From New York, this is Democracy Now.

Oversight Democrats just got a hold of the Jeffrey Epstein birthday book and note that, of course,

was sent by Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein.

This note, Donald Trump has said, does not exist.

But once again, he is lying to the American public and is leading a White House cover.

The House Oversight Committee has released new documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,

including a 50th birthday book with messages from friends, including a node and sketch of a naked woman apparently signed by Donald Trump.

As the White House faces growing calls to release the Epstein files,

we'll look at a major New York Times expassee about how America's largest bank, J.P. Morgan Chase,

enabled Epstein's crimes and profited from him while ignoring major red flags.

Then to Trump's threats to wage war on Chicago,

ISIS just launched a major operation in the city days after Trump posted a message

declaring,

Chapacolapse Now, a reference to the Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now, which

contained this iconic scene.

I love the smell of night come in the morning.

In Trump's message, he wrote, I love the smell of deportations in the morning.

To talk about Trump's immigrant crackdown the militarization of U.S. cities from Chicago to Los Angeles

and the film Apocalypse Now and his reference to it will be joined by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, Viet Pan Nguyen.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report.

I'm Mimi Goodman.

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