Enigmas Never Age
May every day be another wonderful…secret? Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal published new revelations about the relationship between financier/pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump. For Epstein’s 50th birthday, his longtime partner Ghislaine Maxwell put together a leather-bound book with notes from his friends. One was allegedly written and signed by Trump.
Trump’s entry “contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts, and the future president’s signature is a squiggly ‘Donald’ below her waist, mimicking pubic hair,” reports The Wall Street Journal. The text within the naked-lady outline appears to be an imagined conversation between Epstein and Trump. “Voice Over: There must be more to life than having everything,” the note begins.
Donald: Yes, there is, but I won’t tell you what it is.
Jeffrey: Nor will I, since I also know what it is.
Donald: We have certain things in common, Jeffrey.
Jeffrey: Yes, we do, come to think of it.
Donald: Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?
Jeffrey: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you.
Trump: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday—and may every day be another wonderful secret.
“This is not me,” said Trump. “This is a fake thing. It’s a fake Wall Street Journal story. I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women,” he said. “It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”
Epstein has a long track record of sexually abusing young girls. He died in 2019 in jail under circumstances still debated to this day (suicide? Offed by someone who wanted him dead?) after being arrested by the FBI on sex trafficking charges. This was his second round: In 2008, he had pleaded guilty to a state charge of procuring a minor for prostitution and served 18 months; he had received extraordinarily lenient treatment in prison, which sure looked a bit like corruption. His associate/girlfriend, Maxwell, was convicted in 2021 for sex trafficking and conspiracy, helping Epstein procure girls as young as 14 for prostitution.
An outstanding question is how much his rich and famous friends knew about his perversions and horrifying crimes. “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years,” Trump told New York magazine back in 2002. “Terrific guy.”
“It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side,” said Trump. “No doubt about it—Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
Trump appears all over Epstein’s flight logs, indicating he took trips with him on his private jet: Trump’s name appears four times in 1993, once in 1994, once in 1995, and once in 1997. One of Epstein’s victims said she was recruited by Epstein while at Trump’s club, Mar-a-Lago, and that she was “passed around like a platter of fruit” as a teenager to the rich and famous of Palm Beach. (The woman who was abused as a teenager died by suicide earlier this year.)
Trump’s base has long been riled up about what the government might be hiding about Epstein, and Trump has at times stoked this, at other times hedged, saying that there might be “phony stuff in there.” The Department of Justice and the FBI under Trum
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