The right-wing media ecosystem has been clamoring for information on Jeffrey Epstein for years. It was briefly up in arms when Donald Trump ’s Justice Department announced in July that it would not be releasing more material on the case, before largely tabling the issue and rallying behind the president — even as it was revealed that his name appears in the so-called Epstein files multiple times.
The Wall Street Journal — which in July reported on a salacious birthday letter Trump gave Epstein in the early 2000s — revealed on Monday that Congress had obtained the letter from Epstein’s estate, and published a copy of it. It’s an interesting development considering Trump and his supporters vociferously denied the letter’s existence earlier this summer, with Trump even suing th