The Wall Street Journal has always been a contradictory institution. Its' editorial page is incredibly right wing, but its' reporting is top notch. So, the fact that the WSJ reported on Trump's deeply creepy birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein is just ten types of fascinating.
First, we can be incredibly sure that the WSJ sourced the hell out of that letter. It's real, both because Trump will sue and because the WSJ brings receipts. The assumption is that they have more stuff, but are waiting to see what happens with this story.
The obvious question is whether they ran this by Rupert Murdoch before running it. We have CBS firing Colbert, but letting him stay on the air for almost a full year, now News Corps leveling a devastating broadside into the SS Trump.
As Patrick Choanec points out, it's not a million different stories about Trump's outrageousness; it's one story with many parts. Epstein is increasingly being seen by even staid media as a legitimate story, and it's being seen that way in large part because Trump is forcing them to do so. There is also the growing perspective among the more leftward media figures that Epstein represents not only his own horrific crimes, but the broad elite impunity that rich men enjoy, that Trump has enjoyed.
Epstein avoided jail for a long time and Trump has also avoided jail time, despite being convicted of 34 felonies. The fact that Murdoch's Journal is the conduit for even more damaging evidence of the criminal (as opposed to symbolic) connection between these two is really, really remarkable.
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