn’t have. Ann is baffled at the liberal woman’s sexual attraction to Bill, comparing him to real-life Chuckie Newt Gingrich. And after the Lewinsky scandal catches fire, Bill is christened the first black President. No wonder he and O-Bambi don’t get along.
Monica now aptly spends her time giving talks about bullying, shaming, and reputation tarnishing. She even tries her hand at totally not fake media stunts, like ending an interview about her relationship with Bill early when asked a question about her relationship with Bill in an effort to appear like a strong, take-charge woman as though society collectively got amnesia about the sole reason she’s had any type of media coverage to begin with.
I’m reminded of a scene in the Sopranos when Edie Falco’s character and the other mob wives lament their husbands and their “goomahs” and applaud Hill’s ability to “set up her own lil thing” with the embarrassment having Bill’s sexcapades broadcasted primetime for households everywhere to see. She managed to become a New York senator and later Secretary of State somehow just with the Clinton name. During her own first go on the Presidential circuit, Hill pays homage to the Sopranos with her own ad, Bill looking more out of it than ever. She couldn’t hold a candle to, who Ann calls the Dem’s trophy wife, Obama, but the party owed her the nomination the second time around against Trump. After the dreaded Access Hollywood conversation where Trump makes the bold claim that women like to sleep with rich men, the libfems were out in full force standing “with Her.” Knowing the Access Hollywood tapes would be discussed during the Presidential debates, the night before, Trump holds a surprise press conference, and guess who’s on the panel? Paula Jones, Kathleen Wiley, Juanita Broaddrick (who claims Bill raped her), and Kathy Shelton (who was raped at 12 years old and whose rapist Hill defended; Hill apparently laughed about the case in an audio recording at the time). Glorious.
In a stroke of serendipity, it looks like the FX show American Crime Story is doing a season on the Bill Clinton impeachment at the moment, with Edie Falco playing Hill Clinton. And which character gets the mic drop “impeachment” line in the show’s trailer? Why none other than Ann Coulter. Life will always be stranger than fiction.
This is a long one with lots of hyperlinks. Clearly I’m enjoying “working” from home.
It’s official. Ann has the Midas touch of comedy gold. Only she can go on Fox News and devolve a discussion about cigarette bans to one about gay bathhouses. Only Ann has the audacity to tell off Sinatra’s “ugliest broad on television” Jewish Barbara Walters for reading aloud sections out of one of Ann’s books about “venereal-disease-ridden” JFK as though she’s reciting a page from Mein Kampf . Even articles about her never fail to make me snort.
Ann’s list of exes includes Spin magazine founder Bob Guccione Jr., whom she dated for six months. A 2005 TIME article quoted an eyewitness who saw Ann and Bob making out in a stairwell. “I make out in public less often now that I’m publicly recognizable,” Ann told the magazine.
At this point, Ann, Mortimer J. Adler, and NBA YoungBoy are running neck and neck to the top of my bias list.
While advising on the Paula Jones sexual assault case in which Jones alleged Clinton dropped his pants and told her to “kiss it” after summoning her to his hotel room, Ann became more and more aware of the many instances of impeachable offenses committed by the Clinton administration. Ann eventually worked as an MSNBC correspondent (a position which she would be fired from years later for telling a paralyzed Vietnam vet, “No wonder you guys lost”) providing opinions about Clinton fiascos. Later, she took six months off from her work as a litigator to write what would be her first in a line of New York Times bestsellers.
Upon viewing the original book cover prominently featuring William’s wedding band, one can see that High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton has no qualms with hitting below the belt. (What is below Bill’s belt? According to Monica Lewinsky, ”think of a thumb”.) Ann’s debut doesn’t include her trademark brashness that would paint her later polemics, but her disdain for Bill and Hill is clear.
If we can’t trust him with Girl Scout troops visiting the Oval Office, he’s not fit for the office. (p. 257)
According to Ann, adding the word “high” to “crimes and misdemeanors” creates a term that is not criminal law babble but one in which the Framers implicitly knew as the failings of a virtuous leader and, thus, impeachable offenses.
