Dear Loser-in-the-White House,

Loser, because you won the 2016 election only by asking Russia for help (which you did publicly) and coordinating your campaign with Russia’s campaign to help you.

Loser, because you’re now hiding 24 emails in the possession of the Office of Management and Budget that lay out your corrupt motives for delaying military aid to Ukraine. People whose conduct is “perfect” don’t need to hide the evidence. They make the evidence of their supposed innocence available immediately.

Loser, because there’s no such thing as an absolute “presidential privilege.” Like Nixon, like Hitler, you believe that whatever you do is beyond reproach, that actual laws are to be ignored, that morality is something only weak people believe in.

Loser, because your pathetic Senate Republicans have prevented any trial of your deeds, favoring a cover-up, because your cult followers care nothing about true democracy, because they’re hypocrites,

Loser, because ANY of the potential Democratic candidates against you this year are going to win, hands down, and make you a one-and-gone.  Biden will beat you, or Sanders will beat you, or Warren will beat you, or Buttigieg will beat you, or Yang will beat you, or Bloomberg will beat you, or Klobuchar will beat you. Or Bennett or Patrick. Even those who dropped out of the race would easily have beaten you.

So you can pretend you’re earning a great victory when the Senate acquits you of abuse of power. The clock is ticking until you’re kicked out of the White House.

And then we’ll look at those 24 emails and everything else you’ve hidden.

And then decent federal prosecutors will know what to do.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger