Erin Burnett has left a new comment on your post " Alan Dershowitz slammed present-day scholars for c... ": Instead, the House of Representatives accused President Trump of "abuse of power" because "to obtain an improper personal political benefit" he ignored "national security and other vital national interests." But by this standard, every President, whether Republican or Democrat, is impeachable. Abuse of power is a cliché accusation that politicians routinely toss at each other. Here, the alleged abuse of power is that President Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate corruption and election meddling as a quid pro quo for timely receiving certain military assistance from the U.S. government. That is why Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, asked Prof. Dershowitz, "As a matter of law, does it matter if there was a quid pro quo?" Of course, it is self-evidently in the public interest for voters to know about corrupti...
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