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On July 17, the Wall Street Journal published an exposé by Khadeeja Safdar and Sadie Gurman, detailing a racy — and, in context, rather damning — 2003 birthday message from real estate developer Donald Trump to financier Jeffrey Epstein, who later allegedly killed himself while awaiting trial on charges of sexually trafficking minor girls.

Trump followed his usual crybully playbook: Deny everything, scream “fake news!,” issue clearly false statements (“I never wrote a picture in my life”) to make the story sound implausible, sue for some ridiculous amount of money ($10 billion).

While I tend to distrust “scandal” stories in “mainstream media” outlets, those very........

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