A rabbi from Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue said he won't meet with President Donald Trump, who is heading to the city Tuesday in the wake of the massacre at the house of worship this weekend.
Rabbi Jeffrey Myers -- who escaped the gunfire that killed 11 on Saturday morning -- at first said the president was welcome, but since he made that statement, he "received a lot of email ... [from people who] are not happy with those words," Myers told CNN Tuesday.
"The thing that saddens me is those emails also contain hate, and it just continues in this vicious cycle ... That's just not the solution," Myers said. "We need to be better than this."
"I have no plans at this time for any involvement" with Trump's visit, Myers told CNN. "My attention will be with the family. I have a funeral, and I must tend to their needs."
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