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Palaver with the POTUS
Donald John Trump
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Black Lives Matter Plaza
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. Trump:
I’m very grateful and a bit surprised you agreed to chat with me on line. I thought my goose was cooked because I’m not active on Twitter. In this letter, I’m going to clean up the grammar and syntax and try to create a document I can keep and refer to in the future. I am just writing my reactions to your remarks to make sure I note my remarks correctly.
I still don’t understand why you made me sign that Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) applied to your words. I hope you will read this and see it sounds goofy without your words but, at the same time, it’s easy to get the gist of how you were steering the conversation.
You are the first POTUS since LBJ who said a word to me while he was POTUS. I had conversations with lots of candidates for the job you hold, but they lost.
Thinking back on the candidates who would talk to me — the ones you keep calling “losers” — I admit to being puzzled how…
