If the president's view of non- truth prevails, we set a double standard. The presidential perjurers, in the future, will have no consequences to face. Everybody else could go to jail. Conduct that would strip an admiral or general of his position, land a sergeant in prison or deprive an administrative nominee of a Cabinet post, is condoned for the president. Our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines will be bound by the high ethical code which they should be.
Leadership is by example and setting the higher standard.
I believe the Office of the President is one which has reposed a special trust of the American people, by virtue of having gained a majority of the American people's electoral vote. The trust given the president by the people, I believe, has been broken and betrayed. The president is no longer entitled to the benefit of the doubt as to his actions and his judgments, such as the use of military force, and his foreign travel on behalf of the people of the United States. He is now second-guessed by everyone in coffee shops all across this country. If this committee cannot bring itself to impeach a perjurious president, the bar will be raised for future circumstances that the House and this committee might face.