Jill Abramson writes that the “cancer in Trump’s presidency began during his 2016 campaign” and its “cure, as was true in Nixon’s time, may involve impeachment” (There’s only one cure for the cancer of Trump’s presidency, 22 August). However, as Martin Kettle explains, the impeachment process is fraught with danger and with no certainty of success (Impeaching Donald Trump is not the way to defeat Trumpism, 22 August).
It’s increasingly obvious that Trump is finished. For the sake of American society and its political system, the key question now is how to get rid of him with the minimum of fuss. Michael Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis claims that Trump “clearly would be indicted and jailed” if he wasn’t president and will be prosecuted as soon as he is out of office. Perhaps Trump can be quietly offered immunity from prosecution if he agrees not to seek reelection in 2020? We should all hope that the US president is discreetly offered a face-saving way out of the mess that he has made for himself.
Joe McCarthy
Dublin
• I know Trump’s the US president, but isn’t taking over Robert Mueller’s investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election that helped, allegedly, make him president in the first place, an obvious and unacceptable conflict of interest (Donald Trump says interview with Mueller could be ‘perjury trap’. 21 August)?
Gary Bennett
Exeter
• Comparisons between Tony Soprano and Donald Trump are just fake (The Teflon Donald, 23 August). Tony watched history documentaries, loved nature and was always nice to the FBI.
Paul Tattam
Chinley, Derbyshire
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