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Stephen Colbert on Donald Trump's Epstein birthday letter, as reported by the Wall Street Journal

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On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert's monologue takes on the Wall Street Journal report that Trump sent Jeffrey Epstein a sexually suggestive letter for his 50th birthday in 2003. Colbert reads out the Journal's description: typewritten lines framed by what appears to be a hand-drawn outline of a naked woman, with a squiggly "Donald" signature below her waist.

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Who
Stephen Colbert
Where
monologue - The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Original footage
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · watch the full video from this moment
Length
56 seconds, unedited within the cut
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Um... On Friday, the Wall Street Journal dropped an absolute bombshell. They are reporting that in 2003, Trump sent a birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday that was sexually suggestive. Yeah. It's the most inappropriate birthday gift since Carvel debuted, Fudgy the Hung Like a Whale. Now, according... On the Wall Street Journal, Trump's letter featured several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand -drawn with heavy marker in the drawing, a pair of small arcs to notes the woman's breasts, and the future president's signature is a squiggly Donald below her waist, mimicking pubic hair. Do you know what that means? That means Donald Trump has drawn pubic hair on every executive order. That's that is not

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