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Democrats are weighing articles of impeachment against President Trump with an extensive list of alleged wrongdoing that grows by the day.

Since taking the majority in January, Democrats have built an all-encompassing search involving more than five dozen investigations into the president’s past and present behavior, the actions of his administration, his personal finances, and his family.

Trump earlier this year accused Democrats of “the highest level of presidential harassment” in history.

The party responded by ramping up their scrutiny.

The chief Trump investigator in the House, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, said the expanded search serves a specific purpose: to determine whether to recommend articles of impeachment against President Trump.

The New York Democrat announced several new investigations over the August recess, adding to the inventory yearsold allegations Trump violated campaign finance laws by approving hush money for Playboy model Karen McDougal and porn star Stormy Daniels during his campaign in order to keep them quiet about trysts.

Nadler also requested other House panels investigating Trump share information with his committee to help him determine whether to bring articles of impeachment to the House floor, which he said could happen as early as this fall.

Leading Nadler’s expansive list is an investigation into whether Trump attempted to obstruct special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged collusion between the Russians and Trump’s 2016 campaign. Mueller said the investigation did not yield evidence of collusion but he did not make a determination about obstruction.

Nadler is now battling the Trump administration in court over access to documents and witnesses, including former White House counsel Don McGahn, that Democrats believe will prove their claim that Trump illegally attempted to thwart Mueller’s investigation.

On Friday, Nadler added another investigation to the list.

The Judiciary panel, he announced, will team up with the House Oversight Committee to investigate recent reports that Trump told Vice President Mike Pence to stay at the Trump International Golf Links and Hotel in Doonbeg, Ireland, even though the resort is 180 miles away from meetings with government officials in Dublin.

Nadler said Trump’s action is “a potential violation” of the emoluments clause in the Constitution that prohibit a president from profiting from the federal government outside of his salary.

Earlier this week, Nadler said his panel will also examine Trump’s push to hold next year’s G-7 summit at Trump’s golf resort in South Florida, which Democrats believe constitutes an even more egregious emoluments violation. White House officials said the Doral, Florida, resort is among many places under consideration for hosting the summit.

Rep. Doug Collins, of Georgia, who is the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, accused Democrats of abusing their power in the majority to try to take down the president.

“Democrats gained nothing by targeting @RealDonaldTrump’s past, so they want to preemptively investigate the future of a G7 summit that hasn’t even been planned,” Collins tweeted.

The Judiciary committee has opened a new investigation into reports that Trump offered pardons to Homeland Security officials who he encouraged to ignore legal obstacles and construct a southern border wall and to block illegal immigrants from entering the United States by telling U.S. judges there is no capacity to hold them.

Nadler issued a subpoena to acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan to provide testimony and documents related to the matter, setting off a new battle with the White House.

The number of investigations into Trump and his administration go far beyond the Judiciary Committee.

Six committees are investigating President Trump for a variety of alleged offenses, including collusion with the Russians, which was debunked by Mueller’s two-year investigation.

The House Intelligence Committee, which initiated the congressional investigation into alleged collusion with the Russians, is still investigating the matter.

The panel earlier this summer subpoenaed Trump’s 2016 Deputy Campaign Manager Rick Gates and former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn “as part of its investigation efforts by Russia and other foreign entities to influence the U.S. political process during and since the 2016 U.S. election.”

Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said the panel “is continuing to examine the deep counterintelligence concerns raised in Special Counsel Mueller’s report” and needs to interview Gates and Flynn, whose testimony is part of the Mueller report.

The Intelligence panel has also branched out to investigating whether the White House worked to “to skew and demand politically-motivated changes” to a State Department official’s testimony at a June hearing about climate change, which Schiff called an “urgent national security issue.”

The House Financial Services Committee and the Intelligence Committee, meanwhile, are jointly seeking the financial records of Trump and his family from Deutsche Bank and Capital One in a quest to reveal Russian money laundering and other crimes.

Democrats have justified the endless inquiry by accusing the president of turning his presidency into a criminal enterprise.

“Look, we’ve got a number of committees that are looking at a number of different categories of misconduct,” Rep. Jamie Raskin told MSNBC this week. “ And what we’re confronted with now is that the president is basically converted the presidency into a money-making operation and instrument of self-enrichment.”

The president’s personal attorney, Jay Sekulow, told Fox News the Russian collusion charges were fraudulently raised for political reasons by the Democrats, who he believes are perpetuating the fraud with more and more investigations.

“The fact of the matter, yes, it’s presidential harassment,” Sekulow said.