Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

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To the editor:

What Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has made abundantly clear, whether he realizes it or not, is that there is absolutely no valid defense of President Trump.

McConnell’s way to deal with the Senate trial is to keep out any and all who have important answers on Trump’s conduct with Ukraine, including White House acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and others. How does he think Americans will react to this?

If Trump’s motives and conduct were as pure as the snow, then these people would be clamoring to clear the president’s name, and McConnell would be eager to line them up so the nation could hear not only Trump’s defense, but also that the Democrats’ investigation was truly a “witch hunt” and a “hoax.”

Trump has impeached himself, and McConnell’s stance isn’t fooling anyone.

Diane Welch, Cypress

The ONLY reason we were able to get our great USMCA Trade Deal approved was because the Do Nothing Democrats wanted to show that they could approve something productive in light of the fact that all they even think about is impeachment. She knows nothing about the USMCA Deal!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 24, 2019

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Here is Kurt Schlichter's latest column.

Political realism suggests that Jeff Jacoby is not exactly wrong to pooh-pooh the idea that US senators should be expected to be impartial in an impeachment trial (“Lindsey Graham and the impeachment pearl-clutchers,” Opinion, Dec. 18). Yet after quoting the oath that senators will take at the commencement of President Trump’s impeachment trial—“in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of Donald Trump, now pending, I will do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws”—Jacoby simply drops the subject. My question for Jacoby is: Does this oath mean nothing? Or does he now subscribe to the Trumplike belief that words mean anything a given person says they do?

Daniel Penrice

Cambridge

Note from KBJ: Are you just making things up, Daniel? What is your evidence that President Trump believes that "words mean anything a given person says they do"? If anyone believes this, you do.

Pelosi gives us the most unfair trial in the history of the U.S. Congress, and now she is crying for fairness in the Senate, and breaking all rules while doing so. She lost Congress once, she will do it again!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2019

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