According to historical precedent, impeachable misbehavior “means (a) [misconduct] in the execution of office, or (b) scandalous behavior in his private capacity.” (p. 5, emphasis hers)
If the President himself commits actions that question his virtue, then the American people will lose what little respect towards the government they previously had. And Bill and Hill tick all the possible boxes for the different sorts of “high crimes and misdemeanors” that can be ticked.
Fans of Sherlock Holmes and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, like myself, will appreciate the rundown Clinton-era scandals. It reads like catty, jurisprudent Velma Dinkley rattling off a rapid-fire list of who’s, what’s, when’s, where’s, why’s, and how’s after unmasking the costume-wearer, except we already know whodunnit. Ann covers
The Kathleen Willey assault
The Paula Jones proposition
The Monica Lewinsky affair
The Travel Office controversy
Document coverup after Vince Foster’s suicide
The Whitewater scandal
The FBI Files controversy
Selling coffee dates and overnight White House stays
Wampumgate
Campaign funding for American security exchange with China
Barring the tendentiousness of high crimes and misdemeanors performed by the former President, Bill committed an actual crime anyway which is perjury when deposed about his dalliance with Monica during the Jones investigation. Well, ”it depends on what the meaning of the word is is.” When interviewed on Firing Line, Ann responds to Buckley that in order for civilization to work, in order for capitalism to work, one must be able to rely on a person’s word, and if Congress doesn’t do its constitutional duty to impeach Bill for perjury, then the 200-year run of the American experiment will come to an end. A republic cannot stand if the people have no common language and the verb to be is deemed relativistic. In the end, Bill’s lies, lies, and more lies do get him impeached by the House, but he’s acquitted by the Senate, making Ann’s odds of achieving a flourishing United States in the future a coin toss.
Of all the scandals, the most bizarre and well-known is obviously the Lewinsky debacle. Linda Tripp, Monica’s co-worker at the Pentagon over two decades her senior, becomes Monica’s sounding board to vent to after blowing spit bubbles on Bill’s third thumb in the Oval Office while he’s on the phone discussing international policy with senators -- he doesn’t even know Monica’s name the first couple encounters. Ann believes that conservative women have more orgasisms, and she’s probably right since it’s doubtful that Monica was getting any while earning her “presidential kneepads” under a blue White House. Though Monica does keep her cumstained blue dress that would later serve as evidence.
Linda decides to secretly record her conversations with Monica
It’s amazing that the Clintons came out of these scandals relatively unscathed. Bill being a creepy horndog (Ann thinks it’s due to his latent homosexuality and its accompanied narcissism; a broken Freud is right twice a day, I suppose) has garnered no traction by liberal feminists, surprise, surprise. Luckily he missed the whole #MeToo cancellation movement, with James Patterson saying the #MeToo movement should’ve happened a long time ago. Not if you want to sell copies of The President is Missing it shouldn’t have. Ann is baffled at the liberal woman’s sexual attraction to Bill, comparing him to real-life Chuckie Newt Gingrich. And after the Lewinsky scandal catches fire, Bill is christened the first black President. No wonder he and O-Bambi don’t get along.
Monica now aptly spends her time giving talks about bullying, shaming, and reputation tarnishing. She even tries her hand at totally not fake media stunts, like ending an interview about her relationship with Bill early when asked a question about her relationship with Bill in an effort to appear like a strong, take-charge woman as though society collectively got amnesia about the sole reason she’s had any type of media coverage to begin with.
I’m reminded of a scene in the Sopranos when Edie Falco’s character and the other mob wives lament their husbands and their “goomahs” and applaud Hill’s ability to “set up her own lil thing” with the embarrassment having Bill’s sexcapades broadcasted primetime for households everywhere to see. She managed to become a New York senator and later Secretary of State somehow just with the Clinton name. During her own first go on the Presidential circuit, Hill pays homage to the Sopranos with her own ad, Bill looking more out of it than ever. She couldn’t hold a candle to, who Ann calls the Dem’s trophy wife, Obama, but the party owed her the nomination the second time around against Trump. After the dreaded Access Hollywood conversation where Trump makes the bold claim that women like to sleep with rich men, the libfems were out in full force standing “with Her.” Knowing the Access Hollywood tapes would be discussed during the Presidential debates, the night before, Trump holds a surprise press conference, and guess who’s on the panel? Paula Jones, Kathleen Wiley, Juanita Broaddrick (who claims Bill raped her), and Kathy Shelton (who was raped at 12 years old and whose rapist Hill defended; Hill apparently laughed about the case in an audio recording at the time). Glorious.
