CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Hits Trump With Pile of Receipts on Creepy Epstein Letter Denial
CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins dropped a pile of receipts on President Donald Trump over his denials about the newly-released birthday letter to deceased sex criminal and former Trump pal Jeffrey Epstein — which Trumpworld says was not signed by the president.
Trump flipped out and sued the WSJ after it dropped a hotly anticipated profile of the Trump-Epstein relationship that included a highly suggestive note — the existence of which Trump’s attorneys vehemently denied.
That note — a cryptic 2003 birthday message framed by a crude doodle of a naked woman with a bushy signature where the pubic hair would be — was released by the House Oversight Committee on Monday. It was part of a trove of materials provided by the Epstein estate.
The White House and a phalanx of Trump allies immediately insisted the signature was not genuine.
On Monday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, the anchor cast doubt on those denials by displaying a series of similar signatures from the era — including a book inscription describing Epstein as “the best”:
COLLINS: When this story was first published, the Vice President said that the Wall Street Journal‘s initial reporting that the letter even existed was, quote, “Complete and utter bullsh*t.”
The President himself sued The Journal for billions, and his attorneys insisted, in court filings, that this letter was, quote, “Nonexistent,” and that “No authentic letter or drawing exists.”
The President’s son, Eric Trump, echoed that sentiment, just tonight.
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ERIC TRUMP, AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S SON: My father does not sketch out cartoon drawings.
It’s no different than the Russian hoax. I mean, listen, The New York Times, the same people who are going to, by the way, try and do everything they can to keep me from becoming the number one best- seller, you better believe, they were the ones that got Pulitzer Prizes for writing about the Russia hoax, something that was untrue. And they didn’t even give back the prizes, right? I mean, this is the level of dementia in the mainstream media.
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COLLINS: Now, immediately after Democrats published that picture, I just showed you, the White House’s immediate reaction was to focus on the signature, which is different from the ones that we’re used to seeing lately, at the bottom of so many of the president’s executive orders that he’s been signing.
The White House press secretary tweeted, quote, “It’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it.”
The deputy White House chief of staff said, quote, “It’s not his signature.”
And of course, when you look at the signature, you can judge for yourself. There’s a lot of examples of the president, from that same era, of when this birthday book was compiled, signing his name in a similar style. Like, this 1996 letter, to then-New York City Mayor, Rudy Giuliani. Or this 1995 letter to a member of a local Palm Beach commission.
There’s also that 1999 letter to the legendary CNN host, Larry King, that you see here, and a 1984 letter to the Executive Editor of The New York Times. There’s even an inscription in a Trump book that Epstein owned from 1997, that The New York Times recently published.
Those are the signatures there. And of course, this is the one the White House is denying, is the President’s, tonight.
Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.
