Noah Feldman, Columnist

Whistle-Blower Memo Shows Impeachable Crimes Beyond Trump-Ukraine Call

There’s clear quid pro quo, knowledge of wrongdoing and a cover-up.

September 26, 2019 at 4:12 PM UTC

Corrected

September 26, 2019 at 6:22 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."

This is no longer just about one phone call.
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The whistle-blower complaint against Donald Trump, in just a few pages, establishes the evidence for a quid pro quo between Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy — unfreezing aid payments in exchange for investigating Joe Biden and digging into an unsupported fringe theory about the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion allegation.

Second, it provides strong evidence that some in the Trump administration understood that Trump’s call to Zelenskiy was wrong and potentially criminal — and, third, that they took steps to cover it up.