Recommendations of the Editorial team
The right media world has been calling for more information about Jeffrey Epstein for years. When the Ministry of Justice under Donald Trump declared that no further materials were released in July, the outrage was short. Before you put the matter aside and put yourself behind the president again, although his name appears several times in the so-called Epstein files.
White house and Republicans continue to deny
Now the “Wall Street Journal” published a birthday letter addressed by Trump to Epstein from the early 2000s, which handed over the estate of the convicted sex offender to the congress. Spicy: Trump and his followers had previously vehemently dismissed the letter as an invention, the president even sued the newspaper to $ 10 billion. But the letter exists. Including clearly recognizable Trump signature.
Instead of welcoming the publication, Trump allies are now trying to present the letter as a fake. Press spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt wrote on X that Trump had neither drawn the picture nor signed the letter. Vice President JD Vance continued to call the reporting “bullshit”. The Republican Chair of the Supervisory Committee James Comer also said that he “believed” to the president. Speaker Mike Johnson joined. Trump himself described the topic as “done” in an interview with “NBC News”.
Several prominent Maga influencers such as Charlie Kirk and Benny Johnson said that the signature did not agree with Trump’s famous “EKG-Style” harpie autogram. But comparisons with documents from 1987 to 2006 show almost identical lettering. Even the “real” examples presented by Kirk and Johnson differ significantly from each other.
Facts against reality
Media such as “WSJ” and “New York Times” showed that the signature is authentic. Nevertheless, the Maga scene adheres to the story of a fake. The pattern is known: Those who deny reality long enough forces the public and the media to at least partially take over the narrative.
Trump supporters are already trying to use Epstein’s complicity Ghislaine Maxwell as a relief tool. She told the Ministry of Justice that Trump was always a “gentleman”. CNN moderator John Berman noted that their statements were little worth-but the debate is still watered down.