JimBowie1958
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A 'high crime and misdemeanor' is essentially, as I understand it, a regular crime but committed with public office using the powers of office.
So if the President say broke into a building to steal secrets from his opponents offices, it is not a high crime unless it was to benefit him and he USED the POWERS OF OFFICE to enable the break in.
If a politician has an affair and pays hush money out of his own funds it might be a crime depending on the state, but if he paid out of the public treasury it is a high crime.
So what crime is alledged that Trump committed using his powers of office to commit the crime?
Anyone?
Did he take $1.5 billion from the Chicoms, or use his office to get lovers, or to trade on the information gfained in office, or simply steal public money without a trace?
What was his crime of office?
So if the President say broke into a building to steal secrets from his opponents offices, it is not a high crime unless it was to benefit him and he USED the POWERS OF OFFICE to enable the break in.
If a politician has an affair and pays hush money out of his own funds it might be a crime depending on the state, but if he paid out of the public treasury it is a high crime.
So what crime is alledged that Trump committed using his powers of office to commit the crime?
Anyone?
Did he take $1.5 billion from the Chicoms, or use his office to get lovers, or to trade on the information gfained in office, or simply steal public money without a trace?
What was his crime of office?