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
president. representative tlaib said we re going to go in there and impeach the president. in may, 2019, representative green said on msnbc if we don t impeach this president, he will be re-elected. even speaker pelosi, who has said that impeachment is a somber and prayerful exercise has called president trump an imposter. and said it is dangerous to allow voters to judge his performance in 2020. the obsession with impeaching the president is reflected in house democrats used the power of their majority in the past 11 months. informer sight committee, the democrats first announced witness was michael cohen, a disgraced felon who pleaded guilty to lying to congress. when he came before us, at the oversight committee, he then lied again as many as eight