Per the Journal’s report:
Earlier this week, after the Journal sought comment from the president about the letter, Trump told reporters at the White House that he believed some Epstein files were “made up” by former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden and former FBI Director James Comey.
That sort of echoes what Trump told Fox News a year ago when he seemed to back off the idea of releasing all of the Epstein files, citing “phony stuff” that could “affect people’s lives”:
Campos-Duffy: Would you declassify the Epstein files?
Trump: Yeah, yeah, I would.
Campos-Duffy: All right.
Trump: I guess I would. I think that less so because, you don’t know, you don’t want to affect people’s lives if it’s phony stuff in there, because it’s a lot of phony stuff with that whole world. But I think I would, or at least—
Campos-Duffy: Do you think that would restore trust — help restore trust.
Trump: Yeah. I don’t know about Epstein so much as I do the others. Certainly about the way he died. It’d be interesting to find out what happened there, because that was a weird situation and the cameras didn’t happen to be working, etc., etc. But yeah, I’d go a long way toward that one.
This seems to suggest that Trump knew this letter existed. But now he’s implying it’s some kind of new fake, because if it did exist last year his deep-state enemies would have used it against him. Here’s what he posted last night:
If there were any truth at all on the Epstein Hoax, as it pertains to President Trump, this information would have been revealed by Comey, Brennan, Crooked Hillary, and other Radical Left Lunatics years ago. It certainly would not have sat in a file waiting for “TRUMP” to have won three Elections. This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS!
So did Barack Obama and Joe Biden insert a fake Trump letter into a real Epstein birthday album, but then Merrick Garland, James Comey, or some other (apparently principled) deep-state Trump enemy decided not to leak it because they knew it was bullshit? Or did Biden slip it in himself right before he left the White House, like a sleeper-cell birthday letter?
Also, why would a president of the United States or some spook write such a weird letter that Trump and his allies are now repeatedly pointing out doesn’t sound like him? If you wanted to take down Trump by inserting an incriminating letter into the Epstein files, you probably wouldn’t write some weird imagined dialogue about enigmas …
