Noah Feldman, Columnist

There’s Plenty of Impeachment-Worthy Evidence in the Ukraine Call Transcript

Criminals get convicted all the time on evidence this strong.

September 25, 2019 at 5:45 PM UTC

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."

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A White House memo recording Donald Trump’s July phone conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskiy is damning.

Trump’s request that the president of Ukraine initiate a corruption investigation into Joe Biden and his son Hunter wasn’t incidental. On the contrary, it appears to have been the point of the call, along with an additional request to investigate the origins of the Russian collusion allegations against Trump. Trump brought up the investigations nearly every time he opened his mouth. Zelenskiy responded positively, suggesting he got the point.