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Leaked letter is here "exactly as described...WSJ..." (Original Post) littlemissmartypants Jul 2025 OP
Sure he did. Why on earth would the WSJ "leak" what it has instead of just sharing it itself? Come on. WhiskeyGrinder Jul 2025 #1
They did report on it. Three days ago. Here's link. Not a "LEAK". They did just report on it. Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2025 #4
I think he or she is talking about an image of the drawing senseandsensibility Jul 2025 #5
Exactly. We are not sure because they complained about leaking a story, which did not occur. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2025 #6
I think he or she is implying that the WSJ leaked the image to this senseandsensibility Jul 2025 #10
Right, I'm talking about the image itself. Edited my other post for clarity. WhiskeyGrinder Jul 2025 #8
lol bucolic_frolic Jul 2025 #2
republicon "values" are total pervo crap BoRaGard Jul 2025 #3
I've seen this pic floated - but some are saying the source is questionable - this dude Dean Blundell - is more of a tulipsandroses Jul 2025 #7
At this point, anything to smear President Psychopath is fair game. littlemissmartypants Jul 2025 #11
You mean like "born in Kenya"? rubbersole Jul 2025 #24
So? Is it fake? paleotn Jul 2025 #14
weird letter that has a typed conversation? is this the font issue idea borrowed from Rove? Shellback Squid Jul 2025 #9
Question... littlemissmartypants Jul 2025 #12
Bingo! paleotn Jul 2025 #15
Look, we all know the letter exists. But sharing fake shit is a good way to degrade the entire information ecosystem -- WhiskeyGrinder Jul 2025 #17
So... littlemissmartypants Jul 2025 #18
If you run around telling people you tarred and feathered someone, and it's clear you haven't, people tend to stop WhiskeyGrinder Jul 2025 #19
... littlemissmartypants Jul 2025 #21
I saw this version on Facebook; it isn't the same. At least one, maybe both, must be fake. Ocelot II Jul 2025 #29
I'm sure they're both fake WhiskeyGrinder Jul 2025 #33
This is ForgedCrank Jul 2025 #31
Don't get me wrong, I think it's important to talk about the terrible things he does. We know he's done terrible things. WhiskeyGrinder Jul 2025 #32
Absolutely. ForgedCrank Jul 2025 #34
Gossip TnDem Jul 2025 #36
Hear! Hear! pat_k Jul 2025 #48
Who else draws with a magic marker ?? kentuck Jul 2025 #13
Simple. Someone else created the smooth artwork and $20 "enigmatic" words. usonian Jul 2025 #16
Interestingly TommyT139 Jul 2025 #20
Enigma is an anagram for gamine. A gamine is a playful young girl. Swede Jul 2025 #23
Gamine in french is not playful young girl. drray23 Jul 2025 #30
I am surprised by his uuge vocabulary! usonian Jul 2025 #25
is that an Enigma machine or a Gamine machine? DBoon Jul 2025 #46
a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma usonian Jul 2025 #47
Fidelio C_U_L8R Jul 2025 #28
I'm sorry. I seem to have forgotten that. taxi Jul 2025 #43
Dont think this real SSJVegeta Jul 2025 #22
Not an image of the letter Prairie Gates Jul 2025 #26
Exactly. littlemissmartypants Jul 2025 #35
Wake up TnDem Jul 2025 #37
Hahaha. littlemissmartypants Jul 2025 #39
Very classy, Sir. rubbersole Jul 2025 #27
I saw what you did there TnDem Jul 2025 #38
A noble piece at that! rubbersole Jul 2025 #41
I'll Forever Associate Tr**p's Signature With ..... global1 Jul 2025 #40
One thing about it that is noteworthy to me... BWdem4life Jul 2025 #42
The WSJ described a letter signed by Trump. taxi Jul 2025 #44
Grab them by the puxxy, and then sign it. Norrrm Jul 2025 #45

WhiskeyGrinder

(26,348 posts)
1. Sure he did. Why on earth would the WSJ "leak" what it has instead of just sharing it itself? Come on.
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 04:16 PM
Jul 2025

