Rumors were swirling all week that a legacy media outlet had its hands on a major scoop connecting Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein. There was plenty of speculation over what that could be, and we finally got the answer.
The Wall Street Journal published an article Thursday evening about a “bawdy” letter Trump allegedly wrote to Epstein as part of a fiftieth birthday gift Ghislaine Maxwell was putting together in 2003. The president denied the report and has vowed to sue, but the whole story has largely been met with a shrug.
On Friday’s show, Megyn was joined by Maureen Callahan, host of MK Media’s The Nerve with Maureen Callahan, to discuss the WSJ report and why it has proven to be a “nothingburger.”
The WSJ Report
Citing “documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal,” the outlet reported that Maxwell collected letters from Trump and dozens of other Epstein associates, including billionaire Leslie Wexner and attorney Alan Dershowitz, for a 2003 birthday album.
Among the documents was what the Journal described as a “letter bearing Trump’s name” that “is bawdy — like others in the album.” The note reportedly contained “several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman” that “appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker.” The drawing allegedly featured “a pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts,” and “the future president’s signature is a squiggly ‘Donald’ below her waist, mimicking pubic hair.”
WSJ reported that the typed message was “styled as an imaginary conversation between Trump and Epstein” and “written in the third person.” It allegedly read:
Voice Over: There must be more to life than having everything.
Donald: Yes, there is, but I won’t tell you what it is.
Jeffrey: Nor will I, since I also know what it is.
Donald: We have certain things in common, Jeffrey.
Jeffrey: Yes, we do, come to think of it.
Donald: Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?
Jeffrey: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you.
Donald: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.
People who have reviewed the leather-bound album told the Journal that the pages were among documents examined by Department of Justice officials who investigated Epstein and Maxwell years ago, but it is “unclear if any of the pages are part of the Trump administration’s recent review.”
In an interview with WSJ conducted Tuesday evening, the president denied writing the letter and drawing the picture. “This is not me. This is a fake thing. It’s a fake Wall Street Journal story,” he said. “I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women. It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”
He told the outlet he would “sue The Wall Street Journal just like I sued everyone else,” if the article was published. On Truth Social Thursday night, Trump suggested he spoke with WSJ owner Rupert Murdoch directly, who told him “he would take care of it but, obviously, did not have the power to do so.”
The ‘Nothing Burger’
Rather than the bombshell that was expected, Megyn said the piece amounts to a “bomb of an attack” on President Trump. “It’s an absolute nothingburger. I laughed when I saw it,” she explained. “The big shock piece the Journal’s been working on that’s gotten all this buzz amongst journalists in the days leading up to it is that Trump allegedly… in 2003, wrote Jeffrey Epstein a letter as part of a group of letters that came from people like Alan Dershowitz and many others?”
In Megyn’s view, the letter was either something pre-written and presented to Trump to sign-off on or is “totally fake.” But she doesn’t think it matters. “Either way, I don’t care,” she said. “Because it is a bawdy, stupid letter that is totally meaningless. This is not… Trump with a 12-year-old, which is really where the Dems were going with this.”
Callahan agreed. “If there was a smoking gun involving Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, we would have known it by now,” she said. “We wouldn’t be waiting for the Wall Street Journal to break it mid-President Trump’s second term as president. It’s absurd.”
She also questioned what was left out of the report. “Why did… the Journal not reprint the actual documents,” she asked. “I want to see a physical document because who has a more distinctive signature than Donald Trump? His signature looks like skyscrapers… I just don’t believe it.”
What Comes Next?
In the wake of the report, Trump signaled he is open to the release of additional documents related to Epstein. “Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval,” he wrote on Truth Social. “This SCAM, perpetuated by the Democrats, should end, right now!”
Megyn said she isn’t sure a judge would okay the release, but she believes this is the beginning of the end of the Epstein story regardless. “Like I said yesterday, no amount of disclosures, at this point, is really going to satisfy President Trump’s worst critics,” she said. “And frankly, now that it has turned into this Democrat bloodbath and into ‘let’s get him’ from all these fakers who claim that they care about this, I’m really kind of out.”
“I would love to see more disclosure on Epstein… but I don’t know what would do it… There is never going to be enough disclosure. We are never really going to know what happened on Epstein,” she continued. “And the Democrats are making such a mountain out of all this and trying to pin it on Donald Trump like he is Jeffrey Epstein 2.0… It has crossed over to the point of absurd now.”
You can check out Megyn’s full interview with Callahan by tuning in to episode 1,111 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.