The letter bearing Trump’s name, which was reviewed by the Journal, is bawdy—like others in the album. It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts, and the future president’s signature is a squiggly “Donald” below her waist, mimicking pubic hair.
The letter concludes: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
At the time, Trump insisted the whole story was a fraud. “This is not me. This is a fake thing. It’s a fake Wall Street Journal story,” he told the Journal. “I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women. It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”
Trump went on to sue the Journal’s reporters, Journal publisher Dow Jones and its parent company News Corp for defamation. He is seeking $10 billion — yes with a “b” — in damages. The suit claims that the letter was “nonexistent...
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| Source:Chris Cillizza on The Wall Street Journal's breaking story about President Trump. |
From Chris Cillizza
Also from Chris Cillizza:
"Donald Trump long insisted that the infamous Jeffrey Epstein “birthday book” letter didn’t exist. He even sued The Wall Street Journal for reporting on it. But this week, the House Oversight Committee obtained the actual letter — and it looks exactly like what was originally described.
So what does this mean? Did Trump lie about writing the letter, or is it somehow a forgery? In this video, Chris Cillizza breaks down the evidence, Trump’s track record with the truth, his history with Epstein, and what this revelation could mean for the broader fight over releasing the Epstein files."
From Chris Cillizza
Our whole point here... or 1 of our 2 major points (to go along with the fact that convicted felons aren't good spokespeople when it comes to morality and what is appropriate and they don't make credible witnesses, especially when they're serial liars) is the whole Watergate lesson: the coverup is always worst than the crime. Which is why Fred Schneider and Derik Schneider have been arguing for The White House and DOJ to just put it all out there, instead of pretending that it doesn't even exist at all... or it's just some "Democratic hoax." As Fred Schneider wrote 2 weeks ago:
"But my point is, for reasons that I've already laid out, is Donald Trump literally has nothing to lose here in releasing them. He's already the most unpopular 2nd term President, at least in the television and internet age. People who dislike and hate him now, won't dislike and hate him more after those files are released to the public.
When the far-right of the Republican Party was talking about "family values", morality and character, the need for these things in our government, that was just something they used to attack Democrats. That's not what they care about. Someone could literally be a convicted felon, a serial liar and adulterer... if that person is on their side and represents their political values. And Mr. Trump's professional celebrity base, would probably just view him as a bigger "rockstar" and "badass", after the Epstein files are released.
The main lesson from Watergate that both Republicans and Democrats have failed to learn the last 50 plus years, that once a bad story is about to break, or has broken, is that the worst thing that you can do is to try to cover it up. What you do, is what a good lawyer would do in court: get the bad information and evidence about your side out, before the opposition and the media does it for you. Get ahead of the story and put your own spin on it, before you lose the narrative of it.
As long as The White House and Trump DOJ try to cover up this story, the longer it will be in the news, along with the slowing economy, rising prices, everything else that has gone wrong since Donald Trump became President again. And that's not where you want to be going into an election year. So of course they should release."
From The New Democrat
And as Derik wrote last week:
"As far as the Epstein files, it's hard to imagine a sitting U.S. President being more unpopular than Donald John Trump. He's now in Joe Biden's range as far as political unpopularity, with his low 40s and upper 30s approval rating. Releasing the Epstein files even with him all over them, couldn't hurt himself anymore than what he's already done to his own political standing. If anything, it would probably just make him seem cooler with his reality TV base and perhaps even Independents who voted for him, because they think he's a "badass" or something:
"Yeah!!! The Donald rolls with pimps and sex traffickers!!! He's even a bigger badass than we thought"
Or phrase that last part anyway you want."
From The New Democrat
But when you don't get everything out there that's against you, before the other side (including people in your own party) and the media does it to you, you are now the armed robber who decides to shoot the people in the bank, because he doesn't want any witnesses and you don't decide to do that until you have the money. You just added not just multiple murder 1 counts to your criminal conspiracy, on top of your armed bank robbery. You just made it worst for yourself.
The White House and DOJ already know how much of Donald Trump is in the Epstein files, from the case that the first Trump DOJ put together against Jeffrey Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell, from back in 2018-19. Now it's just a matter when the Congress and the people will get the whole story themselves, or most of it. And how the public gets that story.
Donald Trump could lie literally until American football is played on the Moon in real life. He's literally capable of doing that. But the more he lies about this and the more the people know what's actually the truth instead, the worst he and his party look. Which isn't a good thing for a President with a low 40s approval rating, presiding over a weak economy, with weak job growth and rising inflation, going into an election year.
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