Many grounds already exist for impeachment or a post-term prosecution.
Pre-election high crimes and misdemeanors:
1. His 34 state court felony convictions.
2. His election interference in Georgia in 2020.
3. His classified documents hoarding and refusal to turn over.
4. His January 6 infractions.
5. His role in having fake electors appointed.
6. His running for office when he participated in an insurrection.
7. Multiple rapes.
8. Trump University fraud.
Second term high crimes and misdemeanors:
1. His violation of the Impoundment Act with executive orders.
2. His violation of privacy laws by sharing Social Security data with Musk.
3. His violation of privacy laws by sharing tax data with immigration enforcement.
4. His violation of civil rights including free speech by deporting legal immigrants for expressing their opinions.
5. His violation of civil rights in his anti-DEI campaign including destruction of minority and LGBT and female websites, censoring books, and threatening colleges and schools that fail to follow suit.
6. Extortion of law firms, colleges, and businesses in a campaign of vengeance for acts that weren't legal wrongs.
7. Violation of civil rights to individuals targeted for vengeance.
8. Disregard for court orders constituting contempt of court and creating a constitutional crisis.
9. The war crime of aggression for threatening invasions of Greenland and the Panama Canal for no legally cognizable reason.
10. Violation of civil rights for wrongfully invoking the Alien Enemies Act and not providing the due process to which people are entitled even then.
11. Violation of civil rights by sending people to a torture prison without due process.
12. Violation of civil rights by detaining people who were lawful tourists for no legitimate reason.
13. Conspiracy to commit insider trading.
14. Violation of federal law by marketing Tesla.
15. Inducing his doctor to give false reports to the public about his health.
Not high crimes and misdemeanors but troubling:
1. Starting a trade war when neither statutes nor the constitution nor treaties authorized it (although possibly extortion).
2. Attempting to create and remove regulations without Administrative Procedural Act approval.
3. J6 pardons.
4. NATO treaty violation in threatening Denmark-Greenland.
5. Improperly turning tables on Ukraine.
6. Incessant fraud on the American people with a constant stream of lies.
7. Breaching union-labor agreements with federal civil servants.
8. Violating federal law re firing inspector generals and JAG officers with an intent to facilitate more violations of the law.
9. Violation of government contracting laws related to Musk benefits.
10. Receiving illegal emoluments in private vacations.
11. Threatening federal judges without a basis for doing so.
12. Threatening to unconstitutionally run for a third term.
13. Attempting to abolish birthright citizenship.
14. Threatening to deport U.S. citizens.
15. Endorsing and praising dictators and fascists.
16. Threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act without good cause.
17. Eliminating the Office of Legal Counsel to screen legislation for legality.
18. In general, breaching his duty to faithfully execute the laws.
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