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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vote your conscious. but that is a reason for us to have a fair debate about what the undisputed facts show. to recognize that it is wrong, it is very wrong, and it cannot happen again with this president or any president. it is a reason to talk about whether we want our children and grandchildren to live in a country where the president-elected by the people can put his own personal and political interests over the interest of the people who elected them. it is a reason for these debates to, again, fairly focus on the facts and to make sure the presentations we re going to hear will not distort the record, focus on process points, raise extraneous matters that really are intended to distract rather than focus on what the conduct was at issue here. it is a reason to focus on the
vote your conscience. but that is a reason for us to have a fair debate about what the undisputed facts show. to recognize that it is wrong it is very wrong and cannot happen again with this president or any president. it is a reason to talk about whether we want our children and grandchildren to live in a country where the president elected by the people can put his own personal and political interests over the interests of the people who elected them. it is the reason for these debates to again fairly focus on the facts and to make sure the presentations we are going to hear will not distort the record. focus on process points, raise extraneous matters that are intended to distract rather than focus what the conduct was at issue here.
for or against impeachment. for that of course you must vote your conscience. but that is a reason for us to have a fair debate about what the undisputed facts show. to recognize that it is wrong, it is very wrong, and it cannot happen again with this president or any president. it is a reason to talk about whether we wantlk our children d grandchildren to live in a country where the president elected by the people can put his own personal and political interests over the interests of the people who elected them. it is a reason for these debates to, again, fairly focus on the facts and to make sure the presentations we re going to hear will not distort the record. focus on process points, raise extraneous matters that really arean intended to distract rath than focus on what the conduct was at issue here.