A shocking scandal, secrets, and always be asking questions late on a Friday ...

 

The now official newspaper for the donkey Democrats unleashed another yarn, this one by Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo.

It was of course, a hoax, fake news, all the fault of the bloody fraudulent files the Democrats compiled, cooked up, and then refused to release, part of their canny 4D chess ability to pander to conspiracy theorists ...

And suddenly they pulled off the biggest prize of all.

They turned the WSJ, as easy as the Ruskis turned the Cambridge Five ...

Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’ (sorry, paywall)

Immediately conspiracy theorists were all over the yarn. 

Have this addition to the Epstein files folklore got legs, has it got the sort of seven inch high heels that might help turn the MAGAt eye?

It was Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, and Ghislaine Maxwell was preparing a special gift to mark the occasion. She turned to Epstein’s family and friends. One of them was Donald Trump.
Maxwell collected letters from Trump and dozens of Epstein’s other associates for a 2003 birthday album, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. 
Pages from the leather-bound album—assembled before Epstein was first arrested in 2006—are among the documents examined by Justice Department officials who investigated Epstein and Maxwell years ago, according to people who have reviewed the pages. It’s unclear if any of the pages are part of the Trump administration’s recent review.
The president’s past relationship with Epstein is at a sensitive moment. The Justice Department documents, the so-called Epstein files, and who or what is in them are at the center of a storm consuming the Trump administration. On Wednesday, after angry comments about how the files are a hoax created by Democrats, President Trump lashed out at his own supporters for refusing to let the matter go.
The letter bearing Trump’s name, which was reviewed by the Journal, is bawdy—like others in the album. It 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.
The letter concludes: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
In an interview with the Journal on Tuesday evening, Trump denied writing the letter or drawing the picture. “This is not me. This is a fake thing. It’s a fake Wall Street Journal story,” he said.
“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.”
He told the Journal he was preparing to file a lawsuit if it published an article. “I’m gonna sue The Wall Street Journal just like I sued everyone else,” he said.

Oh yes, indeed he is, or he says he is ...

Is this another case of Hitler's diaries from the Murdochian mob, or do they have the mud to make it splatter and stick?

Allegations that Epstein had been sexually abusing girls became public in 2006 and he was arrested that year. Epstein died in 2019 in jail after he was arrested a second time and charged with sex trafficking conspiracy. 
Justice Department officials didn’t respond to requests for comment or address questions about whether the Trump page and other pages of the birthday album were part of the agency’s recent documents review. The FBI declined to comment.
The existence of the album and the contents of the birthday letters haven’t previously been reported. 
The album had poems, photos and greetings from businesspeople, academics, Epstein’s former girlfriends and childhood pals, according to the documents reviewed by the Journal and people familiar with them. 
Among those who submitted letters were billionaire Leslie Wexner and attorney Alan Dershowitz. The album also contained a letter from a now-deceased Harvard economist, one of Epstein’s report cards from Mark Twain junior high school in Brooklyn and a note from a former assistant that included an acrostic with Epstein’s name: “Jeffrey, oh Jeffrey!/ Everyone loves you!/ Fun in the sun!/ Fun just for fun!/ Remember…don’t forget me soon!/ Epstein…you rock!/ You are the best!”
Epstein was Wexner’s money manager at the time. The longtime leader of Victoria’s Secret wrote a short message that said: “I wanted to get you what you want… so here it is….”
After the text was a line drawing of what appeared to be a woman’s breasts. 
Wexner declined to comment through a spokesman. Wexner’s spokesman previously told the Journal that the retail mogul “severed all ties with Epstein in 2007 and never spoke with him again.”
Dershowitz’s letter included a mock-up of a “Vanity Unfair” magazine cover with mock headlines such as “Who was Jack the Ripper? Was it Jeffrey Epstein?” He joked that he had convinced the magazine to change the focus of an article from Epstein to Bill Clinton.
Dershowitz, who represented Epstein after his first arrest, said, “It’s been a long time and I don’t recall the content of what I may have written.”
The book was put together by a New York City bookbinder, Herbert Weitz, according to people who were involved in the process. Weitz, who died in 2020, listed Epstein as a client on his website in 2003. 
It isn’t clear how the letter with Trump’s signature was prepared. Inside the outline of the naked woman was a typewritten note styled as an imaginary conversation between Trump and Epstein, written in the third person.

Conspiracy theorists were immediately suspicious because it wasn't the actual note, it was a transcript:

Do they have the actual note, or did they merely sight it? 

What's its provenance? 

How will it stand up in court?

Did they decide to hold back the copy so they could run another story, a follow up to the opening tease?

Or does it have the strength and substance of cream lathered up to excite the taste buds?

Even more importantly, what's it mean? 

Conspiracy theorists will have to spend endless hours trying to decode King Donald's alleged attempt to do Shakspere ...

“Voice Over: There must be more to life than having everything,” the note began.
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.

Secrets? Certain things in common? A pal? Every day a wonderful secret?

What are these secrets? 

What is this Rosebud? (Devotees of Citizen Kane will know what that really means).

There was also a lot of back story in the WSJ yarn, much of it familiar to followers of the saga ...

For example ...

