A root confusion Trump's lawyers are trying to exploit is between a legal trial and a political trial. Impeachment is a political trial but they keep insisting on using the procedures of a criminal or civil legal trial, which don't apply.https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1360611122294972417 …
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Not clear to me he had the legal authority to hand them to Putin. But regardless, you're getting hung up on the definition of "crime." That's not the issue. The issue is that the president has to have committed a crime in order to be impeached, and that case has to be proven.
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Right but the rules for proof and the standard for proof are not those of a criminal case.
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