President Donald Trump perfectly illustrated two things during his astonishing moment on the world stage Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.

Foremost, Trump made clear he must be impeached to protect the nation against a leader either so corrupt or so imbecilic as to side with an adversary who has attacked us once and threatens to do it again.

And his stunning act of treachery will almost certainly make the midterm elections a referendum on his imminent impeachment. For a man who has drowned his presidency in an ocean of lies and malfeasance, being able to create a single event that eclipses all of his previous blunders is a feat unparalleled in modern political history.

The day after his Finnish Waterloo, Trump tried to backpedal on the disaster, making it even worse with his obvious and poorly thought out lies about having misspoke. With zero credibility, he only makes the case for impeachment more compelling.

Trump has moved beyond his marginally dangerous malfeasance and become an imminent threat to America and its allies.

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