I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since we corresponded last. And what a year! Congratulations on finally securing your permanent security clearance — not having it for so long must have been quite bothersome. I’m sure by next year some of your colleagues will be able to identify precisely what your Office of American Innovation does. And maybe by 2019 the regional anger over the relocation of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem will not thwart your attempts at Middle East peace.
But hey, I’m not writing about your all-too-public stumbles as a White House staffer. No, I’m writing because it’s time for our annual revisit of your 2016 claim that “Donald Trump is not anti-Semitic and he’s not a racist.