If Donald Trump’s intention is to convince his supporters that he is not involved in any conspiracy surrounding the serial sexual abuser and alleged trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, he’s failing miserably at every turn.
After months of vehemently denying that he wrote a birthday message to Epstein in 2003 that included the line “may every day be another wonderful secret”, the note has now been made public. And to the lay observer (and a handwriting expert that compared the signature to other verified signatures from Trump around the same time), wouldn’t you know it, the penmanship bears a striking resemblance to the president’s.
Demonstrators hold banners during a news conference at the US Capitol demanding more transparency on Jeffrey Epstein.Credit: AP
In the same birthday book, which was made public by Democrats earlier this week, was a photograph of Epstein holding up a giant cheque made out to him and signed by “DJ Trump”. Underneath the photo, a handwritten note reads, “Jeffrey showing early talents with money and women! Sells ‘fully depreciated’ [female name redacted] to Donald Trump for $22,500.”
This came on the back of last week’s “unfortunate coincidence” in Washington, where military fighter jets flew over the Capitol at the exact time as a handful of Epstein’s victims were speaking, effectively drowning them out.
While the White House denied the jets were deployed as a means of intentionally silencing the women as they publicly pleaded with lawmakers to release the Epstein files, Republican Thomas Massie, one of the few to cross the party line on this issue, said he understood that the flyover was approved after the press conference had been announced. “There is no limit to the weapons of mass distraction the White House will go to try and make this go away,” Massie said.
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That, of course, came on the back of the Department of Justice and FBI announcing in July that they had completed their review into the Epstein files and had nothing further to share with the public, despite Attorney General Pam Bondi saying in February that she had an Epstein client list sitting on her desk.
As Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, an avowed conspiracy theorist who has historically been loyal to Trump but appeared alongside Epstein’s victims and Massie in Washington last week, said of the Epstein files and their release, “This is not about politics. This is a boiling point in American history.”
But for Trump, everything is political, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore that the conspiracy theorists who helped return him to power, that he once believed were unwaveringly loyal to him, actually answer to a higher power. Sure, they may admire him; perhaps they even respect him. But their loyalty, above all else, is to uncovering what they believe is the truth.