Of misrepresentation

Re “It’s not just cartoons” from B.E. Spurgeon of North Little Rock, who is unhappy with certain cartoons that depict Mr. Trump’s Ukraine phone call and Adam Schiff’s rendering of the official memo of said call: The official memo was generated by the president’s staff and is not a complete or accurate transcript of the phone call to the newly elected president of Ukraine, according to other persons who were listening to the complete call. Who knows what was actually said or requested of the Ukrainian president in that phone call?

The general public will never know since it reportedly has been classified and placed in a secure vault so no one can see what was actually said.

The letter-writer wonders why there was no punitive action taken against Mr. Schiff for misrepresenting the official memo. If Mr. Schiff is to be punished, what would be the appropriate punishment for the many thousands of misstatements and outright lies given by the Chief Prevaricator in the White House in his innumerable daily tweets and at the rallies for his devoted followers? It seems many of the president’s legal-team sycophants in Congress also have problems with accurate statements regarding the impeachment hearing when claiming Republicans were blocked from attending or not allowed to ask questions during the closed hearings. The hearings were open only to the committee members of both parties. Questions concerning the whistle-blower were not allowed since the identity of the whistle-blower is confidential per the official guidelines.

ROBERT CROFT

Springdale