Sandy Hook Victim’s Brother ‘Shocked’ That Letter Trump Sent Him Appeared in Evidence Photo at Mar-a-Lago

• JT Lewis, whose brother Jesse died at Sandy Hook, was “shocked” by an evidence photo from Mar-a-Lago.

• A box containing classified documents was also shown to contain a letter Trump sent him in 2018.

• “It was nice of him to keep the letter,” Lewis said.

In 2018, JT Lewis, whose little brother Jesse died in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, received a letter signed by Donald Trump. He keeps it in a frame above the sofa in his living room, where he sees it every day.

He was “shocked” this week when an image of the letter appeared in a widely publicized prosecution filing in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.

The image shows an unsigned draft of the letter he cherishes lying in a box, above other presidential memorabilia, including newspaper articles and notes on White House stationery.

It was one of a series of photos of evidence that prosecutors along with a special counsel Jack Smith This shows that Trump mixed presidential “memorabilia” with national secrets.

“It was nice of him to keep the letter,” Lewis said Wednesday.

“It’s verbatim” what Trump sent him in June 2018, he said. “Except Jack Smith has blacked out my name and it’s not signed,” he added. “My copy is signed, of course.”

In the letter, Trump thanks Lewis for coming to the White House “to discuss the safety of our schools.”

Trump’s letter tells Lewis that the nation will forever remember the 2012 tragedy, in which 20 children and seven adults died, and it thanks Lewis for being “a significant example of the healing power of aid to others” through his organization, Newtown Helps Rwanda.

Lewis and his mother, Scarlett Lewis, were invited to the White House six years after the Sandy Hook shooting and shortly after the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting to speak with Trump about his national school safety initiative.

Both mother and son were school safety activists at the time, JT through the now-defunct Rwanda Initiative and Scarlett through the still-active ChooseLoveMovement.com, which campaigns for life skills programs for children to help prevent more shootings.

“That’s part of how he healed, by helping other people,” Scarlett Lewis told Business Insider on Wednesday about JT, who was 12 when his 6-year-old brother died.

“To have a president recognize him, write him a letter and sign it personally was very meaningful to JT,” she said. “And then to see that that was something that he kept was very, very moving,” she said of Trump.

“He was shocked that Trump kept the letter.”

JT Lewis said Wednesday that he remains a big fan of Trump.

“I was actually with him two days ago in New Orleans at a fundraiser,” he said.

“We were able to catch up. I wish it had happened before this,” he said of the letter that resurfaced. “I would have talked to him about it.”

Jesse McCord Lewis died shortly after shouting “Run!” while directing classmates to safety, according to his obituary and several news reports. June 30 would have been his 13th birthday.

Rather than run himself, he stayed behind to help a “beloved teacher,” Victoria Soto, as she lay dying, Scarlett Lewis told BI.

“Jesse saved nine classmates, and a lot of kids made headlines, graduated high school and credited him with saving their lives,” the mother said.

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