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

Here is Kurt Schlichter's latest column.

Everyone loves a winner. But we expect our victors to win fair and square. We recoil when we learn that a player was taking steroids or corking their bat. We hated it when the Rams went to the Super Bowl over the Saints on a famous noncall in the 2019 NFC championship game. In all these cases, all but the least objective fans viewed this as winning by gaining an unfair advantage.

Yet when it comes to politics, too many just look away. We see all kinds of voter suppression schemes, outrageous gerrymandering, and spreading of false information. While the Mueller report was unable to string together enough facts to conclude that the president had clearly conspired with the Russians, Donald Trump clearly gained an unfair advantage from their efforts to spread misinformation through social media. While it can never be known for certain, it is highly likely that this campaign changed some minds—enough for Trump to win just enough key states to put him over the top. So it is not unreasonable to conclude that the 2016 election was stolen.

To me, a central missing argument in the Ukrainian affair is that the president was once again trying to gain an unfair advantage, to "steal” yet another election. Why are so many people willing to excuse this?

Gerry Katz

Brookline

Note from KBJ: Donald Trump won fair and square, Gerry. All the cheating was done by Hillary Clinton, which makes it just that she lost.

Where’s the Fake Whistleblower?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 14, 2019

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Here is Ann Coulter's latest column.

Regarding “Fate of ‘Dreamers’ now in hands of high court” (Page 1, Nov. 12): The reason that a case weighing the legality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is now before the U.S. Supreme Court is simple. The 45th president has an ongoing animus toward his predecessor, and simply wants to undo as many Obama-era initiatives, from the Affordable Care Act to our participation in the Paris Climate Accord to DACA, as possible. It is tragic that the so-called Dreamers, who were brought to the U.S. illegally as young children by their parents, have been put into a hellish legal limbo by a vindictive and nativist president.

They are poised to become important contributing members of our society, and are law-abiding and dignified. Those same adjectives cannot be applied to the current Oval Office occupant.

Josephine DiCostanzo, Burlingame

Note from KBJ: Stop projecting your criminality onto President Trump, Josephine.

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 13, 2019

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