Thread by @tburages

Good afternoon, boys and girls. It's time for - you guessed it - the Trump High Crimes Playoffs.

For each of polls below, pick which item you think is *MOST IMPEACHABLE*.

(IOW, some of these egregious acts by Trump are disgusting but not as likely to lead to his removal.)

Which is more impeachable?

1. Persistent pattern of non-transparency

2. Absolute Obstruction of Congress

Which is more impeachable?

1. Wielding the full formidable power of the U.S. Presidency to force Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 U.S. election.

2. Cancelling a Denmark visit because they won’t sell him Greenland.

Which is more impeachable?

1. Harassing the Attorney General for not “protecting” him from an investigation.

2. Refusal to defend the United States from an enemy attack.

Which is more impeachable?

1. Declaring a willingness to collude with Russia again to win an election.

2. Diverting military funding to border wall.

1. Appointing unqualified federal judges

2. Coordination with Russia to win the 2016 election

Which is more impeachable?

1. 900 more family separations after he said the practice was ended

2. Illegal coordination between the Trump Campaign and the NRA

Which is more impeachable?

1. Enthusiastic support for Senate candidate Roy Moore, who was credibly accused of serial child molestation

2. Ordering Don McGahn to file a false document to obstruct an investigation

Which is more impeachable?

1. Ordering Don McGahn to fire Robert Mueller

2. Using "acting" Cabinet officials in order to bypass the Senate confirmation process

Which is more impeachable?

1. Ordering Federal workers to break the law to build his Wall.And promising pardons if they are caught.

2. Plan to overturn the Flores Agreement

Which is more impeachable?

1. Perjury

2. Comments about "shithole countries"

Which is more impeachable?

1. Gaslighting the public instead tending to a real emergency (Alabama Hurricane error)

2. Suborning perjury from Michael Cohen

Which is more impeachable?

1. Mocking a disabled reporter

2. Using the power of the Presidency to persuade Manafort and Gates to lie to investigators

Which is more impeachable?

1. Using the power of the Presidency to persuade Michael Cohen to lie to investigators about hush money payments

2. Refusing to take in hurricane survivors from Bahamas

Which is more impeachable?

1. Harming endangered species

2. Campaign Finance Fraud: Paying hush money to Stormy Daniels

Which is more impeachable?

1. Campaign finance fraud: Karen McDougal

2. Endangering the planet by hiding the facts about climate change

Which is more impeachable?

1. Using the office of President to tamper with a jury

2. Extortion of Joe Scarborough & Mika Brzezinski

Which is more impeachable?

1. Obstruction of Justice: Asking the FBI Director to end an investigation into Michael Flynn

2. Rolling back the Clean Water Act

Which is more impeachable?

1. Repeatedly suggesting he could serve a third term as President

2. Attempting to limit the Special Counsel investigation to future interference only

Which is more impeachable?

1. Daily bullyingtweets

2. Subverting the Department of Justice

Which is more impeachable?

1. Repeatedly disparaging a U.S. war hero and senator after his death

2. Firing Comey because of “that Russia thing” and bragging to Kremlin officials about it

Which is more impeachable?

1. Attacks on the free press

2. Opening federal land for drilling

Which is more impeachable?

1. Instituting American state media propaganda

2. Holding a Navajo code talkers event underneath a portrait of Andrew Jackson and ridiculing Pocahontas/Warren.

Which is more impeachable?

1. Amplifying conspiracy theories

2. The never-ending deluge of lies

Which is more impeachable?

1. Human Rights Abuses at the border

2. Holding authoritarian-style Cabinet meetings for members to publicly praise him

Which is more impeachable?

1. Separating children from their parents

2. Extorting NOAA employees to give a false hurricane report

Which is more impeachable?

1. Laziness

2. Trump internment camps

Which is more impeachable?

1. Allowing Russian state media - but not U.S. media - to cover an Oval Office meeting

2. Exploding the U.S. budget deficit

Which is more impeachable?

1. Betrayal in Helsinki

2. Decades of Financial Crimes

Which is more impeachable?

1. Using the U.S. State Department for dirty political operations

2. Recklessly threatening nuclear war

Which is more impeachable?

