A full accounting of Trump's potentially impeachable offenses would include a wide array of dangerous and authoritarian acts — 82, to be precise. Here are all of them
Photo-Illustration: Joe Darrow. Photograph: Shutterstock . The crimes for which impeachment is the prescribed punishment are notoriously undefined. And that’s for a reason: Presidential powers are vast, and it’s impossible to design laws to cover every possible abuse of the office’s authority. House Democrats have calculated that an impeachment focused narrowly on the Ukraine scandal will make the strongest legal case against President Trump. But that’s not Trump’s only impeachable offense.
II. Mishandling Classified Information Explanation: As he does with many other laws, the president enjoys broad immunity from regulations on the proper handling of classified information, allowing him to take action that would result in felony convictions for other federal employees. President Trump’s mishandling of classified information is not merely careless but a danger to national security.
Evidence: Having failed to secure funding authority for a border wall, President Trump unilaterally ordered funds to be moved from other budget accounts. He has undermined regulations on health insurance under the Affordable Care Act preventing insurers from charging higher rates to customers with more expensive risk profiles.
V. Obstruction of Justice Explanation: By virtue of his control over the federal government’s investigative apparatus, the president is uniquely well positioned to cover up his own misconduct. Impeachment is the sole available remedy for a president who uses his powers of office to hold himself immune from legal accountability.
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