Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein each have their own mug shot- side by side! Trump flew in Epstein's "Lolita Express" airplane many times

Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump have "wonderful secret in common," opinion published in the North Carolina Brunswick Beacon

Rupert Murdoch owns The Wall Street Journal and Fox (Fake❗) News. Murdoch advised Trump during his first term. They spoke “almost every day.” That didn’t stop the Journal from publishing birthday greetings Trump sent his “pal,” convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump wrote: “We have certain things in common, Jeffrey. A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.” The text is inside the outline of a naked woman, hand-drawn in heavy marker, with two semi-circles for breasts, and Trump’s squiggly “Donald” scrawled below her waist for pubic hair.

Trump denied sending it, claiming, “I never wrote a picture in my life.” Then, the New York Times published six Trump pictures, hand-drawn in heavy marker and auctioned for charity, just as Trump described in his 2008 book, “Trump Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges Into Success.” Trump wrote, “It takes me a few minutes to draw a building or cityscape of skyscrapers, and sign my name, but it raises thousands of dollars.”

Epstein said, “I was Donald’s closest friend for 10 years.” (Michael Wolff wrote about how the two men were each other's best friends❗) 

What “wonderful secret” did the “wonderful pals” have “in common?” Trump said, “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It’s even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

Epstein’s pilot Lawrence Visoski testified that Trump flew on Epstein's private plane, “The Lolita Express,”❓❗ many times. Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino’s Chief Operating Officer, Jack O'Donnell, said Epstein was Trump’s “best friend…they hung out together. Once I came in and the commission inspectors were in my office. Donald and Jeffrey had three women with them, and the commission determined that the women were underaged." O'Donnell told Trump, “It’s not gonna look good, you and Epstein, coming here with these young women." That’s not such a wonderful secret after all.

Linda McConnell Baker in Leland, North Carolina

Donald Trump's obsession with sharks in Nevada- "Supdity cubed!"

Letter to the editor: We all live with electric submarines, published in the Brunswick Beacon in Shallotte, NC:

Speaking in land-locked Nevada, Donald Trump asked, ‘Would you rather be electrocuted or eaten by a 🦈shark?’

Trump hates sharks. Porn star Stormy Daniels, whose sexcapades with Trump brought him 34 felony convictions, said Trump “made me watch an entire documentary about shark attacks. He is obsessed with sharks…He was like, ‘I donate to all these charities and I would never donate to any charity that helps sharks.’”

Trump unintentionally confirmed Stormy’s account: “I’m not a big fan of sharks. I have people calling me up, ‘Sir, we have a fund to save the shark.’ I say ‘no thank you.’”

Trump told Nevadans that environmentalists are forcing manufacturers to build electric boats. Trump hates them, too. “What would happen if the boat sank from its weight?”, Trump worries. “You’re in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery and the battery is now underwater and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there? What I’d do if there was a shark or you get electrocuted, I’ll take electrocution every single time. I’m not getting near the shark!”

Horror novelist Stephen King compared it to “listening to your senile uncle at the dinner table after he has that third drink.”

Trump was once Commander-in-Chief of our military, including the Navy. If Trump’s dinghy hadn’t slipped its mooring, he’d remember that every WWII submarine ran on batteries.

If Trump’s reactor hadn’t melted down, he’d remember that nuclear subs make vast amounts of electricity to power themselves in emergencies.

If Trump’s periscope went all the way to the surface, he’d remember that, while he was president, the Navy awarded its largest shipbuilding contract ever, $22.2-billion for nine attack submarines, to the Electric Boat Company.

No Commander-in-Chief could forget that. Unless, like Trump, you’ve lost the thread so badly you’ve finally jumped the shark.

Michael P. Rush,  Leland, North Carolina