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
from every relevant agency in the trump administration. nevertheless, during the call president trump complained that u.s. support for ukraine was not reciprocal, that somehow ukraine needed to give more to the united states. what did he mean? well, it became clear. immediately after president zelensky brought up u.s. military support and purchasing javelin, anti tank weapons, president trump responded i would like you to do us a favor, though, because our country has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it. now the favor that he referenced there included two demands that had nothing to do with official u.s. policy or foreign policy. first, president trump said i would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with ukraine. they say crowd strike. as you saw yesterday or excuse me, i guess you have one of your wealthy people, it says, the server you say ukraine has