Francis Wilkinson, Columnist

He Voted to Impeach Clinton. This Looks Bigger.

A Q&A with former GOP Representative Bob Inglis about Trump, Russia and impeachment.

June 13, 2017 at 5:27 PM UTC

Francis Wilkinson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US politics and policy. Previously, he was executive editor for the Week and a writer for Rolling Stone.

Impeachment isn't fun.
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Bob Inglis is a former Republican representative from South Carolina. He compiled a conservative record in the House, where he was a member of the Judiciary Committee and voted in 1998 to impeach President Bill Clinton.

But Inglis deviated from conservative orthodoxy in a couple instances, including his acknowledgment of the connection between carbon emissions and climate change. He was defeated in a 2010 GOP primary by Trey Gowdy, who ran as a conservative purist.