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
misdemeanors but because they disagree with his policies. this impeachment inquiry is not the organic outgrowth of serious misconduct. democrats have been searching for a set of facts which to impeach president trump on january 20, 2017. just 27 minutes after the president s inauguration that day, the washington post ran a story that the campaign to impeach the president has already begun. the article reported democrats and liberal activists are mounting broad opposition to stymy trump s agenda and noted that impeachment strategists believed the constitution s emoluments clause would be the vehicle. in the first two years of the administration, democrats in the house introduced articles of impeachment to remove president trump from office on several very different factual bases. on january 3rd, the very first day of the new congress, congressman short-termman introduced articles of impeachment against the