Political cartoon got it wrong

The cliché is that a picture is worth 1,000 words. One might apply it to a political cartoon. A picture or a cartoon, however, may fix and promote a stereotype. Trump supporters want to think that Democrats spent the last four years trying to deny the result of the election of 2016, and, therefore are hypocritical in attacking Republicans for trying to deny the election of Joe Biden as Presidentelect in 2016. (See the political cartoon in The News-Times on Nov. 11.)

The cartoon ignores some facts: Hillary Clinton promptly conceded to Donald Trump’s election in 2016; outgoing President Obama organized and participated in an extensive transition process with Donald Trump; the Mueller Investigation was not a contrivance to remove Trump from office, but rather an investigation into the role Russia played in our election of 2016 reaching the conclusion that it could neither charge Trump with, nor exonerate Trump from, collusion with the government of Russia, but leaving no doubt that Russia sought to influence the election in Trump’s favor. Read the 400-plus pages.

Removal from office, the logical consequence of an impeachment trial finding Trump guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors as charged by House Democrats, was never going to occur because the Republican-controlled Senate as jury was never going to find Trump guilty. Trump will complete the term for which he was elected in 2016, on Jan. 20, 2021. He has been denied a second term by a democratic election of the American people.

People ought to read 1,000 words (or more) sometimes rather than rely on a political cartoon. Daniel C. Hudson Ridgefield