Trump, Ukraine, and yet another liberal rush to cry "impeachment"

But despite all the huffing and puffing by Trump’s critics, it’s not clear what, if any, laws Trump broke by asking about Biden’s business. Nor does the whistleblower statute cover a president’s dealings with a foreign nation.

The Constitution gives presidents virtual carte blanche to conduct US foreign policy. That’s something that frustrated critics of President Barack Obama’s secret dealings with Iran that led to a scandalously weak nuclear deal.

As much as the Democratic-controlled House has the right to conduct oversight over the executive branch, demanding the transcripts of private conversations with foreign leaders would make it impossible for any future president to do his job. And for an intelligence official or operative to treat Trump’s talks with Ukraine as a potential violation of law seems, at best, an overreach. Here, too, there are echoes of the “collusion” hoax, with a politicized US security establishment actively working to undermine a duly elected chief executive.