House Democrats plan to frame their case for impeaching President Donald Trump as a check on his “abuse of power,” according to an NBC News report Monday.
According to NBC’s report, Democrats’ strategy for winning the public’s approval on impeachment is to present their case in simple terms as House investigators probe Trump’s attempts to force Ukraine to find dirt on his political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.
Wrapping up the Ukraine scheme into the overall framework of Trump’s “abuse of power” gives Pelosi the simple selling point she’s aiming for, an unnamed source told NBC.
“What made it abusive is it was done in a way that betrayed the country and our national security interests and helped his own interests politically,” another source told NBC.
However, House Democrats reportedly have not made a final decision yet.
Trump personifies Abuse of Power = Malfeasance in Office and Personal Gain while in office!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/08/28/trump-exemplifies-abuse-of-power/
Finally- some sense: It’s ALL about Abuse-of-Power.
One Article and a million examples.
Why not focus on his illegal acts?
Seems there are plenty of those.
It’s reportedly a toss-up between “abuse of power” and “really totally was guilty of collusion but Barr got in our way”
The NBC article goes better into detail, but I do agree that labels matter, and that label should be something that’s very clear and includes directly illegal acts in it.
Words like “extortion”, for example.