Trump's List of Impeachable Offenses Is Growing

In the past four days alone, two new items were added to President Trump's list of impeachable offenses. He was already a sitting duck for a charge of obstruction of justice, which as an impeachable offense doesn't require the standard of proof—intent—that a criminal charge does. He was also already vulnerable to a charge of accepting foreign emoluments—at the least for the profits his hotel just down Pennsylvania Avenue has been raking in from foreign governments, but also for some questionable business dealings by his sons in foreign countries and for flagrant ethics violations stemming from his refusal to detach himself from his private business interests. (Shortly before Trump took office, his “ethics lawyer,” in Trump's presence, announced that his private company, now to be run by his sons, “will not enter into any new overseas deals while Trump is president.” This was the press conference that featured stacks of empty envelopes piled on a table.)