Dear Mr. Trump,

I hear that you accused President Obama of not making calls to families of deceased U.S. soldiers, “because that’s what you were told.”

You accused him of not being born in the United States, because that’s what you were told, and you had great evidence to prove it, “believe me.”

You accused Muslim Americans of celebrating on 9/11, because you apparently saw it on a television that no one else saw, and anyway, I’m sure that’s what you were told.

Who are these secretive people whispering in your ear these outrageous lies, lies that you then repeat without regard to truth? They are the Alex Jones’s of the world, right? The people who will also swear that Elvis Presley is still alive, that Hitler survived his bunker and is starting a new Nazi party, that the ATF blew up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, right? The same people who believe that aliens seeded life on Earth and that a small cavil of evildoers is controlling the world and that the FBI and CIA have implanted electrodes into their brains.

Those are your closest confidants, the crazies who whisper in your ear. Sir, it explains an awful lot.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger