Part of what has distinguished the House’s impeachment drive against President Donald Trump is that its inquiry was not principally about a cover-up.Unlike the scandals that prompted the previous two impeachments, the Ukraine affair was no “third-rate burglary,” nor was it an extramarital assignation in the Oval Office. The underlying accusation of wrongdoing against Trump—that he held up hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to a U.S. ally in a scheme to aid his reelection campaign—is of a different nature entirely.Yet in the 300-page impeachment report released this afternoon, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee made clear that …read more
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