Once upon a time, an independent counsel named Kenneth Starr wrote a report that got a president impeached for lying about a blow job. Lying about a blow job, Starr believed, constituted perjury and obstruction of justice, and was grounds for removing President Bill Clinton from office—a result he pursued so relentlessly that a New York real estate developer named Donald Trump described him at the time as a “wacko” and a “lunatic.” Sadly for Starr, his dream did not come to pass and Clinton was acquitted in the Senate. But this month, fate gave him a second chance, bringing him back to the halls of Congress to argue that senators must impeach the current president on the same grounds.

Oh wait, that’s not what’s happening at all. Instead, because Republicans like Starr were born without the gene for shame, or the one that perceives hypocrisy, he’s on the legal team for Donald Trump arguing that the president has done nothing wrong in extorting Ukraine for personal gain, and that Democrats are obsessed with impeachment, something he, Kenneth Winston Starr, would know nothing about:

Starr, the investigator who once pushed for President Bill Clinton’s removal, is now defending President Donald Trump from what he described Monday as a dangerous “age of impeachment.”

“In this particular juncture in America's history, the Senate is being called to sit as the high court of impeachment all too frequently,” Starr, a member of the president's defense team, said Monday during the trial. “Indeed, we are living in what I think can aptly be described as the age of impeachment.”

He added: “How did we get here, with presidential impeachment invoked frequently in its inherently destabilizing as well as acrimonious way?”

For those of you who synthesize information best through historical antecedents, this is like Jeffrey Dahmer lecturing his peers for eating people. Or Adolf Hitler asking, “How did we get into this predicament where people don’t care for the Jews?”

The true answer for the whole “how did we get here,“ question is, of course, Starr himself, who former Clinton counselor Paul Begala reminded us Monday so relentlessly pushed for the 42nd president’s impeachment that his own ethics adviser resigned, writing: “You have violated your obligations under the independent counsel statute and have unlawfully intruded on the power of impeachment.”