Dear Mr. Trump,

You should really read Bob Woodward’s book, Fear: Trump in the White House. You might learn a lot. Or, if necessary, have someone read it to you.

The people who know you best easily find the right words to describe you.

Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called you a “f—ing moron,” proving that your stupidity is prodigious and hurtful to the American people.

We all know you lie repeatedly to the American public, as for example when you claimed that your inaugural crowd was the largest in history. But now we know you lie to the people closest to you, those who are trying to help you. For example, you lied to Rance Preibus about your intentions of replacing him as Chief of Staff with General Kelly. You can’t stop lying, even when it’s in your best interest to do so. Your own lawyer, John Dowd, has called you a “f—ing liar.” Your economic advisor Gary Cohn gave you the highest praise possible for a liar. To him, you’re “a professional liar.”

You can fire everyone around you for speaking the truth, but every replacement will inevitably – within days – come to the same conclusions.

So read the book. Learn what the people around you really think of you.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger

Dear Mr. Trump,

So now the truth comes out, as I knew it would.

You have mocked Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, a victim of sexual assault, in as cruel and ugly a way as could be imagined. Not only did you mock her through your words, you mocked her with your derisive tone.

Through this childish but bullying behavior, you signal to your base that all women’s claims of sexual abuse should be ignored, ridiculed, castigated, and buried, because – oh my! – they might tarnish a man’s reputation.

Who are these men you’re so concerned about? The men who try to rip a girl’s clothes from her body and laugh while doing it. The men who press their hands over their victims’ mouths to stifle the scream for help and laugh while doing it. The men who drug their victims before having unconsented sex with them and laugh while doing it. The men, like you Sir, who brag about “grabbing p***y” and the men who are out and out rapists. You, Sir, have given courage to all such men, men whom you see as too good to be challenged with their criminal misdeeds.

This is the low point to which you have brought the Republican Party. You and your party are beneath the gutter, unless Senators Flake, Collins, and Murkowski show that they are still human beings concerned with our country — that they have not been entirely corrupted by you — by voting against your man.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger

Dear Mr. Trump,

So basically you’re calling Dr. Christine Blasey Ford a liar and, with her, every other woman who ultimately comes forward with the fact that she was a victim of sexual assault.

You’re basically attacking everyone girl and woman in the United States, calling them unfit to believe.

Here’s what you’ve just tweeted: “Judge Kavanaugh showed America exactly why I nominated him.”

You nominated him to attack the credibility of a woman in particular and women in general. You nominated him to lie and obfuscate about his past. You nominated him to pretend that a 17-year-old’s calendars are proof of something, while ducking an FBI investigation and a lie detector test. You nominated him to make sure that the government could control what women could or could not do with their bodies and to abolish Roe v. Wade.

You still have time to withdraw this nomination, Sir. Find someone who doesn’t demean women and find someone who doesn’t lie.

Can it be that hard? For you, apparently, it has been.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger

Dear Mr. Trump:

Your Supreme Court nominee allegedly exposed himself to Deborah Ramirez while at Yale and pushed his penis in her face. This is in addition to attacking Christine Blaley Ford, trying to rip off her clothes, holding her down on a bed, covering her mouth with his hand. Here’s corroboration of the Yale incident from The New Yorker:

A classmate of Ramirez’s … said that another student told him about the incident either on the night of the party or in the next day or two. The classmate … is “one-hundred-per-cent sure” that he was told at the time that Kavanaugh was the student who exposed himself to Ramirez. He independently recalled many of the same details offered by Ramirez, including that a male student had encouraged Kavanaugh as he exposed himself. The classmate, like Ramirez, recalled that the party took place in a common room on the first floor in Entryway B of Lawrance Hall, during their freshman year.

And yet, your White House minions call Kavanaugh a “good man.” I bet he’s a “good man” just like you’re a “good man,” Sir.

You’re a “good man” who grabbed about “grabbing p***y” and how you could get away with because you were “a star.”

You’re a “good man” who disparaged a Vietnam War hero, John McCain.

You’re a “good man” who praised the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazis in Charlottesville as “some very fine people.”

You’re a “good man” – kidnapper would be the legal definition – who tore crying children from their parents, hundreds of them never to be reunited.

Please spare us the “good man” rhetoric.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger

Dear Mr. Trump,

We all know of your misogyny, of your fondness for “grabbing p***y” and bragging about it, your cheating on wives, your demeaning statement that a female reporter was “bleeding from wherever,” your walking into the dressing rooms of your Miss America pageant because you thought you owned the contestants, your hypocrisy in decrying Bill Clinton’s alleged acts of sexual violence (which denied) but then looking the other way about the alleged acts of your Supreme Court nominee.

But your attack on Christine Blasey Ford is utterly disgusting. You claim she should have called in the FBI immediately if her accusations were true. First, the FBI has no criminal jurisdiction over claims of attempted rape, unless that occurs on a federal installation. Second, however, and more importantly, the victims of sexual assault are frequently scared and embarrassed and thus commonly try to pretend that the incident never happened.

“Sexual assault … remains the most drastically underreported crime in the U.S.  In college, fewer than 5% of completed or attempted rapes are reported to the police. …  Survivors may think they won’t be believed ….” https://www.csbsju.edu/chp/sexual-assault-survivors-guide  Yes, the victim is often attacked when she comes forward with her allegations, just as you and your Republican colleagues are attacking Professor Blasey now. No wonder that “many victims/survivors find an immediate coping strategy in indulging in the denial that the assault ever occurred in the first place.” Id.

I hope that my readers will immediately call their Republican senators – particularly in Alaska and Maine – to tell them that Judge Kavanaugh should not be confirmed. Inform Senators Murkowski and Collins that American voters will not stand for a Supreme Court justice who thinks he can get away with attempted rape. If they vote for putting Kavanaugh on the nation’s highest court, they should know that they’ve lost their chance for reelection.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger

Dear Mr. Trump,

It’s time to withdraw the Kavanaugh nomination. He’s a sex offender. If you continue to support him, it’s just like your continued support of Judge Moore in Alabama.

Sure, I know that you bragged about “grabbing p**y” and got elected anyway (with the help of your collusion with the Russian government). But you were elected only for a four-year term. An appointment to the Supreme Court is for life. We can’t have someone on the Supreme Court who thinks so little of women’s (and human) rights as to attempt rape of a minor.

Of course Kavanaugh will deny the charges, but let’s look at the facts, Sir. His accuser has passed a lie detector test. I can assure you that Kavanaugh will not submit to one. His accuser described the attack to her therapist and husband years ago, naming Kavanaugh to her husband. There’s no way all this could have happened unless she was telling the truth now. She is a distinguished university professor. There’s no way she would come forward and subject herself to the vicious attacks of your supporters unless she was telling the truth.

And if you try to force this nomination through, notwithstanding the truth about Kavanaugh, and you end up forcing Senators Collins and Murkowski to vote for him, why should any woman in Maine or Alaska, respectively, ever vote for them again?

If voters in Maine and Alaska happen to read my letters to you, Sir, I hope they make it clear to their senators that they strongly object to the appointment of such a man to the Supreme Court.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger

Dear Mr. Trump,

One of these days, I won’t be able to write to you at the White House anymore. There will come a time when, if I want to get your attention, I will need to write to you care of the United States Penitentiary in Allenwood.

Although you claim that you hardly know Paul Manafort – who is now cooperating with Mueller investigation – he was your campaign chairman. He participated in the Trump Tower meeting with your son and son-in-law, the meeting you surely knew about in advance. He will tell all.

I have learned that, among the various educational opportunities available at Allenwood, you can take a correspondence course. This must be a course where they teach you to respond to letters. I am hopeful that, when the day comes, you will finally write back to me. I’ve now written you more than 100 letters and have yet to receive a response.

I would send copies of my letters to Allenwood – copies that would await your arrival, to be given to you in a large box when they assign you your orange jump suit – but I don’t have your register number yet. Mail can be sent to prisoners at Allenwood only if the addressee has a register number.

While serving your term in Allenwood (perhaps it will only be for two or three years), you can also work in an upholstery factory, where, I presume, you can manufacture a new rug for your head.

Or, maybe it won’t be Allenwood you’re sent to. Wherever you end up, my letters will follow.

The beginning of your trip to Allenwood starts when Democrats replace the Republicans in Congress who have sheltered you.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger

Dear Mr. Trump,

It’s all about you, isn’t it, “Sir”?

You’re happy as can be that you’re flying into Pennsylvania on September 11! Pumping those fists so all can see what a great man you are! You’re tough!

When you read your prepared remarks and I heard your voice, I asked myself how anyone in our country could think that you’re sincere. You have so thoroughly established yourself as a liar — even John Dowd, your lawyer, called you a f____ liar — everything that comes out of your mouth sounds like a lie to me.

Those alleged massive crowds cheering the fall of the Twin Towers that you purportedly saw, but no one else saw. That alleged massive Inauguration Day crowd you fantasized about and had your press secretary lie about to satisfy your ego. That ridiculous assurance that the nuclear threat from North Korea was gone. That stupid pretense that your administration properly handled the tragedy of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. The list goes on and on.

To a growing, massive majority of American voters – and we will definitely vote in November! – your credibility is zero and will never be anything other than zero.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger

Dear Mr. Trump,

It’s pathetic that you deem “treason” the fact that one of your closest associates in the White House has written anonymously.

Tens of millions of Americans including Yours Truly thank this writer for telling the truth about the dysfunction in the White House. Yes, we knew about your amorality before – your crudeness, that you’re unhinged and unbalanced, we knew it all before – but never have we had it from such a close source. God Bless The New York Times.

“Treason” is clearly defined by our criminal code as “levy[ing] war against [the United States] or adher[ing] to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.” 18 USC 2381. The writer whom you have deemed treasonous is NOT waging war against the United States or giving aid and comfort to its enemies. The writer is writing FOR the United States and giving aid and comfort – through an inside look at the travesty of your administration – to the American citizenry.

If you feel attacked by the Op-Ed in the New York Times, Sir, remember that you are not the United States. You are merely a public servant. Writing about your lack of intellect, crudeness, crazy half-backed ideas, and constant flip-flopping on policy is in great and honorable service of our democracy, not contrary to it, and absolutely not treasonous.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger

Dear Mr. Trump,

So it turns out you think Southerners are “dumb Southerners,” and “mentally retarded,” as in the names you call the Attorney General. Who knew that you were such a bigot? Many of the people who helped put you in office now know the truth: that a bigot is a bigot, that he demeans everyone, even the people who thought he was their friend.

It must be truly embarrassing for you that a great journalist, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Bob Woodward, has talked to the people who really know your White House, and they have been honest with him, and he has copious notes and recordings, I hear, to confirm every allegation.

But don’t worry. Just look at those wonderful denials flooding in.

So John F. Kelly, your chief of staff, denies calling you “an idiot.” He sure didn’t deny thinking that you were an idiot.

So John Dowd, your lawyer, denies calling you “a liar.” He sure didn’t deny thinking that you were a liar.

Let’s face it, Sir. The people who work for you and who know you best have ample evidence of your lack of character and intellect. What a shame for you – but a blessing for the American people – that many of them were willing to talk to Bob Woodward and tell him the truth.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger