Should the House bring Impeachment charges against Donald Trump?

Should the House bring Impeachment charges against Donald Trump?
Let's start by reviewing what impeachment is.

In the U.S. the House of Representatives has the sole power of impeachment of a sitting president by a simple majority vote based on stated articles of impeachment. The articles are based on

Only the House can determine what constitutes treason, bribery, high crimes or misdemeanors. They are what the House says they are.

Once impeached the Senate tries the president. The Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts in this case, presides.
Conviction would result from a two thirds vote by the Senate. The president would then be removed from office.
The Senate may also impose other penalties such as barring him from future political office and the president would still be libel for criminal prosecution.
If a two thirds vote is not attained, the president is acquitted.

In the past there have been two impeachments of a sitting president. Both by Republicans against Democrats.
The first was Andrew Johnson, who was accused of high crimes and misdemeanors for basically carrying out Abraham Lincoln's plan of leniency toward the South after the civil war.
He was acquitted.

The second was of Bill Clinton. He was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice resulting from sexual scandals. Many who voted for his impeachment had their own sexual scandals resulting in cries of hypocrisy.
The Senate found that Clinton did not commit perjury or obstruct justice as both charges lacked merit. The main charge was of lying to the Grand Jury. The lying charges were dropped as Clinton's famous "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is" statement was correct as he was not currently having an affair and his statement about not having a sexual relationship was also correct as the question was imprecise as it didn't define what a sexual relationship was. Clinton was truthfully answering that he had never had sexual intercourse as legally defined.

Nixon was never impeached as he resigned before the process could begin as both the Republicans and Democrats agreed that he needed to be removed from office.

So much for that.
Next we'll look at whether Trump should be impeached, but I have to go do something at the moment.

 

On what grounds could the House impeach Trump?

First let's remember that the House and Senate don't have to prove anything to impeach and remove the president from office.
There is no need to bring or prove any criminal action or intent.

So, keeping that in mind what reason(s) might the House find to begin an impeachment hearing?
Let's start with the Mueller report.
1. Mueller found that Trump did not criminally conspire with the Russians, but he did seek to have them help him get elected.

Remember no crime need be proven.
2. Mueller found ten instances of Trump attempting to obscure justice and asked Congress to investigate them.

The following are some other proposed resolutions for impeachment:
3. His oath of office makes him responsible for the deeds of his appointees and for his responsible management of his office.

4. He has failed to protect the electorate by refusing to believe the Russians interfered with the election.
5. He may have violated the Emoluments Clause.
6. He disclosed classified information to Russia.
7. He has not upheld the moral tradition of the presidency.
8. He has undermined the freedom of the press.
9. He has undermined the independence of the federal judiciary.
10. He has associated the Presidency with White Nationalism, Neo-Nazism and Hatred" and is "Inciting Hatred and Hostility.
11. Michael Cohen has implicated him in witness tampering, campaign finance violations, threats against his family, and other charges.
12. Perfidy

13.

And that's all I can think of at the moment

Again no proof of criminal activity need by proven in any of the above, only that due to just one of these things he is unfit for office.

 

The dangers of Impeachment for the parties.

First the Democrats.
To start with if the House were to impeach it would be largely due to the Democrats. Remember the Democrats have no experience when it comes to impeachment, they have never initiated one against a president.
On the plus side they wouldn't loose any of Trump's base support, they'll never get that anyway. It's very clear that his base will support him come hell or high water.
The main peril lies in the Independent vote. Will the Independents view this as an attempt to remove a legitimate president and not swing their votes in a Democratic direction, or even be persuaded to vote Republican? At the least will some Independent votes vote Independent instead of Democratic?
As some Independents like to point out the Democrats don't have a perfect candidate so they'll vote Independent, or not vote at all. They seem to feel that Trump is better than in imperfect Democrat.

Now the Republicans.
If Trump were to be impeached, the Senate, dominated by Republicans will not vote to remove him from office. Only one Republican, Mitt Romney, has even spoken out against Trump since the release of the Muller report, and he's too scared to do anything but talk.
So would the public support the Democrats and punish the Republicans at the polls for failing to Remove Trump after he's impeached?

 

The plus side of Impeachment for the parties.

It's basically opposite of the above.
I think impeachment slightly favors the Democrats. When Clinton was impeached his poll numbers went up, so it seemed to help the Democrats.
But in the next election the Republicans took the presidency, admittedly after the Florida fiasco, so the Republicans weren't punished for their impeachment of Clinton.

Would the Democrats do any worse?

 

The effect on the nation.

If Trump is Impeached by the House, he will not be removed from office by the senate...at least at this time and in the foreseeable future.
So why Impeach?

Trump is facing some serious charges. If he were not president he would be in jail at this moment. The DOJ and Mueller have made this clear. They will not indict a sitting president for any crime.
By DOJ standards the president is not bound by the rule of law. He can do anything he wants.
Mueller knows this so he handed off the charges of obstruction, at least ten of them, to the House as he can't do anything about them.
Both the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General are protecting Trump.

So if an Impeachment hearing is not held all future presidents will become above the law by precedent. They will be free to cavort with foreign powers, obstruct justice, lie to the public, etc., etc. with no fear of being held accountable.