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Down in Washington, the students are back in school, the leaves are changing colors, and Congress is deciding whether to look into why the president’s name is reportedly mentioned multiple times in materials related to the investigation of an infamous sexual abuser of teenage girls.

In my opinion: Yes, that is a question that the United States legislature should be trying to answer. I do not care if it is a trending topic on search engines; I don’t care if it might be more tactically savvy for Democrats to talk about other issues. I simply believe that it is in the public’s interest to know, for example, what the president was talking about when he wrote a birthday note to the notorious sex criminal that stated, according to the Wall Street Journal, that they shared “certain things in common.” (Donald Trump has said this letter is “fake” and is

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