Donald Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein’s headache continued this week in a new report on his relationship with Epstein and his continued call for transparency.
The Epstein Files reveal, Trump’s reaction
President Trump called for further disclosure regarding the Epstein case after many people requested the release of the so-called “client list.”
- Trump filed a slander lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and its owner, Mediamoglurupertmurdoch.
- The President denied the Wall Street Journal’s July 17 report. He said that Jeffrey Epstein wrote Skeb’s letter for Bose Day 50th.
- Trump previously asked Attorney General Pam Bondy to seek court permission to testify from a major public ju court from Epstein’s investigation.
WASHINGTON – If the last 24-hour news cycle is any indication, President Donald Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein’s headache is not over yet.
The Wall Street Journal reported on the evening of July 17 that Trump had sent Epstein’s mysterious letter for his 50th birthday. Trump called the birthday letter “fake” and vowed to sue him on the Truth Social Post on July 17th.
Trump has long denied the cheating of his friendship with Epstein, reportedly ended more than a decade ago.
Still, within hours of publication of the news report, the president indicated that his administration would be attempting to release testimony related to Epstein’s sex trafficking case. This was still pending when it was discovered that Epstein had died in a prison cell in 2019.
It was partially troublesome for Trump after his Justice Department released the memo on July 7th. He said that Epstein’s further disclosures were not justified. However, it is not clear which parts of the government’s Epstein file are being addressed by its testimony.
Finally, it remains to be seen whether Trump’s base will be satisfied over the years, suggesting that the top officials of the administration have hidden government secrets in Epstein and that if Trump is re-elected, they will reveal them.
This is the latest in the Trump administration and Epstein:
Wall Street Journal Report: “We have something in common, Jeffrey.”
The Wall Street Journal Report describes the album in a letter that Epstein’s longtime girlfriend Gislain Maxwell (who sues Epstein for her 2021 conviction of trafficking minors) compiled in 2003 for Epstein’s 50th birthday.
The letter the Wall Street Journal is saying is from Trump, which he denies, and includes a type-writing dialogue between “Donald” and “Jeffrey” and later “Trump.” “Donald” says, “Jeffrey and Jeffrey have something in common” and “Donald.” The dialogue says “Trump” and “My mates are amazing. Happy birthday – and every day it could be another great secret.”
The dialogue is wrapped in the seemingly hand-drawn outlines of a naked woman, the journal reported. The letter mimics embarrassing the embarrassment of the letter, the newspaper said, with a pair of arcs showing a woman’s breasts and a wavy signature of “Donald.”
USA Today was unable to confirm the details or origin of the letter.
“These aren’t my words, they’re not the way I speak, and I don’t draw,” Trump posted on Truth Social on July 17th. On July 18, the president sued Dow Jones & Company, the Wall Street Journal publisher, and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, claiming that the story amounted to honorable lib and slander.
Trump’s friendship with Epstein burst around 2004. Trump hasn’t explained why, but the 2019 Washington Post story explains the power struggle that year between two men over the Oceanfront Palm Beach Mansion. In 2008, Epstein was convicted of a sex crime involving a minor.
Trump’s passive Epstein concession. Is that enough?
Even Republican allies are putting more pressure on the president than the Epsteinfile this week.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, said in an interview with right-wing media personality Benny Johnson on July 15th that the government should “put everything there and let people decide.”
R-Kentucky MP Thomas Massie and R-Colorado MP Lauren Boebert co-hosted the law co-hosted earlier this week to announce the government’s Epstein Records.
Trump became tolerant at least to some extent – later July 17th, after a few hours after the Wall Street Journal report.
“Based on the outrageous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I asked Attorney General Pam Bondy to generate all relevant large ju court testimony, subject to court approval,” Trump posted to The Society of Truth.
The next day, Bondy’s deputy commander, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, made the request to the New York Federal Court.
It is clear that the president hopes that his Epstein-centric followers will move on now.
“If Epstein had a ‘smoking gun’, why did Demus, who controlled the ‘File’ for four years and was in charge of Garland and Comey, didn’t use it? Trump posted July 18 to The Truth Society, referring to former Attorney General Merrick Garland, who served under President Joe Biden, and former FBI director James Comey, whom Trump fired in 2017 following an investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign.
This story has been updated with additional information.
