Democrats are also gathering evidence for possible obstruction of justice charges stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation — including the eyewitness testimony the Judiciary Committee received from former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski last week. Lewandowski testified that the president twice directed him to tell then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to un-recuse himself and shut down Mueller’s investigation of Trump.
The other buckets of potentially impeachable offenses include obstruction of Congress, a category that covers a laundry list of efforts by Trump to prevent the House from obtaining testimony and documents from various federal officials, agencies and even people who do not work for the government — like Lewandowski — over whom Trump has sought to limit disclosures by asserting executive privilege.
Then there are allegations that Trump has used his office to enrich himself in violation of the Constitution’s “emoluments” clause, which prohibits federal officeholders from benefiting financially from their positions…
And finally, there’s a miscellaneous category that involves such headings as the president’s alleged failure to defend the country from enemies and his re-appropriation of congressionally approved funds to build a border wall.
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