The point of impeachment isn’t to punish the president, but to p

Avalon - The point of impeachment isn’t to punish the president, but to protect the political system. Offenses that endanger the system - that undermine elections, that corrupt the functions of government, that break constitutional boundaries.
Trump’s plan was explicitly to force a statement from the president of Ukraine, saying that his political rival, Joe Biden, was under investigation for corruption. If the scheme had worked - and it nearly did - the election itself would have been compromised. I am certain that these actions of the president are indeed high crimes.