DJT's defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal is, at best a SLAPP suit. DJT has not yet withdrawn the SLAPP suit. Read docket here: https://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2025/07/annals-of-trumpistan-read-docket-in.html From The New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Epstein Estate Turns Over Birthday Drawing Apparently Signed by Trump
Where Things Stand
Epstein book: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released an image of the sexually suggestive note and drawing apparently bearing the signature of Donald J. Trump, taken from a 2003 book celebrating the 50th birthday of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Mr. Trump has insisted he never wrote such a note. Lawyers for Mr. Epstein’s estate provided a copy of the book to the committee in response to a subpoena. Read more ›
Immigration stops: The Supreme Court at least temporarily lifted restrictions on a immigration-related stops by government agents in the Los Angeles area that challengers called “blatant racial profiling.” The decision lifts a federal judge’s order that agents not make indiscriminate stops relying on factors like a person’s ethnicity or that they speak Spanish. But the ruling is not the last word in the case. Read more ›
Chicago: Mr. Trump’s promised immigration crackdown in Chicago has begun, the administration said, though local officials said they hadn’t seen many arrests. The Department of Homeland Security said the effort was targeting undocumented immigrants with criminal records. At least three people were arrested there on Sunday by federal agents, an advocacy group said.
Reporting from the Capitol
A key congressional committee on Monday obtained a note and sexually suggestive drawing apparently signed by President Trump and included in a book for the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003 — a drawing that Mr. Trump has insisted is fake.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee said they had viewed the drawing — a figure of a naked woman with “Donald” written below her waist — and posted a photo of it on their official social media account. The drawing, in thick black ink, outlines text that quotes an imagined conversation between Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein, with what appears to be Mr. Trump’s distinctive signature below the woman’s waist.
“The Oversight Committee has secured the infamous ‘Birthday Book’ that contains a note from President Trump that he has said does not exist,” Representative Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the committee, said in a statement. “It’s time for the president to tell us the truth about what he knew and release all the Epstein files.”
Lawyers for Mr. Epstein’s estate provided a copy of the book, among other materials, in response to a subpoena that the Oversight Committee’s Republican chairman, Representative James R. Comer of Kentucky, issued last month, according to an aide.
Details of the drawing and poem were reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal in July. The president has vehemently denied writing the letter or drawing the figure, and has sued the Journal for defamation.
At the time, Mr. Trump wrote on social media, “The supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE.”
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