Would impeachment cover Trump's impairment of national security?
By Jennifer Rubin June 1 at 12:15 PM
Before the price goes sky-high, I’d strongly suggest that interested observers, journalists, lawmakers and Hill staff go pick up a copy of the seminal “Impeachment: A Handbook,” by Charles L. Black Jr. Written while President Richard Nixon was still in office, it remains the seminal work on impeachment — and is succinct and highly readable, to boot.
The immediate issue at hand seems to be whether noncriminal conduct, whatever the motive, that repeatedly puts the country’s national security at risk and/or advances a foreign power’s interest above ours (collectively, we’ll refer to it as President Trump’s Russia First policy) would be grounds for impeachment.
To review, Trump has:
* Encouraged Russia to hack into Democrats’ emails;
* Delayed 18 days (if in fact his White House counsel kept him abreast) after a warning from then-acting attorney general Sally Yates before firing national security adviser Michael Flynn (whom Yates explained was compromised to the Russians);
* Provided code-word classified intelligence to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in the Oval Office;
* Continued to question whether Russia interfered with the U.S. election, despite near certitude among all the intelligence agencies and members of both parties (not to mention allies’ intelligence services);
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