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ON, RACHEL, I'M GOING THROUGH YOUR TRASH. THANK YOU. THROUGH YOUR TRASH. THANK YOU. LAWRENCE. THANKS, RACHEL. LAWRENCE. THANKS, RACHEL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
WELL, AS OF THIS HOUR, DONALD TRUMP REMAINS SILENT. DONALD TRUMP REMAINS SILENT. DONALD TRUMP IS SILENT ABOUT THE WORST THING THAT HAPPENED TO HIM TODAY. THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE, FOLLOWING A LEAD THAT CONGRESSMAN RO KHANNA, WHO WILL JOIN US TONIGHT, PICKED UP FROM A GUEST ON THIS PROGRAM, ATTORNEY BRADLEY EDWARDS, OBTAINED THROUGH A SUBPOENA TO THE EPSTEIN ESTATE THE 50TH BIRTHDAY BOOK OF SEX TRAFFICKER AND CHILD RAPIST AND FRIEND OF DONALD TRUMP, JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
WHEN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL FIRST REPORTED THE EXISTENCE OF THE BIRTHDAY BOOK ON JULY 17TH, DONALD TRUMP SUED THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND INCLUDED IN THE OFFICIAL PLEADINGS OF HIS LAWSUIT WHAT WE TONIGHT KNOW WERE LIES. DONALD TRUMP SAID THAT THE BIRTHDAY LETTER TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN, BEARING HIS SIGNATURE DID NOT EXIST. HIS LAWSUIT CALLED IT, QUOTE, THE NONEXISTENT LETTER. LAWYERS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO PUT LIES IN WRITING, IN LEGAL PLEADINGS, AND GOOD LAWYERS NEVER DO.
BY NOW, THE WORLD KNOWS THAT THE LETTER THAT DONALD TRUMP, IN EFFECT, SWORE UNDER OATH IN HIS LAWSUIT DOES NOT EXIST, NOT ONLY EXISTS, BUT IT'S NOW BEEN SEEN AROUND THE WORLD, AND IT APPEARS EXACTLY THE WAY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL FIRST DESCRIBED IN THE VERY FIRST NEWS REPORT ABOUT THE LETTER, WHICH DID NOT INCLUDE AT THE TIME IN THE JOURNAL ACTUALLY SHOWING A COPY OF THE LETTER.
HERE IS THE LETTER, WHICH THE WALL STREET JOURNAL DESCRIBED THIS WAY IN ITS FIRST REPORT ON JULY 17TH. QUOTE. THE LETTER BEARING TRUMP'S NAME, WHICH WAS REVIEWED BY THE JOURNAL, IS BODY. LIKE OTHERS IN THE ALBUM, IT CONTAINS SEVERAL LINES OF TYPEWRITTEN TEXT FRAMED BY THE OUTLINE OF A NAKED WOMAN, WHICH APPEARS TO BE HAND-DRAWN WITH A HEAVY MARKER. A PAIR OF SMALL ARCS DENOTES THE WOMAN'S BREASTS, AND THE FUTURE PRESIDENT'S SIGNATURE IS A SQUIGGLY DONALD BELOW HER WAIST, MIMICKING PUBIC HAIR. INSIDE THE OUTLINE OF THE NAKED WOMAN WAS A TYPEWRITTEN NOTE, STYLED AS AN IMAGINARY CONVERSATION BETWEEN TRUMP AND EPSTEIN. EPSTEIN, WRITTEN IN THE THIRD PERSON. DONALD, WE HAVE CERTAIN THINGS IN COMMON. JEFFREY. JEFFREY. YES WE DO. COME TO THINK OF IT, DONALD. ENIGMAS NEVER AGE. HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT, JEFFREY? AS A MATTER OF FACT, IT WAS CLEAR TO ME THE LAST TIME I SAW YOU. DONALD, A PAL IS A WONDERFUL THING. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. AND MAY EVERY DAY BE ANOTHER WONDERFUL SECRET. THE DONALD SIGNED LETTER TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN IS NO LONGER A WONDERFUL SECRET.
THE SIGNATURE ON THE BIRTHDAY NOTE DOES LOOK LIKE DONALD TRUMP'S SIGNATURE. DONALD TRUMP HAS NOT YET DENIED THAT IT IS HIS SIGNATURE, BUT IT BECAME THE OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE POSITION TODAY THAT THAT IS NOT DONALD TRUMP'S SIGNATURE.
THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES USED PROFANITY BACK IN JULY WHEN ATTACKING THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND DEMANDING ON SOCIAL MEDIA AT THE TIME AN ANSWER TO THE URGENT QUESTION WHERE IS THE LETTER TODAY? WHEN THE LETTER WAS PRODUCED, THE VICE PRESIDENT'S RESPONSE IN WRITING WAS NO ONE IS FALLING FOR THIS BS. WELL, OKAY, MR. VICE PRESIDENT, BUT YOU COULD HAVE AT LEAST ACKNOWLEDGED THAT YOU'RE EAGER. QUESTION WHERE IS THE LETTER HAS BEEN ANSWERED? NO.
TRUMP WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY HAS EVER GOTTEN THROUGH A DAY WITHOUT LYING. AND TODAY THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY'S JOB WAS TO SAY THAT THE RELEASE OF THE LETTER PROVES THIS ENTIRE BIRTHDAY CARD STORY IS FALSE. IT'S VERY CLEAR PRESIDENT TRUMP DID NOT DRAW THIS PICTURE AND HE DID NOT SIGN IT.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND ITS REPORT TODAY INCLUDED AN ANALYSIS OF THE PUBLIC EVIDENCE OF DONALD TRUMP'S ARTISTIC DRAWING STYLE OVER THE YEARS, AS WELL AS HIS FREQUENT CHOICE OF LANGUAGE, WHICH INCLUDES SOME OF THE LANGUAGE IN THE BIRTHDAY NOTE, INCLUDING THE WORD ENIGMA, WHICH DONALD TRUMP HAS PROVEN IN THE PAST THAT HE DOES ACTUALLY KNOW. AND THE WALL STREET JOURNAL PRODUCED SIGNATURES ON OTHER TRUMP NOTES THAT DO LOOK LIKE THE SIGNATURE IN THE BIRTHDAY BOOK LETTER.
AT THE SAME TIME, A DEPUTY WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF WAS GIVEN THE JOB OF POSTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA A FEW EXAMPLES OF DONALD TRUMP'S SIGNATURE THAT ACTUALLY DO LOOK LIKE THE SIGNATURE IN THE BIRTHDAY BOOK. BUT THE WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL MEDIA POST SAYS IT IS NOT HIS SIGNATURE. SO THE STRATEGY THERE IS TO SHOW TRUMP SUPPORTERS SIGNATURES THAT LOOK LIKE DONALD TRUMP'S SIGNATURE, BUT INSIST THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE DONALD TRUMP'S SIGNATURE. SO THE TRUMP SUPPORTERS WILL THINK THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE DONALD TRUMP'S SIGNATURE.
THE WHITE HOUSE HAS GOOD REASON TO BELIEVE THAT A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF TRUMP'S SUPPORTERS WILL REFUSE TO BELIEVE THEIR EYES. IF DONALD TRUMP OR SOMEONE WORKING FOR DONALD TRUMP TELLS THEM TO REFUSE TO BELIEVE THEIR EYES.
AND AS I TOLD RACHEL, I HAVE MY OWN ENTRY TO OFFER IN THE TRUMP HANDWRITING SAMPLES. IN THE SECOND WEEK OF JANUARY IN 2016, I GOT MY ONE AND ONLY NOTE FROM DONALD TRUMP. IT WAS A HANDWRITTEN NOTE AND HE SIGNED IT. BEST WISHES, DONALD. JUST THE FIRST NAME. JUST LIKE THE BIRTHDAY LETTER, IT WAS A VERY FRIENDLY NOTE THAT I RECEIVED FROM DONALD, DONALD, DONALD, AS HE PUT IT, DONALD TRUMP. AND IT WAS ALMOST GENEROUS AND I SAY ALMOST GENEROUS BECAUSE IT INCLUDED A CONTRIBUTION TO MY FAVORITE CHARITY. BUT THE CHECK DONALD TRUMP SENT ME WAS FROM THE DONALD J. TRUMP FOUNDATION, WHICH WE NOW KNOW WAS OPERATING SO FRAUDULENTLY THAT IT IS NO LONGER ALLOWED TO OPERATE IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND HAS BEEN DISBANDED, THE DONALD J. TRUMP FOUNDATION.
ACCORDING TO AN INVESTIGATION BY ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES, WAS FILLED WITH MONEY THAT DID NOT COME FROM DONALD TRUMP. AND SO IF DONALD TRUMP MADE A RARE CONTRIBUTION FROM THE DONALD J. TRUMP FOUNDATION, IT USUALLY WASN'T HIS MONEY. THE TRUMP CHECK THAT HE SENT WAS FOR $10,000. IT WAS FROM THE DONALD J. TRUMP FOUNDATION.
