No, Trump Isn’t Too Stupid to Be Impeached

After a month of shifting defenses over impeachment—from “there was no quid pro quo” to “we do that all the time—get over it!”—it’s finally come to this: pleading incompetence. Don’t worry, the Wall Street Journal suggests in its lead editorial, the president is too much of a bungler to pull off any high crimes.

“It may turn out that while Mr. Trump wanted a quid-pro-quo policy ultimatum toward Ukraine, he was too inept to execute it,” the WSJ opines. That’s supposed to let the president off the hook; after all,...