The "obstruction of Congress" charge is ridiculous, as it's over Trump's refusal to cooperate in his own impeachment inquiry. In effect, Congress was asking him to try to impeach himself, so naturally he refused, which was his right.
As for "abuse of power, most POTUSes from the 20th century til now have done many of the same things. The most-obvious was FDR's threat to withhold badly-needed destroyers & merchant ships from Britain unless Churchill agreed to FDR's strategy. No one in the OSA cried "Foul" then, even though the stakes were much-higher then. In those days, victory for the Allies was far-from-certain.
And since then, every POTUS has used "foreign aid" as a leverage tool to get certain nations to do certain things our way. And that includes MILITARY aid. Just ask the little oil countries threatened by Saddam's Iraq !
Now, Clinton outright LIED to Congress about Monica & Paula Jones. That CERTAINLY was a CRIME ! But, the Senate didn't come close to removing him. They considered that to be too-harsh a penalty for the minor infractions he'd done. They recognized that no POTUS is perfect, nor is any member of Congress, as all are merely people, not Jesus Himself.
Now, why would Pelosi want to withhold the articles from the Senate, now that the House has passed them? Because she's trying to get Mc Connell to hold the trial HER way. Appears SHE'S obstructing Congress at least as much or more than she accused Trump of doing by holding up the Constitutionally-mandated process of impeachment if she goes through with her threat to withhold those articles !
But she knows the political fallout against the Dems will be immense once the Senate clears Trump, & the GOP starts screaming about the Dems' huge waste of taxpayer $$s. She's trying to mitigate the damage somehow. Remember, she wasn't screaming bloody murder wanting impeachment to start with.
End results: Come Nov. 2020, a plug will be pulled from a big drain pipe in the swamp !
As for "abuse of power, most POTUSes from the 20th century til now have done many of the same things. The most-obvious was FDR's threat to withhold badly-needed destroyers & merchant ships from Britain unless Churchill agreed to FDR's strategy. No one in the OSA cried "Foul" then, even though the stakes were much-higher then. In those days, victory for the Allies was far-from-certain.
And since then, every POTUS has used "foreign aid" as a leverage tool to get certain nations to do certain things our way. And that includes MILITARY aid. Just ask the little oil countries threatened by Saddam's Iraq !
Now, Clinton outright LIED to Congress about Monica & Paula Jones. That CERTAINLY was a CRIME ! But, the Senate didn't come close to removing him. They considered that to be too-harsh a penalty for the minor infractions he'd done. They recognized that no POTUS is perfect, nor is any member of Congress, as all are merely people, not Jesus Himself.
Now, why would Pelosi want to withhold the articles from the Senate, now that the House has passed them? Because she's trying to get Mc Connell to hold the trial HER way. Appears SHE'S obstructing Congress at least as much or more than she accused Trump of doing by holding up the Constitutionally-mandated process of impeachment if she goes through with her threat to withhold those articles !
But she knows the political fallout against the Dems will be immense once the Senate clears Trump, & the GOP starts screaming about the Dems' huge waste of taxpayer $$s. She's trying to mitigate the damage somehow. Remember, she wasn't screaming bloody murder wanting impeachment to start with.
End results: Come Nov. 2020, a plug will be pulled from a big drain pipe in the swamp !
