r/politics • u/J-rdn • Jul 17 '25
Paywall Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796?mod=hp_lead_pos71.8k
u/AnAwkwardJedi Jul 17 '25
This is fucking creepy.
The letter:
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, have you noticed that?
Jeffrey: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you.
Trump: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.
Fucking disgusting.
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u/fistofthefuture New Hampshire Jul 17 '25
Wait wait, is this real? How is this not a megathread?
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u/MovieNightPopcorn Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 18 '25
I read the article. That is word for word what the card says, yes. It also has a drawing outline of a woman’s figure with trump’s signature standing in for pubes.
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u/ElephantOk4715 Jul 18 '25
JD said “does any of this sound like Trump?” And the very obvious answer to anyone listening to this creature for last decade, is yes!
He literally got caught on tape talking about “grabbing them by the pussy” and moving on married women. He was paying stormy for sex while his wife was recovering from child birth.
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u/alc0tt Jul 18 '25
https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Lawsuit.pdf
^ court docs around Jeffrey Epstein and tRump raping a 13 year old girl.
https://youtu.be/gnib-OORRRo?si=uhJNdBV0SB44gT5c
^ a video of her testimony
It’s sickening. tRump is a pedophile and rapist. But to make it even worse, in the testimony video above, “Katie Johnson” mentions several times that tRump took a liking to her specifically because she reminded him of his daughter who was also a teenager at the time.
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u/J-rdn Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 18 '25
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, have you noticed that?
Jeffrey: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you.
Trump: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.
President Trump at the White House, partially obscured by foliage and an American flag. President Trump at the White House on Wednesday. Photo: Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg News ‘Jeffrey enjoys his social life’ When he turned 50, Epstein was already wealthy from managing Wexner’s fortune and was socializing with Trump, Clinton and other powerful people at his Manhattan townhouse, Palm Beach, Fla., home and private Caribbean island.
A spokesman for Clinton referred to a 2019 statement that former President Clinton had cut off ties more than a decade before Epstein’s second arrest and didn’t know about Epstein’s alleged crimes.
Epstein and Trump spent time together in the 1990s and early 2000s and were photographed at social events, including with Maxwell and Melania Trump. A 1992 tape from the NBC archives shows Trump partying with Epstein at his Mar-a-Lago estate; Trump is seen pulling a woman toward him and patting her behind.
Trump, along with others including Clinton, also appeared several times on flight logs for Epstein’s private jet.
A 2002 New York magazine profile of Epstein quoted Trump. “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Trump said. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it—Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
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u/woger723 New York Jul 17 '25
All these Q-Anon idiots have made their entire personality the last 10 years about fighting the invisible predator cabal and… the call is coming from inside the house
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u/LawYanited Washington Jul 17 '25
Just like everything else they seem to scream and clutch pearls at. It’s fucking exhausting.
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u/BubblyBasis1134 Jul 18 '25
Q-Anon lived on boards where child porn was a known issue, and they were all like "We've really got to figure out where these pedophiles are!". It was never about the kids. It's just sad people LARPing to what ended up being a ridiculous level.
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u/Khazpar Jul 18 '25
It always blows my mind that Pizzagate basically boiled down to a bunch of people on 4Chan thinking "cheese pizza" was code for something, when they are the only ones who use it that way.
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u/theFinestCheeses Jul 18 '25
There was an absolute mountain of evidence connecting him with Epstein, multiple rape accusations, several accusations of sexually abusing minors, and dozens and dozens of counts of fraud that they let him wave away since literally the last millennium. It's ridiculous and delusional that they're suddenly like "Wait a second...I think Donald Trump might be connected to this in some way??"
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u/PuddingInferno Texas Jul 18 '25
This is a common misconception about Q-Anon; it’s framed as a crusade against pedophiles and demonic predators getting their comeuppance. That’s backwards.
The desire underneath all of Q-Anon is that their political enemies will be punished. The Clintons, Obama, the neighbor they loathe with the “Hate has no home here” sign in the yard - all of them will face justice. The government, or some sort of divine force, will swoop down and harm everybody they don’t like and then everything will be good and happy again.
