Related Video: Trump Team DENIES Epstein Birthday Letter, Trump Calls It A 'DEAD ISSUE' (Originally posted Sept. 9, 2025)

If you have ever spent any time on a discussion board, you know that trolls are the bane of the online world. These are the people who continually interrupt your attempts to have a serious discussion with bad-faith arguments and insistence that you “prove” obvious, well-established facts. Worse, once you take the bait, they either simply refuse to accept the evidence provided or move the goal posts and try to get you to prove something else.

Discussion boards — at least, those that want to survive — have a low tolerance for these trolls and quickly ban them. If only we could do that in real life.

Troll culture has become a hallmark of President Trump and his supporters. Insisting that Trump won the 2020 election, even though there is zero actual evidence for this, is a classic example of trolling. But denying that Trump wrote the letter in Jeffrey Epstein’s “birthday book” is even more ridiculous than that. Unlike determining who won a presidential election, this isn’t a complicated exercise. The evidence for and against is clear-cut and easily accessible to everyone, and it takes about 30 seconds to explain.

The document in question came directly from Epstein’s estate in response to a congressional subpoena. Not even Trump is claiming that the book and the letter aren't more than 20 years old. So for it to be a forgery —

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