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
6. Exactly. We are not sure because they complained about leaking a story, which did not occur. . . . . nt
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 04:30 PM
Jul 2025

senseandsensibility

(24,254 posts)
10. I think he or she is implying that the WSJ leaked the image to this
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 04:38 PM
Jul 2025

Canadian journalist instead of just releasing it themselves, which I agree would be strange if true.

tulipsandroses

(8,131 posts)
7. I've seen this pic floated - but some are saying the source is questionable - this dude Dean Blundell - is more of a
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 04:34 PM
Jul 2025

shock jock than a journalist.

littlemissmartypants

(31,673 posts)
11. At this point, anything to smear President Psychopath is fair game.
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 04:41 PM
Jul 2025

Like he and his supporters have never pulled sh¡t out of thin air...

littlemissmartypants

(31,673 posts)
12. Question...
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 04:45 PM
Jul 2025

Did the angry colonists question the origins of the tar and feathers when the time came to use them?

WhiskeyGrinder

(26,348 posts)
17. Look, we all know the letter exists. But sharing fake shit is a good way to degrade the entire information ecosystem --
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 04:55 PM
Jul 2025

this has been widely studied. Sharing fake images makes it less likely people take it seriously when the real image eventually comes out, which it is bound to. Sharing something fake adds nothing.

littlemissmartypants

(31,673 posts)
18. So...
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 05:01 PM
Jul 2025

Should feathers not be used at all or does one kill the bird on site to make sure everyone knows when they stick to the tar they're legit?

WhiskeyGrinder

(26,348 posts)
19. If you run around telling people you tarred and feathered someone, and it's clear you haven't, people tend to stop
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 05:05 PM
Jul 2025

listening to you.

Ocelot II

(129,111 posts)
29. I saw this version on Facebook; it isn't the same. At least one, maybe both, must be fake.
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 05:29 PM
Jul 2025
.

ForgedCrank

(3,029 posts)
31. This is
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 05:44 PM
Jul 2025

what I've been whining about for so long. We must stop with the gossip and tabloid bullcrap. If it's anti-Trump, regardless of the source or who releases it, we all get lumped into it being on the left. It's making us look stupid and completely lacking credibility.
We have to get off of this trend of attacking his character and policy with fake or misleading crap and start focusing on our own policy ideas. We already have the votes of most Democrats, it's the centrists that we need to earn back that will turn this thing around. If we stay on this -hate all things Trump- campaign, that is never going to happen. Sitting around praying for his death isn't the way; in fact, that crap is what is driving people away from us.

WhiskeyGrinder

(26,348 posts)
32. Don't get me wrong, I think it's important to talk about the terrible things he does. We know he's done terrible things.
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 05:48 PM
Jul 2025

It's the fake shit that drives me up the wall.

ForgedCrank

(3,029 posts)
34. Absolutely.
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 06:25 PM
Jul 2025

His shortcomings and all should certainly be pointed out and highlighted. But you are correct about the fake shit. That is what has eroded the credibility of not just the media and personalities who do it, but it has damaged us badly as a party overall. Everything from this stupid ass picture to ketchup packets. Even calling him a "convicted rapist" or Hitler. This crap needs to be reeled in asap. Mid-terms are coming up fast and it's time to start getting serious and knock it off with the kindergarten crap. I just wish more people could get over their hatred and see what this is doing to us. We are better than them and we need to start behaving like it.

 

TnDem

(1,390 posts)
36. Gossip
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 06:47 PM
Jul 2025
...if it's anti-Trump, regardless of the source or who releases it, we all get lumped into it being on the left. It's making us look stupid and completely lacking credibility.


That's because some people just eat this shit up because they are completely emotional and not factual or thoughtful.

How many posts are just eye rolls to most people...Shit like TikTok seance predictions and female drawings with trumps name in the center on letterhead.

How stupid...That's really going to win votes. People don't seem to get it. Trump doesn't care. He is not running for re-election.

pat_k

(12,665 posts)
48. Hear! Hear!
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 04:05 PM
Jul 2025

Buyer beware.

