Donald Trump’s impeachment was set in motion after a whistleblower report came to light complaining about the inappropriate nature of Trump’s July 25th call with Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine.

During that call, Trump leveraged the threat of withholding U.S. aid funding to Ukraine in order to get an investigation into alleged corruption of Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

Many had fixated on one aspect of the timing of the call: it came just one day after Robert Mueller testified in front of Congress about his report, a testimony that was widely seen as a dud. Perhaps Trump felt emboldened and newly vindicated by Mueller’s testimony.

But now we have a new clue as to what may have inspired the call to Zelensky: a Fox News poll that Trump had been touting that very morning:

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TL;DR - Trump saw a poll on FNC on the morning of 7/25/19 that showed Joe Biden with a pretty commanding lead (10 points). And then, a little over one hour later, Trump calls Ukrainian President Zelensky to ask for a “favor” and then of course, after that, aid to Ukraine is promptly suspended.

Simply put, Trump freaked the fuck out over a poll. Yet again, as it has countless times in the past, his impulsiveness got the better of him…..and in this case, led to his impeachment.