If any other Rep POTUS in history did those exact same things they wouldn’t have been impeached.
I don't believe that's true, because there was a Republican president, Richard Nixon, who similarly abused the power of his office. Richard Nixon tried to enlist the aid of an apolitical law enforcement agency (
the FBI), that falls under the purview of the federal government, in his efforts to cover up the break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters inside of the Watergate Hotel, and to also quell the ensuing investigation. Richard Nixon was not only assured of being impeached, he would have also been removed from office. Nixon chose to resign first.
People on each side just screech at the things the others do while doing the same things or something similar themselves.
You can't point to a Democratic Party President who tried to use the Attorney General (
an apolitical position) to help him overturn his own Presidential Election defeat.
In late December, an official with the Department of Justice, named Jeffrey Clark, sent a letter to the acting Attorney General, Jeffrey Rosen, at the behest of President Donald Trump which outlined Trump's strategy for retaining the presidency. This purported strategy involved Attorney General Rosen publicly announcing (
without presenting any evidence) that the 2020 Presidential Election "
was corrupt". Per Jeffrey Rosen, Trump's exact words were, "
Just say the election was corrupt [and] leave the rest to me."
The only reason this strategy wasn't successful, can be attributed to the sound ethics of then-Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen. He refused to take part in it, while other Senior DOJ officials (
such as Richard Donoghue) threatened to resign if Trump replaced Rosen with Clark. So, Trump decided to ditch this strategy.
This episode was an unprecedented abuse of power by former President Donald Trump.