Commentary: Impeaching Trump on the phone call alone won't go far enough
by James Reston Jr., Los Angeles Times
Oct 02, 2019
4 minutes
Signals have emerged in Washington that the Democratic leadership in the House may limit the impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump solely to one act of presidential abuse of power, his call to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of Ukraine.
Soliciting a foreign government for personal reelection help, the thinking goes, is the strongest, clearest, most understandable of all the alleged crimes and clear abuses we have witnessed in the past year and a half. It's the smoking gun. Let's use it and get impeachment done fast, down and dirty.
Such a speed-driven narrowing of the inquiry would be a fundamental error.
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