Facing growing momentum behind a full House impeachment inquiry, President Trump evidently concluded that releasing a memorandum of his phone call on July 25 with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine would quiet the investigative fervor. He could not have been more wrong.
The memorandum, which the White House released Wednesday morning, is far worse than we could have imagined. It demonstrates that Mr. Trump sought multiple favors from a foreign leader for his personal political gain and in doing so violated his solemn oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.
The memorandum gives the game away.