The pedophile stuff is all just window dressing; it’s what they have to believe in order to justify a mass crackdown on everyone they don’t like.
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u/worststarburst Jul 18 '25
The call was always coming from inside the house. The whole movement gained most of it’s momentum on 8chan/8kun which where basically where all the pedos went when 4chan tried kicking them out. It’s always projection.
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u/MittenCollyBulbasaur Jul 17 '25
Trump would have abused his own children harder if it wasn't for his wives making him hesitate or him taking it out on them instead of his children.
Literally Republicans thought that behavior was worthy of the presidency
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u/Huge_Excitement4465 Jul 17 '25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6FZ5kj3FGo
The first few minutes of Ivanka’s tour of her childhood bedroom for the docu “Born Rich” raises questions for those fluent in body language.
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u/fattes I voted Jul 17 '25
Starts at 28 seconds but watch from the beginning to see the difference in her voice and body language.
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u/AnAwkwardJedi Jul 17 '25
Wow. That’s truly horrifying to watch. The complete change in her tone and posture from the other areas to her bed is very, very concerning.
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u/Clownzeption Jul 18 '25
She also very clearly says, "probably why I don't stay in here anymore," as if a small bed that can be easily replaced (especially at her family's level of wealth) is a reason to not wanna stay in the bedroom you grew up in.
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u/throoawoot Jul 17 '25
Oh my God. You weren't kidding.
You do not need to be an expert in body language to read that. She's got some dark memories involving her childhood bed.
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u/MillionEyesOfSumuru Washington Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 18 '25
"Katie Johnson" said that Trump liked that she was the same age as Ivanka (13 at the time), and she talked about wearing a blonde wig for him... which makes me curious about which was the earlier victim.
edit: I just looked up when Ivanka's video dates from, and she was 21 at the time. She said that the bedroom had been vacant for "10 plus" years, meaning she was 10-11 when she was last sleeping there. Damn.
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u/inplayruin Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 18 '25
Donald Trump's youngest daughter was about 13 when Trump claimed to have his falling out with Epstein. Trump has been less than forthcoming about the reason for their estrangement. Perhaps Jeffrey took something that Donald believed was his to take?
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u/NuclearLunchDectcted Oregon Jul 18 '25
One of the testimonies from the women (very young girls at the time) was that Trump and Epstein had a massive fight over who got to take one of the girls virginity. Using a crude form of the term as well, "pop her cherry."
Not sure if that's what you were implying, but that may be part of it.
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u/The_Beardly America Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 18 '25
This and a really strange picture of her, Trump, and Epstein - with Trump holding the back of her neck makes me believe she was a victim.
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u/FeteMolyneux Jul 18 '25
I remember seeing this and thinking — damn, that woman is holding back tears. That is traumatic memory. Horrifying. From the moment she enters that room she's pretending to be happy, but she can't after seeing the bed.
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u/brokenarrow Florida Jul 17 '25
Does she need an inheritance when her husband got a two billion dollar bribe from the Saudis while they were both federal employees?
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u/Meet_James_Ensor Jul 17 '25
It's never enough for these people. Sure they have a lot, but they spend a lot.
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u/Kamelasa Canada Jul 18 '25
I used to post this video about five years ago or so. So glad to see a lot of people posting it now. Not taking credit of course, but nice to see it is being seen. Some people would scoff at it, when I first posted and say they saw no real reaction. I say she blanched, froze, and ran, essentially. A trauma reaction.
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u/youhearditfirst Jul 17 '25
She has an interesting inflection with her voice. Her vowels don’t sound like a native English speaker.
And yes, the first few minutes are horrendous. Her body language especially with the bed is so telling.
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u/Loud_Octopus Jul 18 '25
I remember growing up I always felt like being president was a prestigious honor for men who at least presented dignity, decency and intelligence. I also thought they had to go through a serious series of things to qualify even being able to run and I was sure being a felon would be disqualifying. Boy, was I wrong.
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u/KynthSolace Jul 17 '25
Exactly. The more that comes out, the worse it looks. These powerful connections can’t keep being brushed aside people deserve the truth.
