[DugwayDuke]

adorno wrote: “There would still need to be an underlying criminal offense in order for Trump to be impeached.”

No, impeachment and removal from office, while different things, still are political, not criminal, actions.

[adorno]

'Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.'

Political or not, they would still have to prove one of the above, and there isn't anything of the kind in anything that Trump has done. Those things above are the kinds of "crimes" that the president must've committed in order to be impeached.