Hey, I think we’ve discovered an area of agreement! I concur that you can’t not be a racist for 69 years and then run for president as a racist. I do fear, however, that we part ways on the inference to draw from that claim. To me, this simply confirms that Trump has been a racist for much of his life. For you, as you say a minute later in the clip, “I know who the president is and I have not seen anything in him that is racist.”

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My question is simple: are you devoting all your energies to skin care so you can willfully ignore the evidence that your father-in-law is, in fact, a racist?

Consider the evidence from the past year:

And finally, we arrive at yesterday, when your father-in-law, the president of the United States, tweet-stormed about Democratic Reps. Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) and Ilhan Omar (Minn.). He blasted, “ ‘progressive’ Democrat congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world” and then suggested “why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.”

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Let’s agree, Jared, that at best Trump’s tweets were radically uninformed. Tlaib was born in Detroit, Pressley was born in Cincinnati and Ocasio-Cortez was born in New York City. At worst, Jared: Don’t we have to call this racist? Why did Trump presume that three minority women were from somewhere other than the United States? The tweets have been deleted, which further suggests that he knew something was wrong. It’s also telling that no one on the White House staff defended the president when queried from either the New York Times or Washington Post about these tweets.

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I am sure you will try to rationalize this rhetoric away as anything other than racist. Still, it seems hard to dispute how Peter Baker described these tweets in his New York Times story: “President Trump woke up on Sunday morning, gazed out at the nation he leads, saw the dry kindling of race relations and decided to throw a match on it. It was not the first time, nor is it likely to be the last. He has a pretty large carton of matches and a ready supply of kerosene.” Or, to put it more plainly: your father-in-law talks and acts like a white nationalist.

Jared, I have to say, the only time you were comfortable talking about Trump and race in that Axios interview was when you claimed that when Democrats call Trump racist, they’re doing a “disservice” to those who suffer from “real racism.” Out of curiosity: Does the president’s recent actions qualify as real racism?

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I used to write these letters to you out of sorrow at your own willful ignorance. This year, my letter comes out of anger, the anger I feel when I see that my synagogue has had to hire armed security because of the surge in anti-Semitism. I am sure you would attribute none of this to your father-in-law. We will have to agree to disagree there, because to me he is entirely responsible. Putting that to one side, however, here’s the thing: As president, Trump has done nothing to combat the racial strife and religious bigotry that has surged during his presidency. That seems like a failure of leadership.

The president is a bigot. You, by denying that fact, are a coward. You have left this country worse for wear, and I look forward to the day when you stop sullying the public office you hold.

Sincerely,