WASHINGTON -- Bob Barr was endorsed by noted conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in an interview last week in which Barr pledges to try to impeach President Barack Obama if he returns to Congress.
Barr is competing in a heated GOP primary to replace Rep. Phil Gingrey. The Republican-turned-Libertarian-turned-Republican again is best known for being the engine behind President Bill Clinton's impeachment in the 1990s.
Jones' "Infowars" is a popular Internet radio show and website that fights things like fluoride in drinking water and claims the 9/11 attacks were an inside job. In the below excerpt, Jones alleges that Clinton murdered his enemies and Barr talks about impeaching Obama:
Barr: "Alex, I was with some folks just recently and pulled out of a file in my office the House resolution, the House resolution that I introduced on November fifth of 1997 that was the very first official inquiry of impeachment filed against Bill Clinton and that was mine. And at the time I think I had 18 co-sponsors was all, in November of 1997. And what I did is I took that document, figuratively kind of dusted it off, added a little bit of language to it and darned if it doesn't sound pretty good with Barack Obama's name in there."
Jones: "Oh man. So I think it's safe to say when you get back in Congress, the evidence is already there, you're going to start looking at the inquiry to begin looking for co-sponsors for indicting the president in the House, and I guess he will be tried in the Senate?"
Barr: "I think it really has come to that. It's not something I like to say. When I left the House before after we impeached Clinton, you know, my hope was we wouldn't have to go through that process again. But we do. Mr. President, you are not above the law. You cannot ignore the law. You cannot simply violate the law, violate the Constitution because from a policy standpoint you deem it appropriate to do so. We don't operate that way in America, and you are not going to be permitted any longer to do that."
That clip comes from part two of the interview, shown above. Part One, mostly focused on the NSA and in which Jones hints at armed insurrection, is here. A tip of the cap to the folks at Georgia Tipsheet for first posting the interview.
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