Epstein affair
Trump says he doesn’t paint pictures. His pictures show the opposite
Has Donald Trump once sent a slippery picture? No, says Trump, because he doesn’t draw. Images were auctioned by him – several times.
“I also don’t draw pictures” – with this sentence like a final line, Donald Trump tried to wipe the swimming affair off the table. The occasion of the rare announcement for US State heads was a report of the respected and conservative “Wall Street Journals” (WSJ). After that, the current US president once sent a slippery letter to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein with the drawing of a naked woman.
Donald Trump sued the newspaper for $ 10 billion
“False, malignant, defamatory” is the article, Trump hissed on his network “Truth Social” and sued the sheet and his editor Rupert Murdoch for an impressive $ 10 billion damages. What Trump’s claim supports: The “WSJ” has not yet shown the erotic drawing itself. What refutes Trump’s claim: two drawings from the past. They were even auctioned.
A picture shows the Empire State Building. Trump drawn it in 1997 to open his Mar-A-Lago in Florida. He now lives there. Julien’s auction’s sketch was auctioned on October 19, 2017. Trump was the US president for ten months. Proceeds: $ 16,000.
A few years earlier, in 2004, a non -profit organization had to provide celebrities to make drawings and sketches available for a good cause. Trump, then a famous TV host (“The Apprentice”), drew the New York skyline. Lowery Lockard had initiated the campaign at the time and told the broadcaster CNN now that she was very surprised by the picture. “That wasn’t what I would have expected.” The drawing brought in almost $ 30,000.
Signed with a golden felt pen
In addition, there is at least one third original donald: the drawing of a tree from which dollar grades fall. Trump signed it with a golden felt pen. The drawing was also sold at Julien’s auctions in 2017-for $ 8,500.
If Trump’s claim for damages actually ended up in court, the US President would do well to mitigate his apodictic statement. In fact, he has already done this to the “WSJ”, albeit in a little strange words: “I have never written a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women. This is not my language, that’s not my words.”
“Wall Street Journal” remains in his presentation
The publisher of the “WSJ” himself said that it would “vigorously defend” on the matter and has confidence in the “care and accuracy of our reporting”. The article states that Trump wrote a birthday letter to Epstein in 2003. The two were once friends. In addition to the drawing of a naked woman, Trump congratulated and wrote “Happy Birthday – and every new day may be a wonderful secret”.
Trump is under pressure because of the affair around Epstein. Also in your own warehouse. Many of his followers had recently said outraged because his government did not comply with a promise: she wanted to bring light to the scandal around the US billionaire, who was found dead in his prison cell in Manhattan in 2019. The investment banker was accused of misused numerous girls and young women. Trump’s ex-consultant Elon Musk even claimed that the US President himself was on the alleged list of customers from Epstein.
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Source: Stern
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