Stealing from the American people is still the best case against Trump

Looting the government treasury is obvious grounds for impeachment

President Trump.
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The second round of impeachment hearings started Wednesday, with the House Judiciary Committee obtaining testimony from a panel of constitutional and legal experts on the impeachable nature of President Trump's attempt to blackmail Ukraine into interfering in the 2020 election. They also repeatedly noted Trump's obstruction of the Mueller investigation.

Those are surely important things to establish, and are more than enough cause to throw Trump out of office. But so far it appears that the impeachment inquiry is going to remain narrowly focused on the Ukraine and Russia scandals, and thus leave a hugely obvious and damning aspect of Trump's corruption unmentioned — namely, his unconstitutional profiteering off the presidency.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.