Fine. Who started this crap?
The liberal press did.
I read once the George W. Bush wrote a personal letter to each family of a serviceman killed in action.
It’s a nice tradition but certainly not a requirement of the POTUS. Imagine if Roosevelt or Truman tried that. It would have been impossible for even Johnson.
“Who started this crap?”
Not one person. “They” knew the Russia-Clinton info was going to be released, so had to find something for the MSM to glom onto to overshadow the collusion/treason issue. The goof with the cowboy hat agreed to be a team player and get this fabricated story front-and-center to suck the oxygen out of the real news.