Trump could offer Alaska to the Russians in exchange for support in the next election

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"A whole range of utterly unacceptable conduct in a president would now be beyond reach. Trump could offer Alaska to the Russians in exchange for support in the next election. Or decide to move to Mar-A-Lago permanently and decide to let Jared Kushner run the country delegating to him the decision whether to go to war.  Because those things are not necessarily criminal, the argument would allow that he could not be impeached for such abuses of power.  Of course this would be absurd, more than absurd it would be dangerous."

So, is Schiff saying that if Trump is not impeached then he is so dangerous that he might give Alaska to the Russians?  No, but he is saying that there is no difference between the conduct that he did - made a phone call and temporarily withheld aid - and an absurd scenario.  I think that if Trump were acting crazily then there would be justification for removing him from office, whether the reason is "abuse of power" or something else. For Schiff, you can either remove a president or you can't, and if you can't remove Trump over this then there is no conceivable (non-criminal) reason to ever remove him.  I think it is more nuanced than that. You have to give the president some deference and leeway but still recognize that there is an ill-defined line that he can't cross.