President Trump
The White
House
1600
Pennsylvania Ave
Washington
DC 20500
20 April
2017
Dear
President Trump,
I heard on
the radio today that a group of lawyers are suing you over your claim that President
Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower, a claim which you produced absolutely no
evidence to back up.
Yesterday
the news reported that you have no intention to release your tax records.
On several
occasions in the last several months you have declared that you had a plan to
address a particular problem, but then refused to release the details of that
plan.
I can
imagine a couple of reasons for this rather odd reluctance to share what you say you know
about these various situation with the American people.
First,
perhaps you are embarrassed because you actually have no evidence to support
your claims, perhaps you have no tax returns to show. Perhaps you have no plans
to address the problems. If this is the
case, using the defense of claiming that you have evidence or a plan that you
don’t have will not work, because people will suspect that your accusations are
baseless, your taxes are hiding something, and your plans do not exist.
Second, perhaps
what you are hiding is distressing.
Perhaps you really do have evidence about wiretapping, but do not want
to damage President Obama’s standing.
Perhaps you do have tax returns, but what they contain would cause a scandal
so monstrous that you do not want to release them. Perhaps your immigration plan and your other plans
are so horrifying that they would cause the American people to be upset.
But don’t
you see, by not releasing the truth you allow rumors to propagate – and rumors
are always worse than reality.
My third
hypothesis is that you have a deep-set psychological aversion to telling the
truth. If that is the case, Sir, I think
you are in the wrong business and should think about getting out.
Mr Turmp,
tell the truth. If you do not have the
truth, do not make accusations. If you
are honest with the American people, perhaps they would start respecting you
more.
Regards,
Bill Boerman-Cornell
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