One of the things with all of this news and all the things we've been covering about Donald Trump for the last decade plus that I would note is that he is supposed to be good at lying.

That is supposed to be a thing he is good at.

I mean, the conventional wisdom in Maga land, at least, is that if Trump doesn't like something, whether it's a news story or a statistic or an immutable law of physics.

You can just say it's fake over and over and over again.

And eventually the theory is it will go away.

Now, I would not have necessarily predicted that the Epstein files.

I didn't predict at all.

I wouldn't have thought this at all.

That the Epstein files would be the issue that caught him up in his own blatant lies to a point where it seems to be one of his biggest problems. But eight months into his second term, he is having a very hard time explaining himself. I mean, yesterday we finally got the highly anticipated Epstein birthday book. I was just talking about it with Chris, the one that was first reported on by the Wall Street Journal back in July, that was said to include at the time a body letter from Trump to Epstein, which we didn't see at the time.

And Trump was so furious, remember that a couple months ago, about that reporting that he immediately sued the Wall Street Journal and its parent company for defamation,

declaring an open court that that birthday letter did not exist.

Well, turns out, as we all, basically all of you watching would have predicted, we knew

that would be the case all along, the letter definitely does exist, as to a whole bunch of other

creepy letters to Epstein that were compiled in that birthday book. Now, I should warn you, many of the 200-plus pages, which were contributed by Epstein's friends,

allude to his lifestyle with lewd references and suggestive images and incredibly crude and disgusting jokes.

I mean, for example, one contributor expresses birthday greetings to Degenerate 1, saying, so many girls, so little time.

Another contributor wrote a poem, noting that despite being an outrage to public decency, Epstein had avoided the penitentiary.

One page seems to reference his lifestyle through clip art, clip art, depicting his plane and women in swimming

where you can see that on the screen, a little bizarre birthday note there.

Then there is this particularly creepy illustration on the screen right now, appearing to show

Epstein giving candy and balloons to female children in 1983 and then receiving massages and other things, apparently

from those same girls, 20 years later.

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