Dear Mr. Trump,

At long last, you will get the infamy you deserve. The public will be able to see honorable witnesses – lifetime government servants, war heroes – testify about how you distorted US foreign policy for personal, political gain; about how you put in danger the lives of Ukrainians fighting Russian aggression; about how you subverted the interests of democracy and undermined the State Department; about how your cowardly supporters tried to hide the shameful facts of your conduct.

Your supposed defense, your talking points, argue that the witnesses didn’t hear the policy you implemented directly from your mouth. That might be true. The people who spoke directly to you might not testify because you’ve ordered them not to. The purported reason for your order – “absolute immunity” – has absolutely no basis in law. The president is not above the law, and it’s yet another abuse of your power to order people to defy lawful subpoenas. But there’s tons of evidence to establish the truth of what the witnesses who testify will say.

Meanwhile, you entertain another strongman thug, Erdogan, in the White House, after allowing him into Syria to butcher those he doesn’t like. There’s blood on your hands and his, and when you shake his hand, the colors will match perfectly.

Just like you didn’t and don’t give a damn about our ally, the Ukrainians, you didn’t and don’t give a damn about our ally, the Kurds.

You are decidedly the most unfit for the presidency to occupy the Oval Office. You make Richard Nixon look like a saint. I never thought I’d be able to write a sentence like that about any president, but you’ve made the writing sadly easy.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger