Another one of your subscribers seems to be misinformed regarding President Roosevelt who he maintains was an anti-semite. In an article written by Laurence Zuckerman, a former New York Times reporter, and an adjunct professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, “No matter the evidence to the contrary, it has become received wisdom among many American Jews that Roosevelt deliberately and coldly abandoned Europe’s Jews in their hour of need. This marks a dramatic reversal in the image of a president who won more than 80 percent of the Jewish vote in all four of his successful campaigns, who surrounded himself with Jewish advisers and was portrayed by Hitler’s propagandists as Jewish (and not in a good way). Roosevelt brought thousands of Jewish professionals into government, prevented Hitler from overrunning Britain and Palestine (thus saving their large Jewish populations), chose to fight Germany first after the United States was attacked by Japan, and paved the way for New York’s first Jewish governor and senator.”
When I compared Donald Trump to Stalin and Hitler, I was comparing what Dr. Douglas LaBier, a practicing psychotherapist, had observed about people with EDD (Empathy Deficit Disorder.) and how those character traits could also be found in Donald Trump. In my opinion, Trump, like Hitler and Stalin before him, suffers from Empathy Deficit Disorder. One of the characteristics of someone with EDD is, “In a group setting they will talk a lot about themselves and their lives without really caring about what other people share.”
Regarding the coronavirus, an article recently appeared in the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch questioning Donald Trump’s statement that he “didn’t know” that the White House Global Health Security Office had been disbanded, even though he was the one who had disbanded it.
According to the Columbus Dispatch, “Almost two years ago, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown questioned President Trump’s elimination of the global health security office, part of the National Security Council. During a press conference last Friday afternoon about the federal government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, Trump was asked what responsibility he took for disbanding the White House office, almost two years ago, that had been set up to manage America’s response to pandemics. Trump called it a ‘nasty question,’ saying, “I didn’t do it,” and twice maintained, “I don’t know anything about it.”
On the Senate floor last week, Brown said, “We unilaterally disarmed against the world’s infectious diseases.”
When reporters asked Trump about shortcomings in testing and other areas cited by members of his own administration, he replied, “I don’t take responsibility at all.”
Marvin Fremerman
Springfield, Missouri