The Mueller report’s investigation of the 2016 election, delivered to Congress and the people, identified 10 instances of possible obstruction of justice related to President Donald Trump.

Trump, as “Individual 1,” is an unindicted co-conspirator in an election fraud to which his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has pleaded guilty and is serving time in jail.

And now, there is the “perfect call” to Ukraine leaders urging them to dig up dirt on Joe Biden in exchange for defensive arms against the minions of Vladimir Putin. If the call was as perfect as Trump rambles on about, one way to settle things would be for him to release the actual recording of the call that he reportedly stashed on some classified computer server. Instead, he released a transcribed memorandum of the call and muddied the water.

Trump’s enablers of this ongoing erosion of constitutional norms, the Senate and House Republicans, have two options: stand with him or stand with their oath to the Constitution. Right now, there are few profiles in courage among this group, but a lot of fealty to a wannabe autocrat threatens just what America is and what it stands for.

Republicans have no defense to the accusations against Trump, so they are attacking the constitutional impeachment process and saying it is being done in the dark. Actually, it is being done behind closed doors by different House committees that Republican members of those committees can attend. The investigation is being run the way a prosecutorial team would run a grand jury investigation.

When the committees are done with their probe, the House is likely to vote whether or not to impeach Trump. If they impeach, they will hand over the evidence to be used in a trial in the Senate for all Americans to see and make their own judgments.

Roy Lehman, Woolwich Township

Lindsey Graham’s Turkey backbone softens quickly

How sad! For a few moments, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., grew a backbone and showed some courage with his condemnation of President Donald Trump's abrupt removal of American troops from northern Syria.

Graham’s words were very strong and correct. However, just a few days later he reversed himself and agreed with Trump’s decision (which, by that time, included a Trump-administration-brokered cease-fire with Turkey that kept it from attacking the disputed region.)

Did Trump reach out to him when they reportedly spoke to each other on Oct. 19? Perhaps some of Graham’s constituents contacted him and threatened to withhold their votes from his 2020 re-election bid.

Trump’s decision will probably result in thousands of Kurds being killed by Turkish forces. These Kurds are the same people who stood shoulder to shoulder with our troops to destroy ISIS, and now we’ve abandoned them.

This terrible decision may haunt our country for many years to come. It should also haunt the conscience of Graham and others who are so fearful that they won’t be re-elected if they go against Trump.

Paul S. Bunkin, Turnersville

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