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u/caserock Jul 17 '25
"another wonderful secret"
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u/Prior_Coyote_4376 Jul 17 '25
I’m so glad those three words stuck out to someone else too.
“May every day be another wonderful secret”
— Donald Trump to his close friend Jeffrey Epstein
This is incredible
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u/ThatEvanFowler Jul 18 '25
I'm pretty sure that Thiel and Vance are making their move.
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u/Prior_Coyote_4376 Jul 18 '25
I hope so. I don’t want them to have time to set something new up. Palantir makes me nervous. Vance and Thiel both can’t lead MAGA and Elon is out with his America Party. If Trump steps down whether it’s his heart or Epstein, this fight gets a lot easier.
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u/ThatEvanFowler Jul 18 '25
I hope that’s true. I’m not at all certain that it is. Vance definitely seems a lot less bulletproof, but there appears to be less ammo in the box, and I worry about what capabilities that Thiel has that the public can only speculate upon.
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u/Flat_Helicopter_6171 Jul 18 '25
Ugh I hate that I sound like a conspiracy theorist but Vance did just post a hat that said Trump 2028. This is the exact kind of stupid shit they’d do to appear innocent while making their moves.
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u/zsaz_ch Jul 18 '25
Stuck out like a sore thumb, I said “oh gross” as soon as I read it. The whole thing was disgusting.
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u/DisastrousBall286 Jul 17 '25
Man, these guys WERE actually best pedo friends huh?
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The guy who made sexual comments about his own daughter might be a pedo.
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The guy who bragged about grabbing women by their genitals might be a pedo.
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u/quotidian_obsidian California Jul 18 '25
The guy who walked in on young girls in the dressing room of the Teen Miss America pageant might be a pedo.
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u/DownWithHisShip Jul 18 '25
The guy who bought and created the Teen Miss America pageant just to give himself the opportunity to walk around them while they're naked might be a pedo.
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u/tomdarch Jul 18 '25
Sadly it seems clear what a "wonderful secret" meant to them.
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u/Papplenoose Jul 18 '25
By the reading of that, it ALMOST appears that Donald Trump thinks that the secret to life is fucking little girls...
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u/mynewaccount5 Jul 18 '25
Why do you think Trump bought a teen girl pageant? I mean besides because he wanted to watch the girls as they dressed. It was a feeder organization for Epstein.
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u/PositiveZeroPerson Jul 17 '25
Donald: We have certain things in common, Jeffrey.
Jeffrey: Yes, we do, come to think of it.
Disgusting
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u/brokenmessiah Jul 17 '25
I honestly feel like Epstein was intentionally trying to setup things like this to blackmail people.
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u/AllowMe2Retort Jul 17 '25
He definitely was, I think this was actually how he became rich. He was just a teacher a posh school initially I think.
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u/LethaniDecider Jul 17 '25
I hope he DOES sue the WSJ so they can begin doing discovery. F-ing creep.
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u/Writer_In_Residence Jul 17 '25
Murdoch may be the one person who could get the mob to turn on Trump, now that the MAGA faithful are very shaky. Fox News all day every day railing on Trump for this.
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u/CherethCutestoryJD Jul 17 '25
They got their permanent tax cut. Now tariffs are hurting them, so this is a message from Murdoch to cut that shit out. And it'll work. Watch him back down from tariffs immediately.
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u/Droidaphone Jul 18 '25
Idk, I don’t think it will work, because Trump is long past being able to be reasoned with. This is why Putin is pissed at Trump now. Trump can’t stick to a plan anymore because he can’t remember a plan.
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u/TurboSalsa Texas Jul 17 '25
“I’m gonna sue The Wall Street Journal just like I sued everyone else,” he said.
That'll make everyone forget this whole thing.
Crybaby.
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u/NoelCanter Jul 17 '25
Wish all these coward papers didn’t cave because it was “cheaper.”
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u/SirDiego Minnesota Jul 18 '25
The fact they published this makes me think they're prepared to stand by it. It's the Wall Street Journal, they may have just buried it if they were at all scared.
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u/gmapterous Jul 17 '25
Jesus Christ...
