Is the Ukraine Scandal Just a Repeat of Russiagate?
Just as Democrats were beginning to give up on impeachment, President Trump’s Ukraine scandal came to light. But is there any reason to believe things will pan out more conclusively than they did with Russiagate?
Welcome to Russiagate Jr., the Ukraine Game. And this time there are receipts… all Trump needs is some smoke to turn the 2020 election into a corruption fest. It would mean Ukraine isn’t so much the sequel to Russiagate, but Hillary’s emails all over again.
If you are seeing a pattern here, it might be because you, too, have guessed the previously anagogic secret that Democrats are not wild about this Trump guy and really love to talk about impeaching him. What was once a grave and rare undertaking — three times in two and a half centuries, all of them unsuccessful — is now a generic response to any action taken or not taken, alleged or proven or simply imagined, by the president of the United States.
The life of the Trump-Ukraine affair can be measured in days, and the most basic facts of the matter are still unknown. Yet many Democrats and their allies in the media are already renewing their calls for the impeachment of President Trump. By doing so, they are observing one of the lessons of the Trump-Russia investigation: Act before finding out what happened.