He’s the POTUS who called „hoax.“ How can anyone still believe him?
If there’s anyone who deserves to be harassed by a conspiracy theory, it’s President Donald Trump. The man has been pushing them himself for decades, and now one of them has come back to bite him hard. The Epstein scandal is clearly driving him crazy, and he only has himself to blame.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which the president apparently believed to be under his control, subpoenaed the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, demanding they turn over all relevant papers to the committee, and on Monday they did just that. By Monday afternoon, at least two documents became public — and they were damning.
In a reprise from its July exclusive, which revealed a lewd drawing and letter apparently created by Trump for a book of greetings compiled by Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell to mark his 50th birthday in 2003, the Wall Street Journal published the image itself. (Following the Journal’s original report, the president claimed it didn’t exist or was fake, and sued the paper for $10 billion.) On Monday, after the drawing was published, the caterwauling from the White House grew hysterical. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed the signature did not match the president’s, despite the Journal providing plenty of examples from the period appearing to show it does.
The message is disturbing, intimating that the two men were very close, had a lot in common and shared “a wonderful secret” about how “enigmas never age.” Based on what we already know about Epstein, you don’t have to be a cryptanalyst to read between the lines. The lewd drawing appears to be of a budding young female, which only adds to the creepiness.
Trump was also mentioned in another of the book’s entries, which was apparently submitted by Joel Pashcow, a businessman and Mar-a-Lago member. The Journal reported that he “made a crude joke about a woman whom Epstein and Trump each courted in the 1990s, according to court testimony and people familiar with the matter.”
Pashcow’s letter was accompanied by “a photo of a posterboard-sized check for $22,500, which had been mocked up to appear that it was sent from Trump to Epstein. Beneath it, a caption said: ‘Jeffrey showing early talents with money + women sells “fully depreciated” [woman’s name] to Donald Trump for $22,500.’ The woman’s name is redacted in the image.”
“Fully depreciated” suggests that the woman got too old for (or was used up by) Epstein, so he passed her along to his pal Donald Trump. In light of what has been accused of, the joke about “selling” the woman seems particularly nasty.
As damning information like this continues to trickle out, it’s getting more difficult for the president to brush it off. But he continues to try.
In a post on X, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s spin didn’t quite, well, spin. “The latest piece published by the Wall Street Journal PROVES this entire ‘Birthday Card’ story is false,” she wrote.