‘Jeffrey enjoys his social life’
When he turned 50, Epstein was already wealthy from managing Wexner’s fortune and was socializing with Trump, Clinton and other powerful people at his Manhattan townhouse, Palm Beach, Fla., home and private Caribbean island. 
A spokesman for Clinton referred to a 2019 statement that former President Clinton had cut off ties more than a decade before Epstein’s second arrest and didn’t know about Epstein’s alleged crimes.
Epstein and Trump spent time together in the 1990s and early 2000s and were photographed at social events, including with Maxwell and Melania Trump. A 1992 tape from the NBC archives shows Trump partying with Epstein at his Mar-a-Lago estate; Trump is seen pulling a woman toward him and patting her behind.
Trump, along with others including Clinton, also appeared several times on flight logs for Epstein’s private jet.
A 2002 New York magazine profile of Epstein quoted Trump. “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Trump said. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it—Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
Both men said that they subsequently had a falling-out. Trump has said their friendship ended before Epstein pleaded guilty to procuring a minor for prostitution in 2008, served time in a Florida jail and registered as a sex offender. 
When Epstein was arrested again in 2019, Trump said he hadn’t talked to Epstein for about 15 years. “I knew him like everybody in Palm Beach knew him,” Trump said in the Oval Office at that time. “I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you.”
Trump’s spokeswoman told the Journal in 2023 that Trump had banned Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago club at some point in the past, without elaborating. 
Maxwell, a British socialite, was convicted in 2021 of helping Epstein’s sex-trafficking and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Maxwell didn’t respond to a letter requesting an interview sent to her in prison. Arthur Aidala, an attorney representing Maxwell in her appeal, said, “At this point, she is focused on her case before the Supreme Court of the United States.”

And so on ...

No need to go on with the rest of that familiar recitation of a familiar tale.

The pond only notes all this fuss to ask some questions, always be asking questions.

Will King Donald really sue?

Has he heard of the Streisand effect?

How to obey King Donald's order to stop talking and move on, when this hoppy toad hops into the world?

In the WSJ of all places ...

Will we keep talking forever about a vast conspiracy?

Will the lizards of Oz run with the WSJ story?

That's the actual story they have fair dibs on because it ran in a kissing cousins rag.

This day they came at it indirectly using AFP as their source...

The AFP?!

Talk about a truly feeble effort ...

Sure there was a big splash on the front page featuring the best buddies...

And that snap of the bestest buddies returned to be top of the story, ma ...

It was pretty dour and dull, but finally the reptiles in the hive mind had ignored the risks of succumbing to the Streisand effect.

The header: Trump orders release of Epstein grand jury testimony, The President made the order after The Wall St Journal published a story about an off-colour letter he allegedly wrote to the disgraced financier.

The caption for those unaware of the best buddies: Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump. Picture: Getty Images.

Amazingly the reptiles could spare only two minutes of coverage, or so they clocked the read as running:

Donald Trump has ordered the release of grand jury testimony relating to Jeffrey Epstein, as he threatened to sue News Corp and The Wall St Journal over a story about an off-colour letter the President allegedly wrote to the disgraced financier.
The Journal story, which quickly reverberated around Washington, says the note to Epstein bearing Mr Trump’s signature was part of a collection of notes for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003. The newspaper says it reviewed the letter but did not print an image.
The Journal reports that this letter and others are among the documents examined by Justice Department officials who investigated Epstein and Maxwell years ago.
The documents, the so-called Epstein files, and who or what is in them are at the centre of a storm consuming the presidency, amid claims Mr Trump’s administration is covering up lurid details of Epstein’s crimes to protect rich and powerful figures.
On Wednesday, after angry comments about how the files are a hoax created by Democrats, President Trump lashed out at his own supporters for refusing to let the matter go.
On Friday (AEST), Mr Trump announced on his Truth Social platform: “Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney-General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval. This SCAM, perpetuated by the Democrats, should end, right now!”
The announcement came shortly after he claimed he had told The Journal the alleged letter was “a fake.”
According to the WSJ, the letter contains several lines of typewritten text, contained in an outline of a naked woman drawn with a marker.
“The future president’s signature is a squiggly ‘Donald’ below her waist, mimicking pubic hair,” the Journal reported.
“The letter concludes: ‘Happy Birthday – and may every day be another wonderful secret.’” MR Trump denied writing the letter or drawing the figure, telling the Journal: “This is not me. This is a fake thing.”
“I don’t draw pictures of women,” he said. “It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”
Epstein died by suicide in a New York prison in 2019 – during Mr Trump’s first term – after being charged with sex trafficking in a scheme where he allegedly groomed young and underage women for sexual abuse by the rich and powerful.
The Trump-supporting far-right has long latched on to the scandal, claiming the existence of a still-secret list of Epstein’s powerful clients and that the late financier was in fact murdered in his cell as part of a cover-up.
The Justice Department and FBI said in a memo made public earlier this month there was no evidence that the disgraced financier kept a “client list” or was blackmailing powerful figures.
They also dismissed the claim that Epstein was murdered in jail, confirming his suicide, and said they would not be releasing any more information on the probe.
On Thursday, several US media outlets reported that a federal prosecutor who handled Epstein’s case, who is the daughter of a prominent Trump critic, was abruptly fired.
Maurene Comey, whose father is former FBI director James Comey, was dismissed Wednesday from her position as an assistant US attorney in Manhattan, several major US outlets reported.
Ms Comey also prosecuted Ghislaine Maxwell, the only former Epstein associate who has been criminally charged in connection with his activities.
Maxwell is the person who compiled the leather-bound book of letters for Epstein in 2003, The Journal reported.
AFP

That's it? That's all they had?

Is the WSJ going to take a big fall? Is that why the lizard Oz hacks are for the moment standing well clear?

Now that the log jam has broken, now that the beavers surrounding of the hive mind with logs has given away, will we now see a steady stream of conspiracy-related stories saturating the hive mind.

Questions, questions, always be asking questions.

Chief amongst them, how will Faux Noise cope? Will they still be able to cease and desist as ordered? And what of Sky Noise down under?