Gavin Newsom Brought The Receipts After Trump Claimed He “Never Wrote A Picture” In Response To The Epstein Files, And It’s Sooo Good
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday pointed out one glaring inconsistency in President Donald Trump’s strenuous denial of a Wall Street Journal report that alleged he once sent a lewd birthday note to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, his onetime close friend.
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Trump has railed against the Journal’s reporting, claiming he had nothing to do with the reported 2003 letter (which featured a drawing of a naked woman) and insisting it was “a fake thing.”
“I never wrote a picture in my life,” Trump declared.
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Newsom responded by sharing a screenshot of a 2019 Washington Post article about a sketch that Trump had once made of the Manhattan skyline — complete with his signature — that was up for auction.
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Flipping Trump’s own words back on him, Newsom captioned the post: “I never wrote a picture in my life.”
In fact, the skyline picture is just one of several that Trump has drawn over the years, mainly to raise money for charity.
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Trump, amid growing backlash from some in his MAGA base over his administration’s stonewalling of the release of the Epstein files, has vowed to sue the Journal over the story.
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This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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