Trump gets hit with a birthday card boomerang

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Trump gets hit with a birthday card boomerang
He's the POTUS who called "hoax." How can anyone still believe him?

By Heather Digby Parton
Columnist
Published September 9, 2025 9:00AM (EDT)


(Salon) If there’s anyone who deserves to be harassed by a conspiracy theory, it’s President Donald Trump. The man has been pushing them himself for decades, and now one of them has come back to bite him hard. The Epstein scandal is clearly driving him crazy, and he only has himself to blame.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which the president apparently believed to be under his control, subpoenaed the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, demanding they turn over all relevant papers to the committee, and on Monday they did just that. By Monday afternoon, at least two documents became public — and they were damning.

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The message is disturbing, intimating that the two men were very close, had a lot in common and shared “a wonderful secret” about how “enigmas never age.” Based on what we already know about Epstein, you don’t have to be a cryptanalyst to read between the lines. The lewd drawing appears to be of a budding young female, which only adds to the creepiness.

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Live by the conspiracy theory, die by the conspiracy theory. But long before Epstein, Trump had been working the levers of the tabloid scandal machine. This history meant he was uniquely suited for the right-wing swamp of the late aughts, which had been turbo-charged by email, blogs and, finally, social media, to spread rumors and lies more quickly than ever before. The man who started his career by being sued, along with his father, for racial discrimination, and demanded the death penalty for the Central Park Five — who turned out to be innocent — became the perfect person to push the lie that Barack Obama, America’s first Black president wasn’t born in the U.S. It was that birther lie that put Trump on the political map and made him a hero of the right. ..................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/09/09/trump-gets-hit-with-a-birthday-card-boomerang/

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1. Let me know when he gets hit with an actual boomerang.

Preferably the one the kid used in the movie “The Road Warrior”.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. MaddowBlog-Why the White House's unpersuasive pitch on the 'birthday book' seems so familiar

Republicans had to choose: acknowledge the letter as legitimate or insist that a Trump-signed document wasn’t actually a Trump-signed document.

There’s an approach to reality that says a Trump-signed document isn’t actually a Trump-signed document.

It’s the same approach that says job numbers are fake. And polls are fake. And election results are fake. And science is fake. And evidence of crimes is fake. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-09-09T13:13:45.110Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-house-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-book-donald-trump-rcna230024

Eight weeks later, the story took a rather dramatic turn. My MSNBC colleague Erum Salam reported on the new batch of material from the Epstein estate released by Democrats on the U.S. House Oversight Committee — including the contents of the so-called “birthday book.” From the report:

A copy of the book submitted to Congress (which was not reviewed by MSNBC) included a typed message, inside the outline of a woman’s torso, that read, in part, ‘A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.’ At the bottom of the message is a signature that appears to be Donald Trump’s.

The image looks like the one the Journal described in July.

BREAKING: House Oversight Committee Dems posted this photo of what appears to be Trump's birthday note to Epstein.

Trump previously denied the note and drawing's existence. MSNBC has not independently verified the drawing. The WH has denied the signature belongs to the president.

— MSNBC (@msnbc.com) 2025-09-08T20:02:54.216Z

......White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed that it’s “very clear” that Trump didn’t draw the figure or sign the letter. Other White House officials pushed the same line, and true to form, several congressional Republicans soon followed, echoing the new party line.

At face value, the pushback was — and is — difficult to take seriously. The signature on the letter resembles other documents from that era that Trump signed.

ThAt’a nOt TrUmP’s SiGnAtUrE www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-09-08T21:38:29.142Z

For that matter, it’s difficult to imagine how the document in question could’ve been fabricated in the first place. As CNN’s Aaron Blake summarized, “The key fact here is that this comes from Epstein’s estate. In other words, for this letter to have been fake, someone would have had to plant it in Epstein’s possessions a long time ago, somehow.”.......

There’s a quote that’s often attributed to political theorist Hannah Arendt: “This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.” As it happens, Arendt didn’t actually say this (at least not exactly), but the quote resonates because of its salience:

Trump obviously tries to get people to believe lies all the time, but nearly as often, the president and his allies try to get people to give up on the idea that facts exist. With too many Americans, these tactics are effective, which helps explain why they’ve become so common.

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4. TY for this.

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3. Well done, Salon...

TY kick.