President protests too much: Trump’s denial of Epstein is fighting back | Donald Trump

Trump chronicler Maggie Haberman cuts the chase: If Trump does not sign a birthday card or other documents released by Jeffrey Epstein’s property, the reporter asked in a quiet and persistent tone, what is his theory of working there?

“The president is one of the most famous signatures in the world,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Answer Tuesday. “The president didn’t write that letter. He didn’t sign the documents.”

Leavitt will have to do better. The typing message inserted into the sketch outline of naked women looks like convincing evidence that the relationship between the U.S. president and the world’s most notorious pedophile sex traffickers is convincing.

Tuesday’s press conference at the White House was the latest demonstration of the scandal that Epstein’s archives were a rejection of death. Leavitt threw Roman candles, Catherine wheels and smoke bombs in the air, hoping to distract journalists. But she can’t get rid of the suspicious suspicion Donald Trump There is something to hide.

The White House is usually filled with cream shops and swaggers, this time because Trump is not doing well. Over the years, he reversed the politician’s script by his loud and flaunting misconduct in public. Hillary Clinton accused him of evading taxes during a presidential debate in 2016, Trump refuted: “That makes me very smart.”

But now, he acts like something he always laughs at: a typical politician. Watergate was fatal to Richard Nixon because it was covered up, but reporters raised valuable information to collect. British Vice Prime Minister Angela Rayner spent more than a year Right wing press review Her financial situation was before being forced to tax under taxes on apartments this week.

As he promised on the campaign, the old Trump would do the opposite and released all Epstein archives, even if they committed crimes in person. It’s better to brag it, lie and deploy some labor, rather than extending the stench of confidentiality.

Instead, he accused journalists of deliberation on the topic. Tuesday, this man usually comments on everything Tell NBC News: “I don’t comment on this being a dead question.”

He also tried his best to clear his name. He became the first president to sue the media for defamation. File a lawsuit The Wall Street Journal targeted Rupert Murdoch to report on birthdays and letters. If the case goes on, the journal’s lawyers may well have a chance to remove Trump’s relationship with Epstein.

In July, Trump’s Justice Department interviewed colleague Epstein Ghislaine Maxwellfinanciers were sentenced to 20 years in prison for recruiting underage girls. The department later released transcripts and recordings of the interviews, and Maxwell said Trump was “inappropriate with anyone.” She then moved from a prison in Florida to a minimum, minimum security facility in Texas.

The frenzy has left Trump’s clumsy team on unfamiliar territory. When Congressional Democrats released their birthday letter in 2003, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich posted various photos on Trump’s signature over the years, writing: “This is not his signature” – convincing.

In Tuesday’s briefing, Leavitt provided a similar defense, meaning crafty time travelers must skip 22 years to plant Trump’s signature in the document so they can try to blow up his future presidency.

but She insists: “I didn’t say the files are a scam. I said the whole narrative surrounding Jeffrey Epstein is absorbing the scams of many free-cable channels on TV, which is a scam that is being permanently present by opportunist Democrats.”

The Secretary of the Department of Information told what she said: “The scam is that Democrats pretend to care about the victims of crime when they don’t care about the victims of crime.”

This time it won’t be washed, because Democrats smell the blood, because Trump’s own supporters are still fixed, and because the president’s refusal to release Epstein’s archives will only add to the plot. Trump’s response to the scandal is very non-Trump. There is nothing to do to inspire people to guess that their page contains something truly devastating.