The fact that some of Trump’s critics were contemplating impeachment for years before they settled on this charge hardly absolves him. jonathanchait writes
President-elect Donald Trump on January 11, 2017, posing with fake manila folders, promising to turn over control of his business to his sons. Photo: Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images “The fact that they have long wanted to impeach the president suggests those Democrats view the Trump-Ukraine matter as just the latest, and perhaps the best, chance to get the president,” argues fiercely pro-Trump columnist Byron York today.
As a factual account of Democratic behavior, this is mostly wrong. The party’s decision-makers — the House leadership and the 40 or so most-vulnerable members who controlled its majority — all vocally opposed impeachment until this autumn. Before the Ukraine scandal, Nancy Pelosi and her majority-makers displayed no interest in impeachment and strongly pushed back against suggestions they undertake it.
The reason many Trump critics were contemplating impeachment even before he took office is that Trump supplied evidence of his unfitness for office on a near-daily basis.
And Trump has compounded all the abuses of power he promised before taking office by committing new ones he hadn’t. He has exposed American intelligence to its enemies, either by communicating over easily breached channels or simply spilling secret operational details to the Russians in the Oval Office. He demanded personal loyalty from his FBI director and then fired him for failing to quash an investigation.
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