Impeachment is risky, but transcript supports media’s Ukraine reporting

Nancy Pelosi’s giant step toward impeachment, which she resisted for so long, may well backfire against the Democrats.

But by any fair analysis, the transcript released yesterday of President Trump’s call with the Ukraine leader did not help his cause.

This is not a partisan observation, as I’ve repeatedly said and written that the media coverage of Trump is relentlessly negative and often unfair. And as I noted yesterday, the press has so badly overhyped so many Trump controversies, large and small, that there is a collective numbness to the...