The Epstein flailings

In response to the obviously real and obviously creepy birthday letter he wrote to Epstein, Trump is trying out a new explanation but his heart doesn’t seem to be in it:

Donald Trump’s latest tactic of bringing up Barack Obama’s administration every time someone asks him about Jeffrey Epstein is getting downright ridiculous. 

Speaking to the press outside of the White House Friday, Trump once again denied writing a “bawdy” birthday message for Epstein in 2003 as part of a book of birthday notes for the alleged sex offender. 

“I don’t even know what they’re talking about. Now, somebody could have written a letter and used my name, that’s happened a lot,” Trump said. 

But the president wasn’t satisfied with simply answering the question—he took a moment to return to his favorite subject. 

“All you have to do is take a look at the dossier, the fake dossier,” Trump continued. “Everything’s fake with that administration. Everything’s fake with the Democrats. Take a look at what they just found about the dossier. Everything is fake, they’re a bunch of sick people.”

And Russiagate (although of course not everything in the Steele Dossier, which was never presented as anything but oppo research of varying reliability) was real too by the way.

Meanwhile, he’s letting his vice president flop around like a dying fish, and in fairness nobody deserves to be made to look ridiculous more:

the JD stands for Jeffrey Defender

[image or embed]— Jake Grumbach (@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social) Jul 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM

There’s “Rupert Murdoch is acting like a Democratic SuperPAC,” and then there is an explanation that makes sense. For further context, this is the guy who accused legal immigrants of eating dogs and cats, with the rigorous sourcing of “someone said it on Twitter.” He may have even convinced himself that everyone is as much an amoral liar as he is, but it ain’t so.