The US Congress has made public an erotic drawing this Thursday. A small and cryptic audiovisual script, or something similar, written inside the silhouette of a female nude body, with explicit references to the chest and pubic hair. In itself, the news is atypical. If you consider that the author is the President of the United States, it reaches unimaginable levels. But if the story is completed with the fact that the recipient, in 2003, was the pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, and that Donald Trump denied and vehemently denies the existence of that drawing - and even sued The Wall Street Journal for $10 billion, the newspaper that revealed it - it reaches a climax.
Epstein's estate lawyers, who committed suicide in prison in 2019 after being arrested, have handed a copy of the birthday book compiled by his right-hand woman, the now convicted for providing him with underage girls for his sexual parties, Ghislaine Maxwell, to Congress. The gift includes affectionate messages from important personalities, such as former President Bill Clinton. And also a letter signed (his signature serves as pubic hair) by Trump, with a drawing in his own handwriting, whose existence he denies.
He denies it to such an extent that he has taken The Wall Street Journal, its director, and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, to court, stating that the claim was "false," a "setup," and something ridiculous," and that he is not in the habit of making caricatures or drawings, despite there being numerous documented examples to the contrary, as he used them for years to assist in charitable campaigns, for example.
In July, the Wall Street Journal reported on the book and the letter with Trump's name, advancing that it contained typed text framed by the silhouette of a naked woman. The letter concluded: "Happy birthday, and may each day be another wonderful secret." The text inside the female silhouette contains other striking phrases, such as "we have something in common," "riddles never grow old," and mentions of the last time they saw each other. Something that now haunts the president, who has been furious for months about the attention the case is receiving and demands that his supporters, the Republican Party, and the media forget about the case and about someone "who has been dead for six years."
But neither side is letting go. The Democrats have seen an opportunity, almost the first one, to cause harm. And there are Republican congressmen like Thomas Massie or Marjorie Taylor Green (a prominent member of the MAGA) who are rebelling and demanding to know all the documents about the case, something the Administration does not want. It has declassified thousands of papers, but most are already known or not very relevant, after fueling conspiracy theories for years about friends, clients, and those allegedly blackmailed by Epstein and his network.
Trump and Epstein were friends in the 90s. There is no evidence, proof, or claim that Trump was aware of the crimes, participated in any, or was blackmailed by his former friend. They ended their relationship in the early years of this century, before Epstein was arrested and convicted for the first time. But it is evident that they were friends, although now he seeks to downplay or deny it while claiming that it was the Democrats or the Clintons who were involved with him.
Both traveled together on private planes, went to parties, treated each other closely, and the financier visited the current president's Mar-a-Lago complex in Florida several times. And the message in the gift book shows complicity, as it is written as if it were a movie script, with a voiceover included.
There are many mentions in the press at the time of their friendship, including very controversial statements by Trump about shared interests in beautiful and young women. Not only that. The prosecutor who reached an agreement with Epstein the first time he was arrested was a minister in Trump's first government.
The current Attorney General of the country, the Minister of Justice, was the Florida prosecutor when the financier committed many of the crimes, but did not open a case, and it had to be a colleague from New York who did so.