Pranksters Flood Trump Tower Gift Shop With Epstein Postcards

Pranksters had a laugh at Donald Trump's expense this week.


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With the Jeffrey Epstein story, and President Donald Trump’s connection to it, taking over news cycles this week, some pranksters decided to have some fun at the president’s expense.

According to The Daily Beast, the comedy duo known as the Good Liars, Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler, “placed Jeffrey Epstein-themed postcards in the gift shop at Trump Tower.”

The postcards feature a famous picture of Trump and Epstein taken at Mar-a-Lago in the late 1990s.

The pictures were placed on a rack in the Trump Tower gift shop, next to photos of Melania Trump.

The prank took place the same day the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had contributed to a book of “bawdy letters,” organized by Ghislaine Maxwell, on the occasion of Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003. This was during the period when Trump and Epstein were known to be friends, a few years before Epstein was first arrested for sex crimes.

“Pages from the leather-bound album—assembled before Epstein was first arrested in 2006—are among the documents examined by Justice Department officials who investigated Epstein and Maxwell years ago, according to people who have reviewed the pages,” the Journal reported.

Trump has claimed that the letter is not real, and has sued reporters  Khadeeja Safdar and Joseph Palazzolo, the Wall Street Journal, its parent company Dow Jones, and its chairman Rupert Murdoch.

“To attempt and inextricably link President Trump to Epstein, Defendants Safdar and Palazzolo falsely claim that the salacious language of the letter is contained within a hand-drawn naked woman, which was created with a heavy marker,” the suit says. “Worse, Defendants Safdar and Palazzolo falsely represent as fact that President Trump drew the naked woman’s breasts and signed his name ‘Donald’ below her waist, ‘mimicking pubic hair.,'” the lawsuit says of the Journal story.

There were some amused reactions to the Good Liars’ prank:

Photo courtesy of the Political Tribune media library. 


Stephen Silver
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