Berl Falbaum
My Dearest Mr. President:
It is with a heavy heart that I write to you asking for forgiveness for all the cold-hearted columns I have written about you in the last 11 years.
I am truly, truly sorry….
I am confident that you are wondering why I had such a change of heart. The credit goes to Scott Bessent, your Secretary of the Treasury who appeared on Meet the Press last Sunday.
The moderator, Kristen Welker, asked Bessent for his reaction to your statement after the death of former FBI Director Robert Mueller. You said:
“Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!”
Bessent replied:
“Given what was done to Trump and his family, it’s impossible to understand what he went through. I think we should have a little empathy for what has been done to Trump and his family.
“I watched the look in his eye. Neither one of us can understand what has been done to him and his family.”
Bessent said you deserve empathy, particularly for the search at Mar-a-Lago where you stored thousands of classified documents.
It hit me. I never considered how you must have suffered as agents rummaged in your bathroom to retrieve some of the country’s vital secrets. Nor did I show any sympathy for all your other suffering.
How insensitive, thoughtless and inconsiderate of me.
How can I make amends? Then I remembered that on Yom Kippur Jews recite a prayer, Ashamnu, in which they state individual sins they have committed and ask forgiveness for each one.
I am going to invoke Ashamnu in this case. I never showed any empathy for the following sins through the years. So here goes:
For the sin which I have committed censuring you for Stormy Daniels, I ask forgiveness;
For the sin which I have committed for criticizing you for mocking a disabled man, I ask forgiveness;
For the sin which I have committed not showing empathy when you ridiculed Gold Star parents who lost a son in the Iraq War, I ask for forgiveness;
For the sin of not understanding why you made fun of Nancy Pelosi’s husband who had his head bashed in with a hammer, I ask for forgiveness;
For the sin of accusing you of telling nothing but lies, I ask for your forgiveness;
For the sin of not understanding that some days you might be depressed because the businesses you are running out of the Oval Office are not doing well, I ask for your forgiveness;
For the sin of being appalled when you criticized the Reiners after their son allegedly stabbed them to death, I ask for your forgiveness;
For the sin of condemning your behavior with women, I ask for your forgiveness;
For the sin of not sympathizing with the alleged bone spurs that got you out of the draft while I honored the late Senator John McCain who was a POW in Vietnam for 5-1/2 years, I ask for your forgiveness;
For the sin of disputing your description of January 6 as a “day of love,” I ask for your forgiveness;
For accusing you of being a racist after you depicted the Obamas as apes, I ask for your forgiveness;
For charging you with being antisemitic after you distributed antisemitic materials in your first presidential campaign and had dinner with a white supremacist Holocaust denier, I ask for your forgiveness.
Whew, got that all off my best. I feel much better already showing a little empathy. Bessent would be proud of me. And, I promise, I will be more careful with my empathy in the future.
I want you to know, Mr. President, there are more sins for which I could ask your forgiveness. But my editor said he had only so much room for my column in the paper. I am angry. I do not forgive him, nor do I offer him any empathy.
But I will add one more: For the sins of writing that you lost the 2020 election, I not only ask for your forgiveness, but I now believe you won.
That’s empathy.
It is with a heavy heart that I write to you asking for forgiveness for all the cold-hearted columns I have written about you in the last 11 years.
I am truly, truly sorry….
I am confident that you are wondering why I had such a change of heart. The credit goes to Scott Bessent, your Secretary of the Treasury who appeared on Meet the Press last Sunday.
The moderator, Kristen Welker, asked Bessent for his reaction to your statement after the death of former FBI Director Robert Mueller. You said:
“Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!”
Bessent replied:
“Given what was done to Trump and his family, it’s impossible to understand what he went through. I think we should have a little empathy for what has been done to Trump and his family.
“I watched the look in his eye. Neither one of us can understand what has been done to him and his family.”
Bessent said you deserve empathy, particularly for the search at Mar-a-Lago where you stored thousands of classified documents.
It hit me. I never considered how you must have suffered as agents rummaged in your bathroom to retrieve some of the country’s vital secrets. Nor did I show any sympathy for all your other suffering.
How insensitive, thoughtless and inconsiderate of me.
How can I make amends? Then I remembered that on Yom Kippur Jews recite a prayer, Ashamnu, in which they state individual sins they have committed and ask forgiveness for each one.
I am going to invoke Ashamnu in this case. I never showed any empathy for the following sins through the years. So here goes:
For the sin which I have committed censuring you for Stormy Daniels, I ask forgiveness;
For the sin which I have committed for criticizing you for mocking a disabled man, I ask forgiveness;
For the sin which I have committed not showing empathy when you ridiculed Gold Star parents who lost a son in the Iraq War, I ask for forgiveness;
For the sin of not understanding why you made fun of Nancy Pelosi’s husband who had his head bashed in with a hammer, I ask for forgiveness;
For the sin of accusing you of telling nothing but lies, I ask for your forgiveness;
For the sin of not understanding that some days you might be depressed because the businesses you are running out of the Oval Office are not doing well, I ask for your forgiveness;
For the sin of being appalled when you criticized the Reiners after their son allegedly stabbed them to death, I ask for your forgiveness;
For the sin of condemning your behavior with women, I ask for your forgiveness;
For the sin of not sympathizing with the alleged bone spurs that got you out of the draft while I honored the late Senator John McCain who was a POW in Vietnam for 5-1/2 years, I ask for your forgiveness;
For the sin of disputing your description of January 6 as a “day of love,” I ask for your forgiveness;
For accusing you of being a racist after you depicted the Obamas as apes, I ask for your forgiveness;
For charging you with being antisemitic after you distributed antisemitic materials in your first presidential campaign and had dinner with a white supremacist Holocaust denier, I ask for your forgiveness.
Whew, got that all off my best. I feel much better already showing a little empathy. Bessent would be proud of me. And, I promise, I will be more careful with my empathy in the future.
I want you to know, Mr. President, there are more sins for which I could ask your forgiveness. But my editor said he had only so much room for my column in the paper. I am angry. I do not forgive him, nor do I offer him any empathy.
But I will add one more: For the sins of writing that you lost the 2020 election, I not only ask for your forgiveness, but I now believe you won.
That’s empathy.
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