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The Wall Street Journal @WSJExclusive: For Jeffrey Epsteins 50th birthday, friends created a book of bawdy letters. One was from Donald Trump.

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Trump personally called the WSJ's editor to keep this story under wraps.
Totally not suspicious behavior.
article, no paywall: https://archive.md/2025.07.17-225639/https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796
SheltieLover
(81,720 posts)bigtree
(94,672 posts)...I think they're keeping some things in reserve.
They have to know he's coming for them.
And isn't it something how concerned he is about it to call the editor?
malaise
(297,964 posts)Before making it public
SheltieLover
(81,720 posts)Fucking sharpie drawings...
malaise
(297,964 posts)Eff with world trade at your peril - eff with American tourism interests at your peril eff with agriculture at your peril. - stay away from fans
SheltieLover
(81,720 posts)malaise
(297,964 posts)😂
Lawrence is on fire
SheltieLover
(81,720 posts)emulatorloo
(46,155 posts)electric_blue68
(27,323 posts)electric_blue68
(27,323 posts)malaise
(297,964 posts)exposes Vance s ambition for demanding the letter😀😂😀
SheltieLover
(81,720 posts)I hope they publish it.
Sharpie drawings...
electric_blue68
(27,323 posts)Last edited Thu Jul 17, 2025, 11:35 PM - Edit history (1)
Tribetime
(7,145 posts)I don't.
Want to have flashbacks of bush and the national guard
emulatorloo
(46,155 posts)Pretty sure WSJ legal department dotted every i and crossed every t, given the litigious nature of Trump/
Tribetime
(7,145 posts)Nobody else is denying it except for Trump.So I think you're right
emulatorloo
(46,155 posts)newdeal2
(5,610 posts)I think WSJ has a copy and will release it in a day or two.
Farmer-Rick
(12,786 posts)It may have been in Playboy or another adult magazine. No one thought it was about little girls back then.
The photograph of the drawing was in the background not the subject of the story; kind of an aside.
DET
(2,600 posts)Trumps letter to Epstein is being treated as a major revelation. But everyone knows they were friends (at least as much as two psychopathic pedophiles can be). Trumps letter was crude, but everyone knows that Trump is a pig, even the MAGAts - and they like it. The letter contradicts Trumps allegation that there are no Epstein files, but again everyone knows that he is a veteran liar. And the letter does not directly implicate Trump in pedophilia (although it skirts around the edges). So why the excitement?
TomSlick
(13,092 posts)If Trump didn't think it harmful, he would not be threatening a lawsuit.
My prediction is that Trump never files a lawsuit. The exhibits in public filings and discovery would be devastating.
Blue Full Moon
(3,651 posts)Blue Full Moon
(3,651 posts)I think that the WSJ has more.
Sogo
(7,303 posts)nt
Scott Alan Swaggerty
(355 posts)Lovie777
(23,742 posts)with minors, so does the 6 RW US SC justices as well as many high level republicans and yet they are looking the other way.
I am pissed.
UTUSN
(77,795 posts)
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