1. Kushner. Just Kushner.

2. Continuously working on behalf of Putin to remove Russian sanctions

Which is more impeachable?

1. Helping the Saudis whitewash the murder of Jamal Khashoggi

2. Diverting FEMA funds to support anti-immigrant agenda

Which is more impeachable?

1. Promoting fake videos to slander Jim Acosta and Nancy Pelosi

2. Disclosing highly classified intelligence to Russian officials, thus requiring the U.S. to exfiltrate a key asset

Which is more impeachable?

1. Secret deal to provide nuclear technology to the Saudis

2. Putting NRA campaign donations ahead of American lives

Which is more impeachable?

1. Rhetoric that provokes violence and bloodshed

2. Regularly using insecure cellphones despite being advised that spies are listening

Which is more impeachable?

1. Reckless and unnecessary trade wars

2. Financial disclosure fraud while in office

Which is more impeachable?

1. Directing Bill Barr to investigate those who were investigating Trump campaign

2. Not immediately rejecting Putin’s demand to deliver Michael McFaul to Russian authorities for interrogation

Which is more impeachable?

1. Secretive meetings with Vladimir Putin

2. Conspiring with Fox to publish lies about the death of a DNC staffer

Which is more impeachable?

1. Intentional and serial stoking of racial tensions

2. Gutting the Department of State

Which is more impeachable?

1. Politicization of security clearances

2. Intentionally undermining public trust in elections

Which is more impeachable?

1. Violation of the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments clause

2. Punishing CNN by calling on supporters to boycott its parent company

Which is more impeachable?

1. Stealing Power of the Purse from Congress

2. Threatening Amazon,causing shares to drop 7.4%

Which is more impeachable?

1. Expressing a desire to violate multiple constitutional amendments

2. Taking a $30,000 gift from the Attorney General

Which is more impeachable?

1. Damaging America’s reputation

2. Directing Jeff Sessions to reverse his recusal and prosecute Hillary Clinton

Which is more impeachable?

1. Intervening in FBI headquarters project to protect his hotel revenue

2. Continuous violations of the Presidential Records Act

Which is more impeachable?

1. Directing Jeff Sessions as Attorney General to investigate his political enemies

2. Overturning Security Clearance denials for individuals deemed a threat to national security

Which is more impeachable?

1. Demanding a personal loyalty oath from James Comey

2. Lying – and directing aides to lie - about Trump Tower Moscow

Which is more impeachable?

1. Encouraging officials and lobbyists to curry his favor by spending money at his properties

2. Allowing unbridled Hatch Act violations

Which is more impeachable?

1. Refusing to condemn white supremacists at Charlottesville’s “Unite the Right” rally

2. Nepotism

Which is more impeachable?

1. Targeting a religion in an unconstitutional travel ban

2. Politically motivatedfirings and prosecutions of all high-level officials who investigated Russia’s attack on U.S. sovereignty

Which is more impeachable?

1. Response to Hurricane Maria

2. Failing to defend American citizens after they were assaulted by the Turkish president's thugs in Washington D.C.

Which is more impeachable?

1. Extorting a senator to vote for ACA repeal

2. Attempting to add an unconstitutional citizenship question to the census

Which is more impeachable?

1. Profiting off the Presidency

2. Using the DOJ to attempt to block a merger in order to punish CNN

Which is more impeachable?

1. Cabinet of Corruption

2. Hiding threat of White Terrorism

1. Aiding Russia by intimidating United States intelligence professionals

2. Stripping science expertise from government

Which is more impeachable?

1. Using the U.S. military to raise revenue at Trump Turnberry

2. History of sexual assault

Which is more impeachable?

1. Allowing Saudi Arabia to formulate U.S. foreign policy

2. Politicization of the military

Which is more impeachable?

1. Politicizing U.S. Intelligence

2. Damaging relationships with longstanding U.S. allies

Which is more impeachable?

1. Attacks on U.S. Intelligence agencies

2. Withdrawing the U.S. from world leadership role

[LAST Q]

Which is more impeachable?

1. Advocating for Putin at G7 while Putin wages his “Special War” on the United States

2. Embracing Russian propaganda