Trump secretary of state, attorney general implicated in impeachment scandal

The Guardian wrote:An effort in recent months by Donald Trump to rewrite the history of the 2016 US presidential election and set up a 2020 re-election victory was both more geographically sprawling and reliant on the day-to-day participation of top cabinet members than previously reported, it emerged on Monday.

Both William Barr, the attorney general, and Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, collectively participated in contacts between Trump and leaders of at least four foreign countries, according to multiple reports.

Those contacts were variously aimed at producing stories that could damage Joe Biden, Trump’s potential 2020 opponent, or at producing stories that could undermine the US intelligence community assessment from 2017 of Russian election tampering in the last election, the reports said.

Original Quill wrote:The July 25th phone call is all that is needed.  In fact, it is an actus reus of the crime.  It's like a video clip that gives everything that happened without any comment at all.

But there are remaining questions.  One is, who should be impeached?  Being tossed about are Trump, VP Mike Pence, AG Wm. Barr, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, and other participants in the conspiracy.

Also, there are other dimensions of the conspiracy to be uncovered.  It's beginning to shape up like a RICO crime.  Part of this will be for the prosecutions after impeachments, but an investigation is in order now to see if there are any pieces to fit into impeachment.