In a stroke of serendipity, it looks like the FX show American Crime Story is doing a season on the Bill Clinton impeachment at the moment, with Edie Falco playing Hill Clinton. And which character gets the mic drop “impeachment” line in the show’s trailer? Why none other than Ann Coulter. Life will always be stranger than fiction.
November 27, 2022
Many years ago before I knew who Ann Coulter was I saw this book in the library so I gave it a try. Before I had the internet this seemed to be a good way to research a subject and understand the nuts and bolts of the situation. However, it became crystal Clear very quickly this was a one-sided very opinionated hit piece. Before I even knew who Ann Coulter was I learned she was not someone to be trusted for her opinion. I didn't finish the book and if somebody were to ask me about it now I would tell them, don't even bother starting it.
August 24, 2013
Published in the days before a svelte cocktail dress, a tough-as-nails smirk and a punchy-yet-easily-digestible title were the sufficient conditions to propel Miss Coulter into the New York Times' Bestseller List, High Crimes and Misdemeanors is a well-researched case against a man who has for years furnished the impression that he has no credible naysayers.
The manufactured outrage and low sarcasm which passes for wit in the author's later works is conspicuously absent here. Quite to the contrary, you can empathize with the author's genuine passion for the rule of law, a tripartite system of checks and balances, and the necessity of a well-researched -and at times legalistic- analysis of one of the world's most powerful figures.
If by the end of the book you are not convinced of the former president's moral destitution, then it can at least be said that, for a time, Ann Coulter's opinion on an issue was one of the most sober and coherent in the field.
The manufactured outrage and low sarcasm which passes for wit in the author's later works is conspicuously absent here. Quite to the contrary, you can empathize with the author's genuine passion for the rule of law, a tripartite system of checks and balances, and the necessity of a well-researched -and at times legalistic- analysis of one of the world's most powerful figures.
If by the end of the book you are not convinced of the former president's moral destitution, then it can at least be said that, for a time, Ann Coulter's opinion on an issue was one of the most sober and coherent in the field.
October 10, 2020
Don't let this "dated" book keep you from reading it. The subject matter, in a larger context, is still very relevant in our modern political climate. What I especially enjoyed about the book were the comparisons made among Clinton, Nixon, and Johnson. Of course both Clinton and Johnson were impeached, while Nixon probably would have been impeached and actually removed had he stayed in office. The grounds for impeaching Clinton are given greater detail since he is the subject matter of the book, but enough information is given concerning Nixon and Johnson to sufficiently compare the three presidents. My only wish would have been to read this book while it was still considered a current event. I was in my last four months of high school when this man was elected. Please read this book.
September 16, 2008
Learned what I never learned from the media about the Clinton Administration.
July 16, 2024
COULTER'S FIRST BOOK - A PLEA FOR IMPEACHMENT
Ann Hart Coulter (born 1961) is of course the popular conservative social and political commentator, author, and syndicated columnist. This 1998 book was her first, however, and was written before she became nationally famous; it was written even before President Clinton was formally impeached in December 1998 (before being acquitted in February 1999).
She wrote in the first chapter, "If President Clinton can do what he has done and not face impeachment, we will have set an all-new, heretofore unimagined---unimaginable---low-water mark for elected officials... if Congress doesn't have the will to throw him out, Clinton will have established a new standard for the entire country. The new standard will be a total absence of standards... The Founding Fathers said the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. This book isn't even asking for vigilance. It's just asking people to give a d___. If Americans don't care about this, then they are expecting liberty without paying any price at all." (Pg. 21-22)
After Clinton was accused by Paula Jones of sexual harassment (Clinton ultimately settled out of court with her), "Reporters had been crawling all over Little Rock... looking for arcana on the new president. (They were all over Atlanta after Jimmy Carter became president, too, but the Georgia state troopers didn't have such colorful stories to tell.)" (Pg. 28) Reflecting on one of the letters of Kathleen Willey (who also alleged harassment by Clinton) to Clinton, Coulter observes, "Willey is either a woman of incredible cheek, or she had something on the president." (Pg. 87)
She states, "No one has ever been caught like Clinton, in this tawdry combination of sexual perversion, witness tampering, and perjury. The most frothing-at-the-mouth Nixon haters never thought Nixon had committed perjury... This is the most complete ignominy in American history." (Pg. 115)
Dealing with Whitewater, she notes pertinently, "The 'failed land deal' that Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr has supposedly spent $40 million investigating has already led to the conviction or plea agreements of fourteen people, including the Clintons' partners in Whitewater... and the former sitting governor of Arkansas... who succeeded Bill Clinton." (Pg. 167-168)
She concludes on the note, "A president whose own behavior in the Oval Office ... and who conspires to break laws that hide that behavior... surely warrants... 'removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States." (Pg. 314)
Coulter's impassioned plea will still be of great interest to anyone (mostly conservatives, but perhaps others as well) wanting to research the Clinton impeachment.
