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The Impeachable Tweets

Trump’s admissions on social media alone provide enough material for Congress to remove him.
Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

Forget creating more committees. Forget trying to get at the secret server in the White House. Forget issuing more subpoenas that will never be obeyed. The House already has everything it needs for impeachment, right now, and all of it was provided by President Donald J. Trump. His public statements—and especially his tweets—are a record of impeachable admissions.

Like the suspect in the last minutes of every episode of or , or Jack Nicholson’s bug-eyed Marine colonel bellowing at the end of , Trump is a compulsive confessor. He can’t help himself. He wants you to know that he did everything he’s accused of doing, and that he had every right to do it. From abuse of power to witness intimidation, from attempts to benefit from foreign

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