WASHINGTON, D.C. Sept. 27 (DPI) – Last Thursday The Washington Post reported on a whistleblower complaint from an anonymous national security official, something about the president making a promise to another nation’s leader.

A day later, The Wall Street Journal, using its own sources, reported that the complaint centered around a July telephone conversation between Trump and the president of Ukraine. Trump, it turns out, suggested to the Ukraine leader that his country investigate the son of Joe Biden for corruption, while Trump at the same time held up military aid to the country.

Trump a few days later admitted to the substance of the conversation, but said he had been holding up military aid because he wanted other NATO countries to help pay for it.

House Democrats, for months stuck between the desire to launch impeachment proceedings but fearing its political consequences, finally took action: Within five days of the first report House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced just such proceedings, even though a Republican-controlled Senate stills seems unlikely to support it, and the 2020 election looms.

Adding to the dramatic week was a nearly instantaneous flow of written commentary – political observers explaining why Trump’s behavior was shockingly illegal, violating every tenet of his inauguration day vows – Trump was, once again, putting his own personal interests ahead of those of the American People.

Among the standout commentary: Anne Applebaum of The Washington Post, explaining the political culture and military situation in Ukraine; David Ignatius of The Washington Post, explaining that, while previous Trump behavior was bad, this kind of self-serving stunt was over-the-top as a basis for impeachment. Max Boot, a moderate conservative supportive of some Trump policies but long appalled by his conduct, declared this latest news broke the dam. Then there was a midweek column by The New York Times’s London-based writer Roger Cohen, who enjoyed the parallels between Trump and British nationalist Boris Johnson.

All of it helped provide context to a public weary of the manufactured reality-show drama of the last 30 months. Many had grown confused about what was important – and what wasn’t.

But the column that drove home that Trump was finally facing a Constitutional challenge was from Gerald F. Seib of The Wall Street Journal, who laid out the politics of impeachment.

The bottom line is that, right now, no Republicans have yet broken with Trump on the Ukraine Affair – but they are likely to, when more evidence of wrongdoing emerges and it becomes clear that Trump will no chance at re-election. Dumping Trump now would enable centrist Republicans to field another candidate. And already, Politico reports that twice as many Republicans voters support impeachment than a week ago.

Overall, it was a very good week for independent journalism that serves the American people.