Just in the past two days sources -- including Reed Galen -- have read or quoted horrible fake tweets attributed to some MAGA person. What they actually post is horrible enough. We need to be VERY sceptical and unless legitimacy is clear, DO NOT promote. Even the original post on mastadon this image was taken from states that it is unverified.

usonian

(23,581 posts)
16. Simple. Someone else created the smooth artwork and $20 "enigmatic" words.
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 04:52 PM
Jul 2025

So he can deny.

For example Mark Hall,

or is that Hall ...



It was obviously a porno pen.

TommyT139

(2,150 posts)
20. Interestingly
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 05:07 PM
Jul 2025

...on MSNBC, one of the evening anchors did a segment on the times Trump has used "enigma" over the years. He probably thinks it's a word that makes him sound smart.

Swede

(38,365 posts)
23. Enigma is an anagram for gamine. A gamine is a playful young girl.
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 05:18 PM
Jul 2025

Someone theorized that Epstein suggested the anagram as secret code between the two buddies, cause Trump is too stupid to think of it.

drray23

(8,589 posts)
30. Gamine in french is not playful young girl.
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 05:42 PM
Jul 2025

Its simply a word for a young girl.

No implications of playfulness or lewdness.
Likewise, gamin is the word for young boy.

usonian

(23,581 posts)
25. I am surprised by his uuge vocabulary!
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 05:22 PM
Jul 2025

Thanks. I don't read his material.

And I couldn't de-cipher it anyway.

usonian

(23,581 posts)
47. a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 03:43 PM
Jul 2025

There it is. The Riddler wrapped in Mister E. (Epstein) inside an enigma machine.

Poor Frank Gorshin.


Prairie Gates

(7,209 posts)
26. Not an image of the letter
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 05:24 PM
Jul 2025

The Trumpies are desperate to have the WSJ release an image of the letter, which the WSJ seems unwilling to do. This is an attempt to get them to release it by circulating a fake.

littlemissmartypants

(31,673 posts)
35. Exactly.
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 06:38 PM
Jul 2025

With no comparisons to the "original," it gives him plausible deniability.

It's high time he suffered some of the same manufactured crap he and his kind have slung around for years.

Those who are left that are able to actually think can decide for themselves what to believe or not to believe.

Prove that there's a fake, President Psychopath.

Show us the real thing.

Why not show us what you're willing to attest to as real, President Psychopath? Why not add your witnesses, who no doubt saw the birthday book, then have them swear that it's real, too?

Pay them to lie.

Who cares?

Eventually, he's going to crack once and for all.

He's only a man.

We've already seen glimpses of his accidental truthfulness.

He needs something or someone who is willing to apply enough pressure on him to show him that with the thousands of lies he's told, one lie can cause him to finally fatally collapse.

It doesn't matter if what does him in is manufactured or real. I just want him and everything he represents, destroyed.

It may actually kill him to have to tell the truth. The only way we'll know he's truthful is when he's declared dead anyway.






 

TnDem

(1,390 posts)
37. Wake up
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 06:51 PM
Jul 2025

Trump doesn't care

He admitted to grabbing women "by the pussy", was impeached twice, shot, investigated and scorned by the world. He still was elected twice.

Shit like this is not going to hurt trump. All of this was baked in 6 years ago.

global1

(26,409 posts)
40. I'll Forever Associate Tr**p's Signature With .....
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 07:00 PM
Jul 2025

pubic hair.

So now we can say that all of Tr**p's Executive Orders are signed with pubic hair.

BWdem4life

(2,927 posts)
42. One thing about it that is noteworthy to me...
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 12:55 AM
Jul 2025

Is that the lines of the woman go between words, so as not to obscure what is being written. Whether it's real or fake, that shows great care and attention to detail - something that must have taken someone some time to do.

I'm actually leaning towards real.

taxi

(2,676 posts)
44. The WSJ described a letter signed by Trump.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 01:34 AM
Jul 2025

Trump says he didn't write the letter or the drawing.
It is of little difference what Trump wrote or drew, he attached his name to it making the letter his own. He did the same thing with his book. People everywhere sign their names to documents they haven't personally written but are recognized as their own.
He is basically saying, I am Donald Trump and I approve this message.

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