Unless something changes dramatically in the next few days, the likelihood of Donald Trump being impeached seems more likely than ever.  

And as Politico reports, Trumps comments over the weekend “just poured rocket fuel on the impeachment fire.”

As he departed the White House on Sunday, Trump admitted that he talked about Joe Biden on a call with the president of Ukraine.  

That remark coupled with the fact that the White House refuses to release the whistleblower report to Congress means impeachment is coming.    From Politico Playbook:

“Unlike the Byzantine Russiagate allegations, the latest charge — that the president repeatedly tried to get a foreign leader seeking military aid to investigate a political opponent — is not hard to understand. It’s about the actions of Trump himself, not his aides or former campaign nobodies. At this point, the facts are pretty much in the open and agreed to: The president has practically admitted he discussed Biden with Ukraine’s president, and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been open about pressing the Ukrainians to investigate Biden’s son Hunter. Now it’s up to Congress to figure out how to proceed.“

Meanwhile, fence-sitting Democrats have apparently been moved by the latest allegations. From The New York Times:

[I]nterviews with more than a dozen Democratic lawmakers this weekend made clear that they believed the latest allegations had the potential to be singularly incriminating, with the potential to advance the impeachment drive just as it appeared to be losing steam. Not only do the allegations suggest that Mr. Trump was using the power of his office to extract political gains from a foreign power, they argued, but his administration is actively trying once again to prevent Congress from finding out what happened.

At issue is the possibility that the Trump administration withheld money approved by Congress for information on Joe Biden and his son. Meanwhile the New York Times reports from Kiev that senior Ukrainian officials said “they were blindsided over the summer when they heard the United States would withhold security assistance to the country.“