Op-ed's impeachment take was incomplete

It isn't so much what is said as what isn't said that makes a story complete, and this is true of the op-ed, "Senate appears to abdicate key role the founders intended" by Andrew Trees.

I know there is a fine line between voting to impeach a president and voting to convict or acquit a president on impeachment charges, but even so it is an important point and it is missing in this article. Every Democratic presidential candidate holding a U.S. Senate seat has stated they are for impeaching the president. They may not have abdicated their key role according to Trees, but does anyone really think this group really has an open mind and will vote anyway except to convict? I think not.

I say this not as a Republican, because I'm not one, or as a Democrat, because I'm not one of these, either. I generally try to select a candidate independent of party politics based on issues important to me.

Character does count and in 2016 I thought the two mainstream candidates were so horribly flawed, I voted for Gary Johnson. As an independent voter, I may have a more open mind then either Democratic or Republican politicians when it comes to the issue of impeaching the president and certainly more than Andrew Trees had when he provided an incomplete view.

Kenneth Fron

North Aurora