meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence shares a note Trump sent him comparing its signature to the Epstein birthday note signature

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

Policy, Ms Now, Versant Media, Versant, Msnbc, Politics, President, Washington, Congress, Government, Senate, News

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: House Democrats release Donald Trump’s alleged birthday card for Jeffrey Epstein. Rep. Robert Garcia, Rep. Ro Khanna, Andrew Weissmann, and Lisa Rubin join Lawrence O’Donnell.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Well, as of this hour, Donald Trump remains silent. Donald Trump is silent about the worst thing

0:10.7

that happened to him today. The House Oversight Committee, following a lead that Carson

0:16.9

Rokana, who will join us tonight, picked up from a guest on this program,

0:21.0

attorney Bradley Edwards, obtained through a subpoena to the Epstein estate, the 50th birthday

0:27.5

book of sex trafficker and child rapist and friend of Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein.

0:34.1

When the Wall Street Journal first reported the existence of the birthday book on July 17th,

0:39.8

Donald Trump sued the Wall Street Journal and included in the official pleadings of his lawsuit,

0:46.8

what we tonight know were lies. Donald Trump said that the birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein

0:53.4

bearing his signature did not exist.

0:57.0

His lawsuit called it, quote, the non-existent letter.

1:01.8

Lawyers are not supposed to put lies in writing and legal pleadings, and good lawyers never do.

1:08.4

By now, the world knows that the letter that Donald Trump, in effect, swore under oath in his lawsuit, does not exist.

1:17.3

Not only exists, but it's now been seen around the world, and it appears exactly the way the

1:24.4

Wall Street Journal first described in the very first news report about the letter,

1:29.6

which did not include at the time in the journal actually showing a copy of the letter.

1:34.7

Here is the letter, which the Wall Street Journal described this way, in its first report on July 17th,

1:42.6

quote, the letter bearing Trump's name, which was reviewed

1:46.0

by the journal, is bawdy, like others in the album. It contains several lines of typewritten text

1:51.8

framed by the outline of a naked woman which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker.

1:57.8

A pair of small arcs denotes the woman's breasts, and the future president's

2:03.9

signature is a squiggly Donald below her waist mimicking pubic hair. Inside the outline of the naked

2:12.3

woman was a typewritten note styled as an imaginary conversation between Trump and Epstein written in the third

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.