It is a bet that investigating private companies and outside financial players will prove more fruitful than directly confronting a White House they expect to resist oversight, they said. Instead, Democrats involved in the planning envision using House investigative powers after November’s midterm elections to scrutinize the administration’s decision-making and examine whether Trump used his power to benefit himself, allies or donors. “We’re not going into this to impeach,” said a senior Democratic aide, describing the thinking among party leaders and committee staff. The focus is on building a body of evidence through investigations that can hold Trump accountable.” This is extremely disingenuous: they’re going to launch numerous investigations that will confirm their bias, and then they’ll impeach.