Ann Hart Coulter (born 1961) is of course the popular conservative social and political commentator, author, and syndicated columnist. This 1998 book was her first, however, and was written before she became nationally famous; it was written even before President Clinton was formally impeached in December 1998 (before being acquitted in February 1999).
She wrote in the first chapter, "If President Clinton can do what he has done and not face impeachment, we will have set an all-new, heretofore unimagined---unimaginable---low-water mark for elected officials... if Congress doesn't have the will to throw him out, Clinton will have established a new standard for the entire country. The new standard will be a total absence of standards... The Founding Fathers said the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. This book isn't even asking for vigilance. It's just asking people to give a d___. If Americans don't care about this, then they are expecting liberty without paying any price at all." (Pg. 21-22)
After Clinton was accused by Paula Jones of sexual harassment (Clinton ultimately settled out of court with her), "Reporters had been crawling all over Little Rock... looking for arcana on the new president. (They were all over Atlanta after Jimmy Carter became president, too, but the Georgia state troopers didn't have such colorful stories to tell.)" (Pg. 28) Reflecting on one of the letters of Kathleen Willey (who also alleged harassment by Clinton) to Clinton, Coulter observes, "Willey is either a woman of incredible cheek, or she had something on the president." (Pg. 87)
She states, "No one has ever been caught like Clinton, in this tawdry combination of sexual perversion, witness tampering, and perjury. The most frothing-at-the-mouth Nixon haters never thought Nixon had committed perjury... This is the most complete ignominy in American history." (Pg. 115)
Dealing with Whitewater, she notes pertinently, "The 'failed land deal' that Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr has supposedly spent $40 million investigating has already led to the conviction or plea agreements of fourteen people, including the Clintons' partners in Whitewater... and the former sitting governor of Arkansas... who succeeded Bill Clinton." (Pg. 167-168)
She concludes on the note, "A president whose own behavior in the Oval Office ... and who conspires to break laws that hide that behavior... surely warrants... 'removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States." (Pg. 314)
Coulter's impassioned plea will still be of great interest to anyone (mostly conservatives, but perhaps others as well) wanting to research the Clinton impeachment.
October 12, 2024
High Crimes and Misdemeanor’ – The Case Against Bill Clinton – by Ann Coulter - Completed 10/12/2024
To my wife, J.E.M.; children, B.J.M.; A.N.C.; T.L.L. and their spouses.
After reading Monica’s Story, I had to jump right into this book. The author is a brilliant conservative lawyer and the book sometimes jumps around, where she adds some of her comments. Keep a dictionary around which she will pretty quickly explain why Clinton is a “Prevaricator”.
Clinton has no scruples, or integrity and is loyal only to his immediate court. If you’re in the circle, you are expected to lie and cover for Clinton. He has no shame, no sense of duty to the country or his reputation. This is shown in the many questionable actions he created. Whitewater scandal where his lawyer Matt Hubble was paid hush money, Gennifer Flowers and Monica incidents, selling access of overnight stays in the Lincoln Bedroom for a 50K donation. A coffee meeting was cheaper, only 10K. There were political prosecutions of enemies. Patricia & Glenn Mendoza told Clinton “You Suck”, as a result, they were arrested, and held for 12 hours, the IRS threatened to seize property over a $200 tax debt. So he falls into the SKUMBAG category.
