Dear Illegitimate President,

How fitting that you should be calling the shots to the spineless Republicans in the Senate as your impeachment trial approaches.

It’s like John Wilkes Booth sitting as the judge in the trial of John Wilkes Booth.

First, you’ve directed Moscow Mitch to prevent the witnesses with the most knowledge – Mike Mulvaney and John Bolton – from testifying. It’s like saying that eyewitnesses who saw Booth hold up the gun to President Lincoln’s head and fire would be disallowed in Booth’s trial.

Second, you’ve directed Gutless Graham and his brainwashed brethren to declare that they won’t listen to any evidence, that they are ready, willing, and able to violate their oaths as jurors to judge the impeachment fairly. It’s like saying that the jurors in Booth’s trial Booth must be only those who promise beforehand to acquit.

Third, you’ve prevented any documents of your misdeeds to be produced, notwithstanding Congress’s constitutional duty to act as a check on the Executive Branch. You’ve ordered the State Department, the Defense Department, the Office of Management and Budget, the Vice President’s office to stonewall. It’s like ordering the doctor who pronounced President Lincoln dead by gunshot not to testify about the cause of death in Booth’s trial.

When the day comes that the Executive Branch comes into the power of a reasonable and fair administration, the documents will be discovered. I’m sure you’re now planning to break even more laws by having all such documents destroyed.

When the day comes that the Attorney General is not your sycophant, and you are no longer in the Oval Office, you will be indicted. I’m sure you’re now drafting your own pardon and those of your family and complicit traitors.

Yet, you will be held accountable.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger