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sheetsadam1 — 8 months ago(July 18, 2025 12:15 AM)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796?mod=hp_lead_pos7
It was Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, and Ghislaine Maxwell was preparing a special gift to mark the occasion. She turned to Epstein’s family and friends.
One of them was Donald Trump.
Maxwell collected letters from Trump and dozens of Epstein’s other associates for a 2003 birthday album, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Pages from the leather-bound album—assembled before Epstein was first arrested in 2006—are among the documents examined by Justice Department officials who investigated Epstein and Maxwell years ago, according to people who have reviewed the pages
. It’s unclear if any of the pages are part of the Trump administration’s recent review.
The president’s past relationship with Epstein is at a sensitive moment. The Justice Department documents, the so-called Epstein files, and who or what is in them are at the center of a storm consuming the Trump administration. On Wednesday, after angry comments about how the files are a hoax created by Democrats, President Trump lashed out at his own supporters for refusing to let the matter go.
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.”
In an interview with the Journal on Tuesday evening, Trump denied writing the letter or drawing the picture. “This is not me. This is a fake thing. It’s a fake Wall Street Journal story,” he said.
“I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women,” he said. “It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”
He told the Journal he was preparing to file a lawsuit if it published an article. “I’m gonna sue The Wall Street Journal just like I sued everyone else,” he said.
Allegations that Epstein had been sexually abusing girls became public in 2006 and he was arrested that year. Epstein died in 2019 in jail after he was arrested a second time and charged with sex trafficking conspiracy.
Justice Department officials didn’t respond to requests for comment or address questions about whether the Trump page and other pages of the birthday album were part of the agency’s recent documents review. The FBI declined to comment.
The existence of the album and the contents of the birthday letters haven’t previously been reported.
The album had poems, photos and greetings from businesspeople, academics, Epstein’s former girlfriends and childhood pals, according to the documents reviewed by the Journal and people familiar with them.
Among those who submitted letters were billionaire Leslie Wexner and attorney Alan Dershowitz
. The album also contained a letter from a now-deceased Harvard economist, one of Epstein’s report cards from Mark Twain junior high school in Brooklyn and a note from a former assistant that included an acrostic with Epstein’s name: “Jeffrey, oh Jeffrey!/ Everyone loves you!/ Fun in the sun!/ Fun just for fun!/ Remember…don’t forget me soon!/ Epstein…you rock!/ You are the best!”
Epstein was Wexner’s money manager at the time. The longtime leader of Victoria’s Secret wrote a short message that said: “I wanted to get you what you want… so here it is….”
After the text was a line drawing of what appeared to be a woman’s breasts.
Wexner declined to comment through a spokesman. Wexner’s spokesman previously told the Journal that the retail mogul “severed all ties with Epstein in 2007 and never spoke with him again.”
Dershowitz’s letter included a mock-up of a “Vanity Unfair” magazine cover with mock headlines such as “Who was Jack the Ripper? Was it Jeffrey Epstein?” He joked that he had convinced the magazine to change the focus of an article from Epstein to Bill Clinton.
Dershowitz, who represented Epstein after his first arrest, said, “It’s been a long time and I don’t recall the content of what I may have written.”
The book was put together by a New York City bookbinder, Herbert Weitz, according to people who were involved in the process. Weitz, who died in 2020, listed Epstein as a client on his website in 2003.
It isn’t clear how the letter with Trump’s signature was prepared. Inside the outline of the naked woman was a typewritten note styled as an imaginary conversation between Trump and Epstein, written in the third person.
“Voice Over: There must be more to life than having everything,” the note began.
Donald: Yes, there is, but I won’t tell you what it is.
Jeffrey: Nor will I, since I also know what it is.
Donald: We have certain things in common, Jeffrey.
Jeffrey: Yes, we do, come to think of it.
