A Ukrainian oil and gas company put Hunter Biden on its board at a seemingly highly inflated level of compensation (reported to be $50,000 per month). Hunter seems to have had no skills or wisdom worth near that sum, just his familial ties. It is clear that Joe Biden did not counsel his son well about the wisdom of accepting such a post.

Still, President Trump is wrong to be calling out the Bidens for corruption, particularly when his own corrupt behavior is out there for all to see.

Ken Derow

Swarthmore, Pa.

To the Editor:

It appears that some of President Trump’s most ardent supporters (for example, Tucker Carlson) are now suggesting that Republicans stop their fruitless efforts to label Mr. Trump’s conversation with the Ukrainian president as appropriate but instead urge that such conduct does not merit impeachment and that his fate should be determined by the 2020 election. And, of course, Democrats agonized for months over impeachment versus a fair and free election by the people in 2020.

How can we wait for and rely upon an election when it is now absolutely established that Mr. Trump has done, is doing and without question will continue to do everything he can to make sure the 2020 election is neither fair nor free? There is no choice but to impeach.

Lawrence B. Lame

Rego Park, Queens

To the Editor:

In your coverage of the “do us a favor” conversation between President Trump and the Ukrainian president, there’s one word that is consistently overlooked: “though.” In the president’s statement “I would like you to do us a favor though,” “though” is qualifying (in a grammatical sense) the previous sentence, in which President Volodymyr Zelensky states his desire for more American military aid.