Actually Trumps behavior and the accusations against him are exactly grounds for impeachment. Clearly you don't even know what the fuck an impeachment proceeding is. Here's a hint... It's a formal investigation into alleged misconduct. Criminal charges and removal from office are options that can occur after the findings of an impeachment. The impeachment occurs to decide if he committed any crimes or if he was involved in misconduct, not because they know for a fact he committed a crime. So again, maybe you should shut the fuck up because you don't even know what an impeachment is.
Trump is being impeached because several government officials, all highly respected and holding high office, have claimed misconduct in relation to his actions towards Ukraine. That's grounds for an impeachment. This has nothing to do with a Democratic hissy-fit and everything to do with the fact that Trump likely engaged in unethical extortion to have political rivals looked into. Democrats don't like Trump because we've known from the beginning that he was a piece of shit.
"The notion that only criminal conduct can constitute sufficient grounds for impeachment does not comport with either the views of the founders or with historical practice.
[1] Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist 65, described impeachable offenses as arising from "the misconduct of public men, or in other words from the abuse or violation of some public trust."
[3] Such offenses were "
political, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself."
[3] According to this reasoning, impeachable conduct could include behavior that violates an official's duty to the country, even if such conduct is not necessarily a prosecutable offense. Indeed, in the past both houses of Congress have given the phrase "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" a broad reading, finding that impeachable offenses need not be limited to criminal conduct."
Impeachment of Walter L. Nixon, Jr., H.Rept. 101-36 at 5 (1989).
Cole, J. P.; Garvey, T. (October 29, 2015).
"Report No. R44260, Impeachment and Removal"(PDF). Congressional Research Service. pp. 15–16. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. An earlier version from 2005 is at
https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/98-806.pdf.