cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35643866
From Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/house-democrats-release-alleged-trump-birthday-letter-epstein-2025-09-08/
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released the letter after Congress received the 2003 "birthday book" from Epstein's lawyers, the Journal reported on Monday. The letter is dated three years before allegations of sex abuse by Epstein became public in 2006.
The letter contains text of a purported dialogue between Trump and Epstein in which Trump calls him a "pal" and says, "May every day be another wonderful secret." The text sits within a crude sketch of the silhouette of a naked woman.
White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich denounced the release, saying the signature on the letter is not Trump's and alluding to Trump's lawsuit against the Journal's parent company, News Corp.
21 Comments
Steve@startrek.website · 21 pts · 351d
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 351d
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 351d
Definitely the drawing of an innocent and completely normal person who has never raped any children
lazynooblet@lazysoci.al · 6 pts · 351d
Holy shit I thought the body outline was added as a meme.
Little8Lost@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 350d
I thought so too
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 351d
Didn’t Colbert have a release of this like a month ago?
LesserAbe@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 351d
The text of the note had been reported previously, but the actual image/layout had not been released
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 351d
Ah that’s it. They must have also included the description of the drawing around the text, and the location of the signature, because goddamn Colbert had a decent replica of this a long time ago.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 351d
He auctioned off some of his doodles years ago BTW
snailboy@leminal.space · 6 pts · 351d
That sucks.
CaptSneeze@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 351d
This simple comment literally made me LOL. Chef’s kiss.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 351d
Has he tried to blame AI yet? On September 2nd, 2025, I heard Trump say in a press conference that if something really bad happens, he might have to blame AI
july@leminal.space · 2 pts · 351d
r/trump rn:
schwim@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 351d
Lt. Col. Bonespurs wouldn't know how to use "enigma" in a sentence and he sure as hell wouldn't be able to spell it properly.
Laser@feddit.org · 4 pts · 351d
He used the term in one of his political speeches, though I think it was first term. I know because that exact point came up when the letter text surfaced and people argued this
onslaught545@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 351d
Now, yes, but even in 2016 he had shown significant cognitive decline from a decade or two before.
But that's moot since I'm sure he had someone else type it up and he drew the underage girl on it.
LesserAbe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 351d
You're saying he didn't write this note?
BussyGyatt@feddit.org · 1 pts · 351d
i'm like 55% sure he's only pretending to be stupid so people will constantly misunderestimate him.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 351d
I believe that he's pretending to be stupider than he is for this reason, but I also think he is actually stupid also.
BussyGyatt@feddit.org · 2 pts · 351d
you know what I love about fedi? the votes. unironically. Everyone skipped over voting me because my opinion sucked and it found your better opinion. I know for a fact humans did that shit. Good Job Fedi.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 351d
Nope. People with narcissistic personality disorder are simply unable to play dumb. Trump believes every word that comes out of his mouth. From the outside, that seems fucking nuts so we come up with explanations from our own experience. "If I did that, what would I have been thinking?"
Mom had NPD, and while she's the worst case I've known IRL, still, nothing like Trump. Unless you've spent a great deal of time around someone who most literally cannot believe they are wrong, or ever have been wrong, it's all but impossible to get your head around it.