That's what happens when things are orchestrated. Float it out a guy willing to be the anonymous whistle blower. Have the whistle blower go to Schiff and others to polish up the complaint. Work it outwards from there. The story that the "inquiry" developed was more intriguing in regards to the how, not the what in question.
I suppose it should be pointed out that no crime needs to be identified to impeach and convict a president. For more on this topic see the Robert Dixon, DOJ opinion , re indictability of the President. I gave a link to Dixon's opinion, it's very interesting, in a post near the end of the Impeachment Inquiry thread. The articles of impeachment will be known probably by early next year, if not before.
Ah, so lets impeach the guy for no crime. That will do wonders for the future whenever the opposing party wants to usurp the President because they didn't like that he became the President. What a lovely precedent.
I agree with you, identifying a crime would be important. Regardless there is little chance he will be convicted; yet I am sanguine enough to believe there's little chance of his re-election if any faith at all in the polls can be had. I'm guessing that when the Articles come out there will be crimes. But in Dixon's tome the opinion is expressed that there are derelictions of duty, and other acts, that although not codified in statutory law as crimes are nevertheless worthy of impeachment. For example, bribery is a statutory crime, but withholding, for personal gain, military support voted by Congress to one of our allies under attack may not be covered by statutory law -- who would have contemplated that such a thing could ever happen! The American people, nevertheless, may see such as impeachable, or, at the minimum, worthy of rejection at the polls. Personally, I think there is overwhelming evidence of bribery here and that that will be one of the Articles. We will have to wait and see. The bottom line, if we've been paying sufficient attention, is that our President is totally dependent on Russian money for his livelihood outside of what public office affords him, and so he can ill afford to do anything that might signal to his Russian masters that he is anything but loyal. At the same time, he must be terrified of losing the next election which could subject him to charges that could put him in jail. He is a desperate man, a victim of his own lies and misadventures. He is surely hoping that the statute will run while he is in office and another 4 years will be enough to eliminate most of the charges. But hanging over his head like the Sword of Damocles is the strong possibility that the Courts would toll the Statute. I am not a gambling man, but I wouldn't give you two cents for his chances. One of the few things that is sure to save him is a massive heart attack. And the stress brought on by contemplating his friend's, Bibi Netanyahu, situation may be enough to precipitate it. Donald Trump has been quoted as saying the worst mistake in his presidency was appointing Jeff Sessions as Attorney General. Trump obviously has a poor grasp of his moral frailty. If that was a "worst" mistake -- and it could only be viewed as such by a corrupt president -- then his lifetime error of running for public office must be, by comparison, monumental.