I have no idea what is the truth here, but last time I was looking at birthday cards on Amazon, I came across a whole bunch of Trump themed ones, and I seem to remember some of them pretended to be from Trump. So it is possible in my mind that the Trump birthday thing was something like that.
The least-surprising news of the day:
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I have my doubts in the current climate that WSJ would go up against the violently litigious Trump on the word of “Trust me, it has his signature”.
But I could be wrong.
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I suspect discovery could be a massive minefield for Trump.
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Yes, today you can find cards like that. The birthday letter was from 2003, and Epstein saved it so it was presumably from someone important to him.
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Like other recent “settlements”, there will be no discovery. WSJ/NewsCorp will pay a massive bribe before it gets to discovery, not admitting fault but at the same time securing more access to Dear Leader.
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I suspected that to be the case, but when I re-reviewed the article, I noticed the first two paragraphs:
Same guy who had to deny at a debate his penis is not small due to his hand size.
FWIW, Legal Eagle takes a look at the Epstein Files
So… Trump sent Epstein a Trump-themed card from Amazon before anyone was selling Trump-themed cards and before Amazon existed?
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uhhhhh… you may have missed the point here 
I think you forgot to quote this part of what I said, too
“Something like that” does not mean “exactly that”.
But I do like how you are getting into the spirit of strategically wording things, just like the WSJ is
Yeah clearly they’ve gotten more careful over time, but I think I noticed some weasel wording in the original article copied from the WSJ to Yahoo maybe? Could be wrong, maybe they explicitly (pun intended) attributed the drawing to Trump in the article. Not planning on paying for a subscription just to check.
This is typical Trump. Spend a massive amount of money on lawyers on something that won’t dispute his guilt but will instead allow him to discredit the allegations.
I think you could assume at this point that 1) there is one specific detail in the wording of the article that is inaccurate and 2) Trump and epstein had overlapping social circles and knew each other well enough that him signing a birthday card for him happened.
The WSJ will retract the bit that’s wrong and pay Trump 100m, Trump will claim he was right, everyone will move on.
They could ask him to show damages. I’ve heard that the bar for a public figure to win a libel case is pretty high. If it went to court, I could see Trump winning and being awarded $1.
You are assuming that the WSJ is willing to outspend Trump on lawyers to get to that settlement.
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