a a donald trump is the only president that has created more reasons for impeachment than the congress knows what to do with. he s not being impeached for being identified by federal prosecutors in a criminal case as the person who directd and participated in the crimes that michael cohen committed while paying off porn star to help donald trump win the presidency. he s not can getting impeached for that. discussions of the possible impeachment began in the first year of the trump presidency because the president was so manifestly incompetent and in obvious public violation of the oath of office repeatedly. ezrucline wrote an important piece the case for normalizing impeachment.
person he brought us here was not jerry nadler or adam schiff or nancy pelosi. it it was donald trump. if you remember nancy pelosi and many in the democratic caucus caucuses-decided that, as pelosi always said that trump wasn t worth this. that he-probably done impeachable things but he wasn t worth putting the country through this. and then he did the ukraine scheme, the ukraine bribery scheme capped by the phone call and then the whistleblower came forward. and immediately the whole thing changed. and it became not unlikely that there would be impeachment. but really became inevitable. it forced the hand of the house and the house-to respond. nancy pelosi, when she was saying donald trump wasn t worth it as impeachment, which is an odd thing to say about the president.