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, have you noticed that?
Jeffrey: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you.Ew. Ewwwwwwwwwwww.
If this doesn't end Trump, nothing will.
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u/Mr_Pombastic Jul 18 '25
Maga's not mad that trump is a pedophile. They're mad that they can't use the epstein list against democrats.
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u/Meet_James_Ensor Jul 17 '25
Spoiler...nothing will...until his last hamberder clogs his heart.
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u/jediporcupine Maine Jul 17 '25
Donald Trump is a rapist and a pedophile.
Remember this the next time he claims his transphobia is about protecting young girls.
Remember this the next time anyone in his orbit makes this claim as they stand by a sex trafficking pedophile.
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u/Writer_In_Residence Jul 17 '25
Oh good, Captain Underpants is back.
The most shocking part of this is Trump knowing the word “enigma.”
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u/MagnusPI Jul 17 '25
“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, have you noticed that?
Jeffrey: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you.
Trump: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.
Jesus Christ. I'm not saying that's definitely about raping children. But I'm 100% not saying that it's not about raping children.
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u/StJeanMark Massachusetts Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 18 '25
I don’t believe anyone who claims to think otherwise. It’s a private hand signed letter to the most popular sex offender in history. We ALL know EXACTLY what this “inside joke” says.
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u/J-rdn Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 18 '25
Both men said that they subsequently had a falling-out. Trump has said their friendship ended before Epstein pleaded guilty to procuring a minor for prostitution in 2008, served time in a Florida jail and registered as a sex offender.
When Epstein was arrested again in 2019, Trump said he hadn’t talked to Epstein for about 15 years. “I knew him like everybody in Palm Beach knew him,” Trump said in the Oval Office at that time. “I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you.”
Trump’s spokeswoman told the Journal in 2023 that Trump had banned Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago club at some point in the past, without elaborating.
Maxwell, a British socialite, was convicted in 2021 of helping Epstein’s sex-trafficking and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Maxwell didn’t respond to a letter requesting an interview sent to her in prison. Arthur Aidala, an attorney representing Maxwell in her appeal, said, “At this point, she is focused on her case before the Supreme Court of the United States.”
Tap to unmute President Trump criticized a reporter's question about Jeffrey Epstein at a cabinet meeting on July 8. The FBI’s Epstein files Epstein’s associations with Trump and many powerful people have been well documented. There remain questions about what the FBI possesses about Epstein and his well-connected friends. In 2019, the FBI confiscated evidence from Epstein’s properties in the U.S. Virgin Islands and New York.
Earlier Tuesday, after the Journal sought comment from the president about the letter, Trump told reporters at the White House that he believed some Epstein files were “made up” by former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden and former FBI Director James Comey.
He said that releasing any more Epstein files would be up to Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Whatever she thinks is credible, she should release,” Trump said.
Allegations that bureaucrats covered up Epstein’s connections with participants in his trafficking scheme were fanned by people now in top roles in the Trump administration, including FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino.
In June 2024, Trump was asked in a Fox News interview whether he would release the Epstein case files. The Republican presidential candidate initially responded, “Yeah, I would.” But he also expressed some reservations. “You don’t want to affect people’s lives if it’s phony stuff in there, because it’s a lot of phony stuff with that whole world. But I think I would.”
Soon after she was confirmed as attorney general, Bondi said she was preparing to release new Epstein files. In late February, Bondi announced the release of “Phase 1” of the documents. But the material contained few new revelations, drawing criticism from right-wing influencers.
Rogan O'Handley, Chaya Raichik, Liz Wheeler, and Jack Posobiec at the White House holding binders titled "The Epstein Files: Phase 1". Attorney General Pam Bondi released documents on the Epstein case in February. Above, conservative influencers at the White House with the documents. Photo: Evan Vucci/Associated Press Bondi initially blamed the FBI’s New York office for withholding information and promised to release the remaining documents after redacting the victim’s names. Patel also said, “There will be no coverups, no missing documents and no stone left unturned.” They tasked hundreds of FBI employees to review the materials and prepare them for release.
