cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35643866
From Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/house-democrats-release-alleged-trump-birthday-letter-epstein-2025-09-08/
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released the letter after Congress received the 2003 "birthday book" from Epstein's lawyers, the Journal reported on Monday. The letter is dated three years before allegations of sex abuse by Epstein became public in 2006.
The letter contains text of a purported dialogue between Trump and Epstein in which Trump calls him a "pal" and says, "May every day be another wonderful secret." The text sits within a crude sketch of the silhouette of a naked woman.
White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich denounced the release, saying the signature on the letter is not Trump's and alluding to Trump's lawsuit against the Journal's parent company, News Corp.
Nope. People with narcissistic personality disorder are simply unable to play dumb. Trump believes every word that comes out of his mouth. From the outside, that seems fucking nuts so we come up with explanations from our own experience. "If I did that, what would I have been thinking?"
Mom had NPD, and while she's the worst case I've known IRL, still, nothing like Trump. Unless you've spent a great deal of time around someone who most literally cannot believe they are wrong, or ever have been wrong, it's all but impossible to get your head around it.