Trump Aims to Weaponize Impeachment

Politico: “A dozen people around Trump said the approach is rooted in recent history and the president’s own love for a fight. Trump has discussed with aides how a cascading series of investigations helped propel President Bill Clinton to a second term in 1996 and then led to historic setbacks for House Republican in the 1998 midterms when they ran on a platform to impeach the Democratic president.”

“Trump himself is also telling people that anything House Democrats write into impeachment articles against him will fall short of the loosely defined ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ threshold spelled out in the Constitution, making him confident of an acquittal in the GOP-led Senate.”