The issue took on new life in June when Elon Musk, amid a public feud with Trump, alleged that the FBI was withholding documents from the Epstein case because Trump was in the files.
“The truth will come out,” Musk wrote on X on June 5. He later deleted the message and said he regretted some of his comments.
On July 7, the Justice Department backtracked on Bondi’s pledge to release more Epstein files. The Justice Department said that after an “exhaustive review” it had found no “incriminating client list” or additional documents that warrant public disclosure.
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee demanded this week that Republican Chairman Jim Jordan hold hearings on the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files and, if necessary, subpoena Bondi, Patel and Bongino.
At a cabinet meeting on July 8, Trump criticized a reporter for asking about Epstein. “Are people still talking about this guy, this creep?” Trump said. “That is unbelievable. Do you want to waste the time?”
That same day, Musk wrote on X: “How can people be expected to have faith in Trump if he won’t release the Epstein files?”
Write to Khadeeja Safdar at khadeeja.safdar@wsj.com and Joe Palazzolo at Joe.Palazzolo@wsj.com"
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u/accountabilitycounts America Jul 17 '25
This is the reason for the freakout. There's more.
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u/tomdarch Jul 18 '25
Reportedly this has been a "all hands on deck" thing at the White House to kill the story including Trump personally calling the editor of the WSJ:
https://www.status.news/p/wall-street-journal-trump-epstein-emma-tucker
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u/bsa554 Jul 18 '25
And there is NO WAY the WSJ of all papers would ever publish this unless they 100% KNEW it was real.
...and they might have more.
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u/WhyMustIMakeANewAcco Jul 18 '25
Not just knew it was real, but knew other people had it too.
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u/HereForTheComments57 Jul 17 '25
Drawn in heavy black marker. Isn't there a guy who was really good friends with Epstein, that is definitely not on the list that also doesn't exist, that uses heavy black markers to sign his name or change weather patterns?
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u/SgtNeilDiamond Jul 17 '25
Yeah Trump and Esptein were 100% fucking kids together. That entire 3rd person convo is fucking batshit crazy, we all know EXACTLY what theyre talking about.
Sick fucking piece of shit.
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u/thrust-johnson Jul 17 '25
We are mere inches away from MAGA becoming loudly and aggressively pro-child rape rather than admitting they got fooled AGAIN.
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u/ScotTheDuck Nevada Jul 17 '25
That reads like a wiretap of the fucking Gambinos.
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u/AzNmamba California Jul 17 '25
That letter by itself isn’t particularly damaging, it could’ve just been locker room talk between two creeps. But the fact that Trump is calling it fake and that he “never wrote a picture in his life” is hilariously damning. Dude is guilty as FUCK
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u/Meet_James_Ensor Jul 17 '25
The dementia is really messing up his response to this. Donnie from 2016 was better at cleaning up scandals.
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u/tomdarch Jul 18 '25
If you can stomach it, go back and watch some of his performances in 2016. It's gross, but you can understand how people found him "entertaining."
Then compare him to today. He has so completely lost "it". Why does the mob still support him?
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u/VladtheInhaler999 Jul 17 '25
Event horizon has been crossed, Maga voted to protect pedos and they will forever be marked with it
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u/ABCosmos Jul 17 '25
Republicans voted for this and Republicans own it. This is only possible due to universal support by the Republican party, if even a handful of them took a stand this would all be over.
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u/Explode-trip Jul 18 '25
And that's how it's been for the past decade.
For ten years now, if some dozen individuals who identify as Republican had stood for what's right, we could be living in a very different country.
All of this lays at the Republicans' feet.
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u/Zeen13 Jul 17 '25
This must be the article that Trump was calling Rupert Murdoch about earlier today, begging him to kill it.
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u/EnvironmentUnfair Jul 17 '25
He says: "Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret."
The closest thing you can get from acknowledgement
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u/moonwalkerfilms Jul 17 '25
Also references to things they have in common, certain enigmas that 'never age'...it reads like a creepy fucking code and genuinely makes my skin crawl
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u/Road_Whorrior Arizona Jul 18 '25
As with everything maga, PizzaGate was projection. The code words in written communications, or shitty little nods to the awful thing they enjoy together specifically. Should we be looking for hidden pedo symbols in architecture and logos?
