Dear Mr. Trump,

At first, you wanted to hide the topic of the meeting at Trump Tower between your highest campaign staff, including your campaign manager (the accused bank-fraud artist and tax cheater Manafort), your son, and your son-in-law. Thus, you dictated a false news release, saying that the purpose of the meeting was to discuss adoptions, as if that was important enough for your campaign to tie up its highest echelon.

People don’t make up lies unless they fear the truth. You knew it was wrong for your campaign to seek help from a foreign government. It’s a crime. You don’t have to call it “collusion,” and whether you received the help you sought is beside the point.

18 USC 1349 says that “any person who attempts or conspires to commit any offense under this chapter shall be subject to the same penalties as those prescribed for the offense, the commission of which was the object of the attempt or conspiracy.” I.e., the attempt itself is a crime subject to the same punishment as if the intended crime had been consummated. And if your crew at Trump Tower agreed among themselves to receive campaign help from a foreign government in the form of dirt on your opponent and took any steps in furtherance of that agreement – they did by attending the meeting – they are guilty of conspiracy. It’s clear that the Mueller investigation will include an indictment of those who attended the meeting, including your son, whose emails show he gleefully intended to obtain dirt on your opponent.

Now, you’ve admitted that very fact, that the meeting’s purpose was to get dirt on your opponent. Whether it’s done all the time, as you claim, it’s still a crime.

Finally, Sir, you still claim you didn’t know about the meeting. If it meeting was innocent, why do you try to distance yourself from it? The answer is obvious; you knew then and know now that the meeting was against the law.

Get yourself a better lawyer than that loudmouth Giuliani.

Bruce J. Berger