NYTimes Bret Stephens: Why the president must be impeached and removed.

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The United States Is Starting to Look Like Ukraine
Why the president must be impeached and removed.

Donald Trump ought to be impeached and removed from office. This isn’t what I thought two months ago, when the impeachment inquiry began. I argued that the evidence fell short of the standards of a prosecutable criminal act. I also feared impeachment might ultimately help Trump politically, as it had helped Bill Clinton in 1998. That second worry might still prove true.

But if the congressional testimonies of Marie Yovanovitch, Bill Taylor, Gordon Sondland, Alexander Vindman and especially Fiona Hill make anything clear, it’s that the president’s highest crime isn’t what he tried to do to, or with, Ukraine.

It’s that he’s attempting to turn the United States into Ukraine. The judgment Congress has to make is whether the American people should be willing, actively or passively, to go along with it.

I’ve followed Ukrainian politics fairly closely since 1999, when I joined the staff of The Wall Street Journal Europe. It has consistent themes that should sound familiar to American ears.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/opinion/trump-impeachment.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

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1. An asshole for the ages turns on his own.

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2. yep, mr stephens is steeped in republican bullshit...

yet, he's for impeachment AND removal