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/