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u/Driftedryan Jul 17 '25
Only a child rapist would say to another child rapist
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u/Prior_Coyote_4376 Jul 17 '25
Literally imagine writing a story about a sex trafficking ring and trying to come up with an all-but-incriminating line to add in a letter
This is exactly what I would probably pick
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u/OldBayOnEverything Maryland Jul 18 '25
It's exactly the type of shit he says when he thinks he's being clever. Just like "he likes woman as much as me, many of them on the young side." He's too stupid to realize how easily his secret messages are decoded.
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u/AnAwkwardJedi Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 18 '25
Anyone who has the ability to get behind the paywall needs to take screenshots of the whole thing and post the text here.
Edit: Wow. This is fucking creepy. People keep focusing on the drawing and that last line, but the rest of the letter is so much more creepy, unsettling, and damning, in my opinion.
The letter:
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, have you noticed that?
Jeffrey: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you.
Trump: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.
Fucking disgusting.
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u/vethereus Jul 18 '25
Bro we 1000000000000% have a pedo president covering up a pedo ring holy fucking shit
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u/tomdarch Jul 18 '25
Reporting indicates that Trump had everyone around him scrambling to try to kill the story, including Trump personally calling the editor of the WSJ:
https://www.status.news/p/wall-street-journal-trump-epstein-emma-tucker
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u/Neat_On_The_Rocks Jul 17 '25
I mean, what the fuck lol
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u/ADhomin_em Jul 17 '25
What the fuck.
Also, this is already the worst thing from a creative writing standpoint. Given the context, it's of course, much worse. But damn!
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u/TheUnrulyGentleman Jul 17 '25
I have the website to bypass the paywall, put the link in 3 minutes after the article was published and am still waiting in queue nearly 35 minutes later with about 20,000 ppl ahead of me.
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u/Icommandyou Washington Jul 17 '25
may every day be another wonderful secret
This is what Trump wrote to Epstein
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u/RetiredHotBitch Texas Jul 17 '25
Reminds me of an episode of SVU where they mentioned pedos talk to each other in code.
That’s all I see here.
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u/Cream253Team Washington Jul 18 '25
And in typical Trump fashion, it's not even cleverly thought up code words.
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u/not2dv8 Jul 17 '25
Keep this front and center. Do not let this go into the dark night
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u/LimitFinancial764 Jul 17 '25
Yes, but let MAGA folk push it.
If it starts to become MSM and liberal influencers pushing it, it becomes easier for MAGA to dismiss.
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u/AH171421 Jul 17 '25
Certified pedophile
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u/Am-Insurgent America Jul 18 '25
While president, Donald Trump made sexual comments about his daughter Ivanka in front of his employees that were so lewd and disturbing that he was rebuked by his one-time chief of staff John Kelly, a former Trump official writes in a new book.
“Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that prompted Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,” writes Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, in his new book, according to Newsweek.
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u/Snoo-11861 Jul 18 '25
Katie Johnson said that Trump told her she looked like her daughter who was the same age as her at the time (13 years old). If he didn’t rape his daughter, he definitely fulfilled a fantasy through Katie
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u/Megaphonestory Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
Wow. The media could have dropped all this in 2016. Before all the damage was done.
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u/quillsandquilts Jul 17 '25
I’m pretty sure Vanity Fair has been screaming this from the rooftops for the past 20 years. Just no one wanted to listen.
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u/AndISoundLikeThis Jul 17 '25
SPY magazine was telling us everything we needed to know long before Vanity Fair
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u/SausageClatter Jul 17 '25
The media could have done a lot more even sooner.
I wandered down to the pressroom on the fifth floor to hear about Trump’s testimony. The reporters sounded weary; they had heard it all before. “Goddamn it,” one shouted at me, “we created him! We bought his bullshit! He was always a phony, and we filled our papers with him!”
Excerpt from an article written in 1990.
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u/sirpuntalot Jul 17 '25
I mean the access Hollywood tape wasn’t enough… glad it seems like this is sticking though
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u/def_indiff Jul 17 '25
"May every day be another wonderful secret".