Every incident of his criminal or civil misbehaving always has four parts. It will always benefit Clinton, he never routed out or punished any underlings, and most underlings end up with promotions, attractive job offers, or major consulting fees. Whatever the scandal, POTUS is not responsible, he claims it’s his administration and he only learned about it from the newspaper, just as you did.
The Constitution, says that the utmost care is taken to ensure the president is a man of the highest integrity, but if an unscrupulous man entered the White House, the impeachment clause would suffice. While the goal is the common good of society. When electors are deceived by those brilliant appearances of genius and patriotism by the few who mislead and dazzle, we have the impeachment clause of Article 1. When High Crimes and Misdemeanors are discussed, a common misconception is a crime must occur, it has nothing to do with criminal conduct or the criminal code. It has to do with the integrity of the person or office position and the old English standard of impeachable conduct.
The idea this book wants to drive home is the fact that our forefathers who designed our “Republic” government believed they could always find Men (or women) with the highest levels of honesty, integrity, and morals to become President of the United States. Don’t ever lower these values in your life and don’t be around anybody that has.
Love Dad, T.R.M.
To my wife, J.E.M.; children, B.J.M.; A.N.C.; T.L.L. and their spouses.
After reading Monica’s Story, I had to jump right into this book. The author is a brilliant conservative lawyer and the book sometimes jumps around, where she adds some of her comments. Keep a dictionary around which she will pretty quickly explain why Clinton is a “Prevaricator”.
Clinton has no scruples, or integrity and is loyal only to his immediate court. If you’re in the circle, you are expected to lie and cover for Clinton. He has no shame, no sense of duty to the country or his reputation. This is shown in the many questionable actions he created. Whitewater scandal where his lawyer Matt Hubble was paid hush money, Gennifer Flowers and Monica incidents, selling access of overnight stays in the Lincoln Bedroom for a 50K donation. A coffee meeting was cheaper, only 10K. There were political prosecutions of enemies. Patricia & Glenn Mendoza told Clinton “You Suck”, as a result, they were arrested, and held for 12 hours, the IRS threatened to seize property over a $200 tax debt. So he falls into the SKUMBAG category.
Every incident of his criminal or civil misbehaving always has four parts. It will always benefit Clinton, he never routed out or punished any underlings, and most underlings end up with promotions, attractive job offers, or major consulting fees. Whatever the scandal, POTUS is not responsible, he claims it’s his administration and he only learned about it from the newspaper, just as you did.
The Constitution, says that the utmost care is taken to ensure the president is a man of the highest integrity, but if an unscrupulous man entered the White House, the impeachment clause would suffice. While the goal is the common good of society. When electors are deceived by those brilliant appearances of genius and patriotism by the few who mislead and dazzle, we have the impeachment clause of Article 1. When High Crimes and Misdemeanors are discussed, a common misconception is a crime must occur, it has nothing to do with criminal conduct or the criminal code. It has to do with the integrity of the person or office position and the old English standard of impeachable conduct.
The idea this book wants to drive home is the fact that our forefathers who designed our “Republic” government believed they could always find Men (or women) with the highest levels of honesty, integrity, and morals to become President of the United States. Don’t ever lower these values in your life and don’t be around anybody that has.
Love Dad, T.R.M.
April 30, 2023
"The worst that can be said about Nixon is the least that Clinton is willing to admit." 20 chapters and 30+ pages of copious end notes lay out how this is not hyperbolic. I finally finished this on my 4th attempt. I'm sure having my blood pressure artificially regulated this time played a role.
Most of my generation was raised to believe that Clinton's impeachment hearings were a puritanical witch hunt "all about sex" - not about the bribery, obstruction of justice, perjury, and treason.
Rating: MA
Most of my generation was raised to believe that Clinton's impeachment hearings were a puritanical witch hunt "all about sex" - not about the bribery, obstruction of justice, perjury, and treason.
Rating: MA
January 2, 2020
What you can get away with when the media is on your side. It also helps when the opposition is only worried about their own election.
December 11, 2025
It was ok.
Typical for Coulter. Does some things well. Others not so much.
Tends to stretch her evidence past the point of proving what she claims it proves.
Typical for Coulter. Does some things well. Others not so much.
