Whatwe that means, its to use e power of the office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring orfi 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, this question of whether the president engaged in abuse of power came up before when this congress considered the impeachment of president nixon. And president nixon famously said, if the president does it, it is notde 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 the Department Of Justice and defending his conduct. Heres what he said. I have an article 2 where i have the right 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
intelligence community found thatig russia alone interfered theed 2016 u.s. election and special counsel muellerti who indicted 12 russians for this conspiracy testified before congress that the russian government interferedth in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion. dr. fiona hill an expert on russia and president putin who served on p the national securi council until july testified that theun president was told b his own former senior advisors including his homeland security adviser andur national security adviser thatti the alternative theory that ukraine interfered in the election was false. and although no one in the u.s. government knew of any factual support for this theory, it did have one significant supporter. russian president putin. in february of 2017, president putin said, second as we all know, during the presidential