Not this President, silly…..but yes, Senator Jeff Sessions did say that, in 1999, when presiding over the Bill Clinton impeachment. Washington Post today gives Sessions’ full 1999 quote:
“The chief law officer of the land, whose oath of office calls on him to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, crossed the line and failed to defend the law, and, in fact, attacked the law and the rights of a fellow citizen,” Sessions said during Clinton’s trial in the Senate, according to his remarks archived in the congressional record.
“Under our Constitution, equal justice requires that he forfeit his office,” the Alabama senator continued.
The hypocrisy is hip-deep now.
This should certainly be used as legal precedent for impeachment.
Video of Sessions’ remarks at the 1999 impeachment hearing here: