Reports surfaced last week that President Trump allegedly pressured the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, to reopen a corruption investigation involving former vice president Joe Biden’s son. The details of the exchange, which purportedly included “a promise” to the foreign leader, were reportedly so alarming that a U.S. intelligence official who worked at the White House filed a whistleblower complaint with the inspector general of the intelligence community.
Trump’s alleged pressing of a foreign government into helping him against a political rival has renewed calls for the president’s impeachment. In an opinion column for The Washington Post, legal scholars George Conway and Neal Katyal even described Trump’s alleged behavior as “the ultimate impeachable act.”
