“This story has new news.” Political journalist Mark Halperin: Major newspaper about to publish blockbuster exposé about the relationship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
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I've seen the footage… Trump's alleged Epstein 'birthday letter' is just the start of this crisis. It could destroy his political career: DAN HODGES
If you believe Donald Trump, the letter published today in the Wall Street Journal, purporting to be from him to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is ‘fake news’. According to the report, the message – prepared for Epstein’s 50th birthday – ‘featured several lines of typewritten text framed by what appeared to be a hand-drawn outline of a naked woman’. It is also said to include the cryptic comment: ‘We have certain things in common Jeffrey.’
Trump is threatening to sue. And his allies have already been despatched to angrily defend the President. ‘Forgive my language but this story is complete and utter b**t,’ Vice President JD Vance raged. ‘Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump?’
Frankly, yes. That’s part of the problem. We’ve all heard the clip of Donald Trump boasting about how he likes to ‘grab them [women] by the p***y’. We’ve also seen the 1992 footage of him partying with Epstein on his Mar-a-Lago estate. At one point in the video, Trump is seen grabbing a woman towards him and patting her behind.
So yes, the letter – if it exists – would seem to be very much in character. But whether or not it’s real or fake isn’t really that important. Because as far as significant sections of his hitherto unbreachable MAGA base are concerned, Trump is already complicit.
And on this occasion, he has no one else to blame. In August 2019, soon after Epstein’s suicide, Trump reposted a tweet claiming, without evidence, that Bill Clinton was implicated in his death. Throughout the 2020 election campaign he continued to peddle conspiracy theories about the ‘real’ cause of Epstein’s death.
Then in 2024, when back out on the campaign trail, he returned to the issue. If elected, he would ‘declassify’ the Epstein files. For his supporters, it became a defining example of their hero’s commitment to finally draining the Washington swamp.
But then Trump won. And suddenly his commitment to exposing the full, squalid saga began to cool.
Pam Bondi, his Attorney General, began dragging her feet on declassification of the files. And the MAGA faithful started to get restless.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-14918099/DAN-HODGES-Donald-Trump-birthday-letter-Epstein.html
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