That could mean lots of things, probably. I know what I think it means, though.
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u/Careless_Platform449 Jul 17 '25
"Enigmas never age" kind of seals the deal here
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u/ImLikeReallySmart Pennsylvania Jul 17 '25
“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.”
So oddly specific that he's telling on himself again. Of course he wrote the note.
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u/skrztek Jul 17 '25
Yes, oddly specific in the same way as Epstein's pal Prince Andrew saying it couldn't have been him in that photo of him with Virginia Giuffre because the guy in the photo was sweaty and Prince Andrew is physically incapable of sweating.
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u/jediporcupine Maine Jul 17 '25
Does MAGA yet understand why Donald Trump is becoming defensive and angry the more he avoids the Epstein Files release?
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u/dangubiti Jul 17 '25
Trump gets a little older and all these enigmas stay the same age.
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u/Constant-Twist9233 Jul 17 '25
Don't forget Bill Barr's father hired Jeffrey Epstein as a teacher back in the day. Guess who was AG when Epstein died? Very interesting how these people are so intertwined, nothing to see here.
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u/SenorBurns Jul 17 '25
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.”
Wonder what kind of secrets P01135809 was referring to? 🤔
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u/aganalf Jul 17 '25
You see, what he meant by that was that he secretly loves America. Why won't you stupid liberals just let it go already. Fake news. /s
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u/KapahuluBiz Hawaii Jul 17 '25
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.
No wonder he's been freaking out about it for the last 2 days, lol.
Sometimes when big stories like this are revealed, the outlet that published the material will trickle out a little information at first, then see what the reaction is. Then when the subject tries to claim the stories are lies, the outlet publishes even more stuff. They did this with the Stormy Daniels story. They did this when it was revealed that Trump had invited Taliban negotiators to Camp David on the anniversary of 9/11. When the story is big, most press outlets will stretch out the news cycle to capture the biggest audience.
This is milder than I imagined, but I'm hoping that WSJ has even more stuff to make Trump look bad. If they do, it will be fun to watch Trump squirm even more the next couple days.
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u/Rrrrandle Jul 17 '25
WSJ going after Trump means they finally figured out he's going to royally fuck the economy.
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u/ttoma93 Jul 18 '25
More likely they know that the permanent tax cuts for the rich have been signed into law and they can dump him.
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u/ShweatyPalmsh Jul 17 '25
It would be funny to say “I don’t write letters to people!” Just for the WSJ to release letters Trump wrote to other people and then more he wrote to Epstein
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u/FortKnoxBoner Jul 18 '25
If this was ANY other President, Republican or otherwise, he would have resigned, or we would have impeached him.
This guy is like the slimy ex-con uncle sleeping on your couch, cursing in front of your kids, fondling your wife, and smashing your car....
And yet.. we are powerless against him???
Republicans HOLDING OFFICE are the boil on America's ass.
I AM SO ASHAMED OF MY COUNTRY.
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u/Mkmilz Jul 17 '25
Are the actual letters shown behind the paywall?
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u/climbut Jul 17 '25
No images of the actual letter in the article. They do state that the letter "was reviewed by The Journal" but no pics
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u/Adventurous-Tone-311 Jul 18 '25
Journal publishing this leads me to believe it is legit. They’re very conservative and are owned by Murdoch. This may signal the beginning of MAGA turning on him.
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u/ttoma93 Jul 18 '25
There is zero chance the WSJ of all publications would stake their credibility by publishing something like this—about the sitting president who’s known to be highly litigious, who they align with politically, and who is increasingly wielding authoritarian powers against his “enemies”—without their supporting evidence being completely ironclad.
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u/hillbillyspellingbee America Jul 17 '25
Somebody with a subscription, lemme see!
I tried the usual workarounds to no avail.
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u/PaymentTurbulent193 Jul 17 '25
I am so hoping this is his fucking downfall.
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u/Gregnice23 New York Jul 17 '25
Me too. Any other politician in the history of America would be undone by this. But this is a cult backed by social media and AI, so I am not expecting much.
