Power of the office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring and injuring the national interest. Or acts in ways that are grossly inconsistent with and undermine the separation of powers that is the foundation of our democratic system. Now, these this question of whether president engaged in abuse of power came up before when this congress considered the impeachment of president nixon. And after action was taken, president nixon famously said if the president does it, it is not illegal. And this body rejected that because thats not so. That goes directly contrary to what the founders said. But President Trump has said the same thing in responding to the prior investigation by Department Of Justice and defending his conduct. Here is what he said then i have an article, too, where i have to write to do whatever i want as president. That he has the right to do
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million dollars, the special counsel s 19 attorneys and 40 fbi agents, analysts and staff found no conspiracy or coordination between the trump campaign and the russian government. after the trump russia collusion allegation did not pan out, democrats focussed their efforts on obstruction of justice. they criticized attorney general barr for concluding that no crime of obstruction had occurred in the special counsel investigation. but, in fact, was entirely appropriate for the attorney general to make that call because the special counsel declined to do so. not surprisingly, the democrats mueller hearing was underwhelming to say the least and the sequel with corey lewandowski definitely did not move the impeachment needle either. the intelligence committee, too, was heavily invested in the russia collusion investigation. committee democrats hired former federal prosecutors to prepare for their anticipated efforts to
million, the special counsel s 19 attorneys and 40 fbi agents, analysts and staff, found no conspiracy or coordination between the trump campaign and the russian government. after the trump-russia collusion allegations did not pan out, democrats then focused their efforts on obstruction of justice. they visiton sized attorney general barr for concluding that none crime of obstruction had occurred in the special counsel investigation. but, in fact, it was entirely appropriate for the attorney general to make that call because the special counsel declined to do so. not surprisingly, the democrats mueller hearing was underwhelming, to say the least, and thehe sequel with corey lewandowski definitely did not prove theni impeachment needle either. the intelligence committee is heavily invested in the russia collusion investigation.
nixon s. for example, i think timing is having a lot to do with this and happy belated thanksgiving. look, between thanksgiving and christmas, i know i, for a fact, don t want to get angry at people. i don t want to be angry impeachment for democrats to move the impeachment needle. they ve got to get people angrier than they are today. especially in the center in america. that s not happening. i also see evolution. you know, we don t see right and wrong the same way we did in the 70s during richard nixon. america has evolved in its right or wrong philosophy. look, i think what president trump is ostensibly being accused of is more serious than what richard nixon was accused of, but richard nixon s numbers tumbled to the point where he couldn t sustain the presidency, so he quit. and you know, i don t see the democrats gaining from this unless somehow, some way they re able to move the political needle as well as a few republican votes.