AND ON THE SHOW THAT NIGHT, I TOLD THE STORY OF RECEIVING THE CHECK FROM A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AND HOW SURPRISED I WAS THAT IT CAME FROM SOMEONE WHO, UP TO THAT MOMENT, HAD BEEN PUBLICLY ATTACKING ME FOR FIVE YEARS, FIRST FOR CALLING HIM A LIAR IN 2011 WHEN HE OPENED HIS MOUTH ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE, AND MANY TIMES AFTER THAT, BY THE TIME DONALD TRUMP'S FRIENDLY NOTE ARRIVED WITH THAT CHECK, HE'D ALREADY CALLED ME IN VARIOUS TWEETS. ONE OF THE DUMBER PEOPLE ON TELEVISION DOPEY, A FOOL, AND MANY MORE SUCH THINGS.
AND BACK WHEN I WAS ACCURATELY PREDICTING THE EXACT DAY WHEN DONALD TRUMP WOULD ANNOUNCE THAT HE WAS NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT AGAINST PRESIDENT OBAMA IN 2012, DONALD TRUMP TWEETED, LAWRENCE WILL SOON BE OFF TV. BAD RATINGS. HE HAS A FACE MADE FOR RADIO. DONALD TRUMP WAS ACTUALLY PRIVATELY URGING NBC TO GET RID OF ME IN THOSE DAYS. AND SO THE FRIENDLY NOTE CAME AS A SURPRISE IN JANUARY 2016 FROM SOMEONE WHO I DIDN'T KNOW AND WHO I BELIEVED HATED ME.
AND ON THE SHOW THAT NIGHT, I READ MY RESPONSE TO DONALD TRUMP ABOUT RECEIVING THAT NOTE, AND I JUST SAID THAT I SAID IN A LETTER TO DONALD TRUMP THAT I WROTE IN THE SHOW THAT I COULDN'T ACCEPT, OF COURSE, ANY KIND OF CONTRIBUTION OR PASS ON ANY KIND OF CONTRIBUTION FROM A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. IT'S GIVEN THAT I REPORT ON PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES. I ASKED HIM, I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND THIS PREDICAMENT.
AND THEN, OF COURSE, I IN THE END SAID, IN THE MEANTIME, BECAUSE OF BECAUSE I WAS DIVERTING THIS CONTRIBUTION, I MYSELF WOULD REPLACE THE TRUMP CHECK WITH A $10,000 CHECK OF MY OWN THAT I THEN GAVE TO MY FAVORITE CHARITY. AND SO HERE IS TONIGHT'S ENTRY IN THE TRUMP SIGNATURE SWEEPSTAKES.
THIS IS A COPY OF WHAT I SENT WHEN HE SENT ME THIS. THIS IS A MADE A COPY, BUT I SENT THIS, PUT IT BACK IN THE ENVELOPE. IT CAME IN AND SENT IT BACK TO DONALD TRUMP. DONALD TRUMP'S NOTE TO ME APPEARS IN THE MEMO SECTION OF THE CHECK. AND THERE IS THE SIGNATURE TO THE NOTE, WHICH IS JUST THAT WORD DONALD. JUST DONALD, THAT VERY FRIENDLY SIGNATURE. AND THEN THE FULL FORMAL SIGNATURE, DONALD J. TRUMP BELOW THAT ON THE CHECK.
AND SO NOW FROM THIS, THIS DONALD RIGHT HERE, I'M GOING TO LIFT THIS DONALD RIGHT HERE, THE ONE WORD SIGNATURE AND PUT IT ON THE SCREEN. IT'S GOING TO APPEAR ON THE SCREEN BELOW. BELOW THE SIGNATURE THAT APPEARS ON THE EPSTEIN BIRTHDAY LETTER. NOW OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE DIFFERENT MAGNIFICATIONS OF THOSE SIGNATURES AND DIFFERENT THICKNESS, POSSIBLY DUE TO THE WRITING IMPLEMENT AT THE TIME. BUT YOU'LL SEE ALL THE BASIC SHAPES ARE EXACTLY THE SAME. ALL OF THE GRAND STROKES ARE EXACTLY THE SAME. THOSE TWO SIGNATURES ARE MORE ALIKE THAN ANY TWO EXEMPLARS OF MY SIGNATURE, WHICH VARIES DAY TO DAY AND SIGNATURE TO SIGNATURE. BUT WE WILL LEAVE IT TO YOU, THE HANDWRITING EXPERTS IN THE AUDIENCE, TO MAKE TONIGHT'S JUDGMENT ABOUT JUST HOW SIMILAR THOSE STRIKINGLY