Donald: Enigmas never age, ha -
CrystalRaindrops — 8 months ago(July 18, 2025 01:33 AM)
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned directly by President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued. Mr. Murdoch stated that he would take care of it but, obviously, did not have the power to do so. The Editor of The Wall Street Journal, Emma Tucker, was told directly by Karoline Leavitt, and by President Trump, that the letter was a FAKE, but Emma Tucker didn’t want to hear that. Instead, they are going with a false, malicious, and defamatory story anyway. President Trump will be suing The Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp, and Mr. Murdoch, shortly. The Press has to learn to be truthful, and not rely on sources that probably don’t even exist. President Trump has already beaten George Stephanopoulos/ABC, 60 Minutes/CBS, and others, and looks forward to suing and holding accountable the once great Wall Street Journal. It has truly turned out to be a “Disgusting and Filthy Rag” and, writing defamatory lies like this, shows their desperation to remain relevant. If there were any truth at all on the Epstein Hoax, as it pertains to President Trump, this information would have been revealed by Comey, Brennan, Crooked Hillary, and other Radical Left Lunatics years ago. It certainly would not have sat in a file waiting for “TRUMP” to have won three Elections. This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval. This SCAM, perpetuated by the Democrats, should end, right now! -
CrystalRaindrops — 8 months ago(July 18, 2025 01:44 AM)
JD Vance
@JDVance
Forgive my language but this story is complete and utter bullshit. The WSJ should be ashamed for publishing it.
Where is this letter? Would you be shocked to learn they never showed it to us before publishing it? Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump? -
JustinCase — 8 months ago(July 18, 2025 01:47 AM)
Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump?
Is anyone else not shocked to see a perverted couch lover defending another sexual deviant pervert?
Vance, dude, you do know that Trump wants to have sex with his daughter.
How you die does not redeem how you lived. - A black pastor on the life and death of Charlie Kirk -
sheetsadam1 — 8 months ago(July 18, 2025 01:54 AM)
Couchfucker is secretly happy about this. He's a slimy opportunist who is on the record as hating Trump. He's also the least charismatic person in politics. He understands that the base turning on Trump to the point that Congress actually does something (or a new Congress does after the midterms) is the only chance he ever has at being president.
Draft Barron Trump -
JustinCase — 8 months ago(July 18, 2025 02:00 AM)
I kinda figure a VP is like being a back up QB on a team.
They don't want anything bad to happen to the leading man but yet the best chance they have is if something takes out the leading man so they could be secretly hoping they get a chance to play.
The exception being Couch Fucker with that first part.
As for your comment, I appreciate that perspective.
Couch Fucker is playing it smart by being an ass kisser or acting loyal to Fat Face just to play the game and keep his job.
How you die does not redeem how you lived. - A black pastor on the life and death of Charlie Kirk -
JustinCase — 8 months ago(July 18, 2025 01:43 AM)
It certainly would not have sat in a file waiting for “TRUMP” to have won three Elections.
Three?
Then he is there illegally and must be removed right now.
Just have a guy holding a Big Mac and fries with a Diet Coke inches from his fat face lead him out of the office, the WH grounds and down the street.
That should do it.
How you die does not redeem how you lived. - A black pastor on the life and death of Charlie Kirk -
JustinCase — 8 months ago(July 18, 2025 01:45 AM)
It is possible that not every rich white man seen with Eppy did partake of the rape of girls and women.
With Trump, it is so obvious that he did.
Cheating on his recently post preggo wife with a porn actor is all the evidence we need.
How you die does not redeem how you lived. - A black pastor on the life and death of Charlie Kirk -
JustinCase — 8 months ago(July 18, 2025 01:48 AM)
I also want to comment that I miss the days when a president sounded like a grown up and not a five year old in his communications.
Experts did say that Trump speaks at a third grade level.
How you die does not redeem how you lived. - A black pastor on the life and death of Charlie Kirk -
Phaenon — 8 months ago(July 18, 2025 01:52 AM)
There are lots of two different things going on all over with this one
Let's keep the 'couch loving' and 'sex with his daughter' talk away unless you want the '**** himself in front of the Pope' and 'drank a billion dollars away in 3 months' talk that will no doubt be used to counter it.
Let's stick to the facts, and how they are attempted to be countered, like adults (As you mentioned earlier).
Ding Dong
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CrystalRaindrops — 8 months ago(July 18, 2025 01:47 AM)
Also:
https://www.filmboards.com/t/Politics/Was-this-Captcha-solved-correctly%3F-3580584/