However, if he loses half his base, his political power fades "bigly"
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u/TuxPaper Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
Who else is in this birthday album for Jeffrey Epstien? It feels like we could make a list of them...
Edit. From the article:
- businesspeople
- academics
- Epstein’s former girlfriends
- childhood pals
- Leslie Wexner
- Alan Dershowitz
- now-deceased Harvard economist
- former assistant
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u/aganalf Jul 17 '25
He could molest a child on Fifth Avenue and not lose a vote.
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u/DontForceItPlease Jul 17 '25
At this rate he probably already did.
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u/t_huddleston Jul 17 '25
No wonder he‘s been so desperate to change the subject - he knew this story was about to break. What a creep.
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u/Attentive_Senpai Jul 18 '25
Imagine being a QAnon person and throwing away your life and relationships because you think Donald Trump, accused pedophile, was going to be the guy to stop pedophiles, only to find out that, yes, he is in fact a pedophile. Absolute cinema, that.
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u/350 I voted Jul 17 '25
damn, he's a pedo. I mean, we knew, but now we also know now.
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u/beats-beets Jul 17 '25
Big if true. They’ll deny until they’re in the ground.
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u/gradientz New York Jul 17 '25
It has Trump's signature in a big black marker.
It's him.
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u/StevenHawkTuah Jul 17 '25
“I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women,” he said.
like, the one thing I can imagine Trump ever doodling is a pair of tits and some bush.
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u/BabyYodaX Jul 17 '25
Where are the "protect children/protect our girls" people?
Oh..that's right
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u/aganalf Jul 17 '25
“Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
What he meant by this was...
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u/rybl Illinois Jul 17 '25
The full text is so much worse. This seems like as close to a smoking gun as we'll ever get. There is no other way to read the full text other than Trump knew and participated. Literally the only defense is pretending that it's fake.
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u/shredmiyagi Jul 17 '25
I like how WSJ/Murdoch decided to unleash this now, after all this **** has been out for one to read on the internet for years. Yet no “deep recon” conspiracy Rogan or Tucker bothered paying any attention to it.
Was not releasing the Epstein report really the trigger? Or is this baked into Donald’s growing dementia/health? Or his nuclear handling of the economy, tariffs? Or is this really just getting back to Israeli stuff, since he did a flip is now supporting aggression in the Middle East (and Ukraine), after promising to be the peaceful ender of all wars?(lol)
I’m just waiting for next month’s amnesia to kick in. Although wsj has been ragging regularly on Trump since tariff liberation day. I don’t know why they assumed he was making them up every day of his campaign (and last presidency… uh, hr already started the chinese tariff war out of nowhere).
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u/RecipeFunny2154 Jul 17 '25
“Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
This is beyond creepy even if you had the slightest hint that Epstein was like this. Oof.
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u/ckglle3lle Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 18 '25
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein raped a 13 year old girl
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u/YOSHIMIvPROBOTS Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 18 '25
That's not normal shit to be writing in a birthday card. That's some sex creep shit.
EDIT: And to be clear, "sex generally" isn't the "secret". Half of Trump's brand has been sex his entire life. Illegal sex...now that's a secret.
And if this isn't real like Trump says, he'll be suing the WSJ by tomorrow morning, right? I have my doubts he's going to do it.
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u/Malaix Jul 18 '25
I don't know what a "wonderful secret" could possibly mean besides "Enjoy fucking 14 year old girls pal"
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u/Particular-Court-619 Jul 18 '25
I want to see how the same people who thought 'ordering pizza' somehow meant child molestation are going to excuse away a letter from Trump to a known pedophile ring leader that they have a lot in common and a shared wonderful secret.
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u/NewSlinger Jul 17 '25
Trump didn’t want you to see this. He really wouldn’t want you to upvote the article.
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u/Titan3692 Jul 17 '25
i hope this is the first of many leaks. i mean, you're telling me someone as senile as Joe Biden can take classified docs back to his house, but in this whole epstein thing, not a SINGLE person has gotten their hands on pics, letters, or other evidence? my hope is that it's out there somewhere and that the dam is about to break.
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