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
whatever he wants as president. That is as wrong as when president nixon said a similar thing. That is not what the c
christmas. during the clinton impeachment in 1998, the chairman said at bare minimum the president s accusers must go beyond hearsay and innuendo and beyond the demands that the president improve his innocence of vague and changing charges. i would submit that those words ring as true today as the chairman believed them to be in 1998. the blacksmith record is heavily reliant on hearsay, innuendo and presumptions. democrats have lobbed vague and ever-changing charges for impeachment going as far back as the president s inauguration. for all these reasons the extraordinary exercise of the house s impeachment on authority is not warranted on the evidentiary record presented. thank you for allowing me to present this information this morning. and i yield back. gentleman yields back.