Tends to stretch her evidence past the point of proving what she claims it proves.
November 21, 2024
I'm not sure what's more relevant to my rating: the relentless pursuit of whataboutism, or the hyper focus on a topic that I am at best only mildly interested in - US political history of the 1990s. Well, that last part isn't fair; depending on the author, I could be interested in the dazzle of 90s politics. Too bad that Ann Coulter ain't it.
October 10, 2011
Ann Coulter's books are usually snarky and dwell on a number of different subjects. This early book of hers focuses on the Clinton Administration and was written before the Impeachment proceedings began. Coulter starts with a definition of 'high crimes and misdemeanors' and looks at why the writers of the Constitution included such a section. Using extensive notes and quotes, it is clear the Founding Fathers were not looking at criminal acts but at the moral character of the nation's leaders. Moving to the present day, Coulter then makes a case as to why Bill Clinton should have faced impeachment. And she uses more notes and quotes to do so.
If you're used to Coulter's 'attack dog' style of writing, you'll find this very different. She presents her argument using facts and not opinion. This isn't the first book I've read on the Clinton Administration (the late Barbara Olsen wrote a scathing attack at the end of the Presidency), and is much in line with other reads. It makes me wonder what life might have been like if Hillary had won the Democratic nomination and then gone on to win in 2008...
If you're used to Coulter's 'attack dog' style of writing, you'll find this very different. She presents her argument using facts and not opinion. This isn't the first book I've read on the Clinton Administration (the late Barbara Olsen wrote a scathing attack at the end of the Presidency), and is much in line with other reads. It makes me wonder what life might have been like if Hillary had won the Democratic nomination and then gone on to win in 2008...
October 19, 2007
Her most scholarly work, the one that put Ann Coulter on the map, this volume is highly informative and witty, a bit cutting as usual for her. Anyone wishing to understand the historical and legal basis for impeachment need read little else. After detailing what offenses had constituted High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Coulter applies the same standards to President Clinton with devastating efficiency. Clinton's defense amounted to "is" might not mean "is," and "alone" might not mean "alone," but the evidence against him was overwhelming.
February 8, 2010
If Coulter is trying to change my perception of a president I had previously liked to an opinion of questionable dislike with this book, then I'd say she came pretty close to accomplishing her goal. I still think that a lot of the things that Clinton accomplished in office were honorable and necessary, but I now question the integrity with which he reached those goals. I also find myself wondering if maybe he should've been impeached after all; albeit not for something so minor as perjury in a deposition, but perhaps something more like treason?
December 12, 2012
Surveys the history of "high crimes and misdemeanors" and how Clinton's actions fit this. An interesting survey of the history behind the terminology. She goes back to English law since this is where the terminology comes from. She shows that the term refers to private behaviour not public ie political actions.
December 14, 2007
Talks about Monica but also about his and Hillary's other questionable behaviors... She outlines her research with so many bitchy comments and opinions that I think she loses a lot of the credibility that she claims to have. At least the bitchiness is entertaining.
June 10, 2010
I thought AC laid out her claims nicely in this book. I read this during a time in which I read all of her works. I haven't quite figured out if she has become more radical or I have become less radical because I won't touch her books now.
August 10, 2007
Another reason to keep the Clintons out of the Whitehouse again.
September 4, 2007
Again, this is a very conservative way of looking at Clinton. She is well researched, though.
started-it-but-not-reading-it-now
July 7, 2008Could never get into this book...
January 19, 2009
Excellent!
June 25, 2011
More relevant in its time, but still details what an absolute scumbag Clinton is and what a tool Lewinsky is. Thank heaven for Tripp and Starr.
Read
June 22, 2012Very educational regarding the true meaning of the term "high crimes and misdemeanors".
Astoundingly appropriate for today.
Astoundingly appropriate for today.
September 6, 2012
This is Ann Coulter's first major book, I think, and to date it's her most academic. It shows how "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" is a term of art and not a synonym for "felonies and misdemanors."
October 15, 2012
If you were around when Bill Clinton did not have sex with that women, then you know what this book is about. The events are intriguing. I just wasn't into cigars.
June 20, 2016
Excellent reminder of the nonsense, crimes and unethical conduct of both of the Clinton's during Bill Clinton's time as President. It continues today!
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