The dam is breaking on Trump's criminal and traitorous behavior whilst in office...
leaks beget leaks which beget leaks... it is a deluge of obvious oath-breaking, criminality, bribery, extortion, and the like. It will only build from here.
The problem which we must grapple with, and solve, is that nearly the entirety of the Republican party (both elected and voting) does not care about lawlessness, faithlessness, treason, or even worse. The deluge of criminality is nothing to them. Really nothing at all. They care about "are you on my team? Oh, good! Well, then everything else is fine."
As I see it, the purpose of any impeachment inquiry is not really about developing an evidentiary basis for the Senate to remove Trump (McConnell's Senate will NOT do that in any imaginable universe. Period). The purpose of any impeachment inquiry is to bring. the. electoral. pain. to GOP Congresspersons and Senators for declining to impeach and remove.
McConnell et al will manipulate the Senate rules in obviously bogus and downright "up-is-down, down-is-up; we've always been at war with Eastasia" manners to prevent the Senate trial from actually dealing with the majority of the evidence against Trump. As such, it falls to Pelosi, Schiff et al to bring this evidence center stage *prior to the impeachment vote* to make sure that any Repuke voting against impeachment or removal pays the maximum electoral price for that behavior. It won't be the penalty they deserve, but we must make it the best penalty we can extract.
THAT needs to be our focus -- make the GOP pay the largest price possible for their fealty to Putin's puppet.
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"Whilst"?
I know it's still used in the UK, but I find it incredibly antique. 
