https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-9-2025
"As Joe Perticone outlines in
The Bulwark today, Republican lawmakers are
greeting the release of the lewd letter in Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book
depicting the outline of a child and apparently signed by Donald Trump either
by saying they don’t care or by denying the signature is Trump’s. For this to
be true, someone would have had to have slipped the letter into the book when
it was bound in leather in 2003, a story that makes no sense at all. But, as
J.V. Last of
The Bulwark notes, Trump and his loyalists, including White
House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, are insisting the letter is a hoax.
Last speculates this is the route they’re taking because claiming proof that
Russian operatives worked to elect Trump in 2016 was a “hoax” mostly worked,
because claiming the letter is a hoax is a loyalty test, or because Trump knows
what else is out there and is setting a marker to declare any more revelations
a lie.
Or, perhaps, all three."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
