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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"I don't draw pictures of women."
When the story first came out, he was quoted as saying, I never wrote a picture in my life. I dont draw pictures of women.
Seems he was actually telling a half truth. This looks more like a little girl.
https://images.wsj.net/im-47517422?width=700&size=0.794&pixel_ratio=1.5
ret5hd
(22,588 posts)Boxing Helena was a good movie.
yardwork
(69,647 posts)Irish_Dem
(82,369 posts)Hey Joe
(814 posts)filth in his miserable life.
Although these days he mostly just draws flies.
mercuryblues
(16,515 posts)He gets fly larvae.
LetMyPeopleVote
(182,091 posts)Republicans had to choose: acknowledge the letter as legitimate or insist that a Trump-signed document wasnt actually a Trump-signed document.
Thereâs an approach to reality that says a Trump-signed document isnât actually a Trump-signed document.
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-09-09T13:13:45.110Z
Itâs the same approach that says job numbers are fake. And polls are fake. And election results are fake. And science is fake. And evidence of crimes is fake. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-house-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-book-donald-trump-rcna230024
A copy of the book submitted to Congress (which was not reviewed by MSNBC) included a typed message, inside the outline of a womans torso, that read, in part, A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday and may every day be another wonderful secret. At the bottom of the message is a signature that appears to be Donald Trumps.
The image looks like the one the Journal described in July.
......White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed that its very clear that Trump didnt draw the figure or sign the letter. Other White House officials pushed the same line, and true to form, several congressional Republicans soon followed, echoing the new party line.
At face value, the pushback was and is difficult to take seriously. The signature on the letter resembles other documents from that era that Trump signed.
ThAtâa nOt TrUmPâs SiGnAtUrE www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-09-08T21:38:29.142Z
For that matter, its difficult to imagine how the document in question couldve been fabricated in the first place. As CNNs Aaron Blake summarized, The key fact here is that this comes from Epsteins estate. In other words, for this letter to have been fake, someone would have had to plant it in Epsteins possessions a long time ago, somehow........
Theres a quote thats often attributed to political theorist Hannah Arendt: This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. As it happens, Arendt didnt actually say this (at least not exactly), but the quote resonates because of its salience:
Trump obviously tries to get people to believe lies all the time, but nearly as often, the president and his allies try to get people to give up on the idea that facts exist. With too many Americans, these tactics are effective, which helps explain why theyve become so common.
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