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
impeach the president. now that the russian collusion allegations did not work out, democrats have settled on the ukraine phone call, eight lines the president utderred on july 25th with ukrainian president zelensky. but the foreign affairs committee, the committee on jurisdiction wasn t the committee leading the impeachment inquiry or holding the hearings. never was the oversight committee. the houses chief investigative entity. the judiciary committee was only recently brought back into the mix after fact finding concluded. instead the impeachment inquiry was run by the house intelligence committee and these former federal prosecutors. democrats on the intelligence committee ran the impeachment inquiry in a manifestly unfair way. all the fact-finding was unclassified and that was made clear at the top of every single deposition but the democrats took advantage of the closed door process in the capitol