Impeachment

Impeachment is inherently a political process.  It is not a criminal proceeding, but rather an ability for the legislative branch to check rampant lawlessness in the executive.  There are arguments being made that impeachment isn't worth it, because you will never get the Senate to remove Trump from office.  "That's what 2020 is for" goes the argument.  There is not much of an argument that Trump doesn't deserve to be impeached, rather that it would be politically counterproductive.

I don't buy it.

But I do believe that starting impeachment now, over the Mueller report, wouldn't be helpful.  There are multiple avenues into the Trump Crime Family.  There is the obstruction of justice in the Russia probe. There is the rampant tax evasion and money laundering. They are ongoing violations of the emoluments clause. There is the rampant corruption involved with Mar-A-Lago.  There is the selling of access within the Cabinet.

Investigate it.  Investigate all of it.  Find all the dead bodies, Michael Cohen can help you find them.

Start impeachment hearings in November of this year.  Let them run all winter.  Take every sordid detail of Trump's plutocratic corruption and lay it out before the American people.  Make every Republican Senator and House member defend him. Turn the screws.

Yes, if Trump wins despite all this, we are screwed, but we are screwed anyway if he wins.  Every party that has impeached (or started to impeach in Nixon's case) won the White House in the next election.

Most Americans aren't really paying attention.  They won't be paying attention until the presidential race gets under way.

So, put it off a bit, wait until the political season is in full swing, then air it all out.  Every bit of it.