Trump has issued an unprecedented order to publicly release classified materials--selected material targeting individuals who Trump is trying to smear--that are part criminal investigations that have not yet been concluded. This material, which includes emails by and from those individuals and selected portions of FISA warrants, will not be redacted (which will reveal the secret sources of the FBI and the DOJ) or scrubbed for purely personal information that has nothing to do with the investigation, which is, for all kinds of good reasons, the standard practice.
Trump has the legal right to do this, as he is the final arbiter of what information is classified or unclassified.
But this is the latest attempt by Trump to obstruct justice--out in the open and in public--and is certainly, without a doubt, grounds for impeachment. Unless, of course, we have a situation where a President under investigation is actively partnering with members of the House, who have the responsibility to bring impeachment charges, to obstruct that investigation. That's ANOTHER impeachable offense.
FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General in charge of the Mueller investigation Rod Rosenstein have been attacked for months and threatened with impeachment (oh, the irony) by GOP Congressmen and Trump co-conspirators Dennis Nunes and Mark Meadows for not turning over this classified information.
On May 1 Rosenstein issued this warning to the Trump Gang:
“I can tell you that there have been people that have been making threats against me privately and publicly for some time, and I think they should understand by now the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted. We’re going to do what’s required by the rule of law, and any kind of threats that anybody makes are not going to affect the way we do our job."
Trump has finally issued his order. Will Christopher Wray and Rod Rosenstein finally live up to their oaths to uphold the Constitution over the interests of the President and their party and provoke a Constitutional crisis? Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff hinted yesterday that a revolt is at hand, but we have waited nearly two years for Republicans within the government to stand up for the Constitution.
We'll know very soon whether we still have a Department of Justice or an FBI.