The Founding Fathers didn’t, nor shall We, the People assign any definition. The term was purposely left ill-defined for various reasons. The judicial system as t’were, barely existed at the time. The “Term” ≠ criminal act(s). Despite the fact that Trump and co-conspirators have clearly broken MANY laws, that is not the issue. The issue to me is now simply, how low can politics go, before politics itself becomes equated with crime?
But think about exactly what they did say – particularly you literal-leaning conservatives: “High” crimes and misdemeanors. Perhaps in their well-considered opinion, the Term should be expected to include a wide range of activities from high to low on the criminal terminology scale. Now watch McConnell and his gang of hate mongers interpret that exactly ass-backwards, with literally nothing “rising” to the level of an impeachable offense.
Must be a long way to rise from the bottom of that cesspool.