Whatwe that means, its to use e power of the office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring orfi 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, this question of whether the president engaged in abuse of power came up before when this congress considered the impeachment of president nixon. And president nixon famously said, if the president does it, it is notde 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 the Department Of Justice and defending his conduct. Heres what he said. I have an article 2 where i have the right to do whatever i want as president. That he has the right to do whatever he wants as president. That is as wrong as when president nixon said a similar thing. That is not what
emails of his political opponent, russia in fact tried to do that for the first time. the very officers who were then indicted by the department of justice for that conduct, they took candidate trump s invitation. now, the american people learned a lesson. president trump unfortunately, apparently, learned a different lesson. let s look. well, i would think that if they were honest about it, they would startut a major investigation into the bidens. it s a very simple answer. they should investigate the bidens. so this was president trump answering ais question about wh didqu he want president zelensk to do. so event after he got caught, is saying again this vulnerable nation dependent on u.s. support militarily and otherwise, and unlike in 2016 when he only had