Defenders of President Donald Trump have repeatedly claimed that the president can’t be impeached because he didn’t break any laws, despite the fact that Congress does not need to prove explicitly illegal activity to formally impeach a president.
All the same, one official who served in the George W. Bush administrationbelieves that the president very possibly did break federal laws against bribery with his attempt to shake down Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.
Philip Zelikow, a history professor at the University of Virginia, has written an article on Lawfare outlining exactly why the president is in both political and legal jeopardy.
View the complete October 24 article by Brad Reed from Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.