The case for impeaching Trump

 - We must impeach Trump and every senior officer who has enabled the most corrupt pRobert Hubbellresident in our nation’s past, present, and future.

The defining characteristics of the Trump administration are corruption, criminality, and depravity. The breathtaking scope of Trump’s lawlessness far exceeds his feeble attention span and narrow windows of inter-nap activity. Still, for a man who is monumentally incompetent and lazy, he has managed to convert multiple federal departments and agencies into protection rackets for Trump, including (but not limited to) DOJ, FBI, Treasury, Defense, and Homeland Security. Like a mob boss sitting atop a corrupt pyramid, he couldn’t do it alone, and he hasn’t.

Which is why Democrats must initiate the process of impeaching Trump and every “civil officer of the United States” subject to impeachment under the Constitution who has assisted Trump in converting large swaths of the federal government into a criminal enterprise.

Trump has committed an impeachable act every day of his second term (by withholding appropriated funds in violation of the Antideficiency Act), but on Monday, he reached an unthinkable level of corruption: He ordered the DOJ, IRS, and Treasury to gift him a $1.8 billion slush fund. He—and he alone—will decide in secret which of his cronies and family members will receive tax free payouts from the federal government without going through the pesky bother of filing a lawsuit, stating a claim, proving that claim before a jury, establishing damages, and withstanding appeal.