Trump’s signature, a symbol of presidential power, is under new scrutiny thanks to the Epstein case
An American president’s signature is one of the most powerful symbols on the planet. It can Set your tax invoice, your Immigration And who does it or not Get help The world’s largest economy.
Now, Donald Trump’s unique signature is strictly examined Unimaginable reason.
Two documents Jeffrey Epstein The 50th birthday album includes Trump’s signature-one of which is on a risky line of a female body, and the other holds an innovation control bearing Epstein’s Trump’s name. A Parliamentary Committee published its 2003 book on Monday, and some members insist on very chain black signatures. The White House says he did not sign the president’s letter or the later, Epstein. Exposed as a sex criminal And He died by suicide In 2019 in prison.
“This is not my signature, Tr Trump said to journalists outside a restaurant in Washington on Tuesday night. And that’s not my way of speaking. On Tuesday, in a telephone conversation with President NBC News, he declared the Epstein issue as a “dead problem ..
“Birthday Book” signatures are partially important because they are perceived because they are close Trump was for epstein Before the president said he had ended his friendship twenty years ago.
And after years of speculation and conspiracy theories that lasted by many of Trump and its allies, it is part of a two -party pressure in the Congress for the publication of Epstein files. In August, the Ministry of Justice began to transfer records from the Epstein sex trade investigation to the Parliament Surveillance Committee.
Signatures have an authority history. But now?
According to the standards of handwriting academicians, it is difficult to determine whether Trump is the signature. According to the standards of the US political system, this is impossible. Despite a similarity to Trump’s other signatures, Partizan directs the view of loyalty.
Tamara Plakins Thornton, a professor of history at the university in Buffalo and the author of “Hand Writing in America: A Cultural History” writer Tamara Plakins Thornton, has given authority and originality since the 19th century increased its popularity in the 19th century.
Thor We have fond of signatures as traces of the unique self, Thor says Thornton. “But of course, if you think about it, it has been a kind of balloney.
Tyler Feldman, the owner of Inscriptagraphs, a souvenir company in Las Vegas, said, “It is a very difficult thing to prove authenticity.” Authorized, Multibillion dollar souvenir industry, experts through contracted science and analysis of an object’s originality of the originality, he said. In the age of artificial intelligence and deep teeth, he added, “There is too much fraud signature,” he added, “Although he doesn’t sign and sign, it’s hard to say.”
However, signatures have a great value – and have a long history in the American folklore.
Signature items Themselves are the symbols of the situation Presidential access, shown as signs of influence in the lobby and congress offices around Washington. For example, it is traditional for presidents to sign the laws using more than one pencil to laws, then on the camera, which they usually give to the stakeholders. Then home speaker Nancy Pelosi Did the same thing In 2020, when Trump signed articles against Trump, a separate and equal government branch, which means a power elasticity.
John Hancock, one of the founders of the country, signed his name to the Declaration of Independence in a large and flashy style – it is better for the King of England to read without their glasses, legendary. Now, a pseudonym for the signature of the person “John Hancock”.
If not evidence, signatures point to stubborn political pain for Trump
Even Trump Can see from experience In particular, the fact that allies cannot command the large areas of their own base after they stock the call of release Epstein files. He tried it over and over again attract attention with Other issues And Shame “weak” Who continues to ask about Epstein. Trump called the scandal “A democratic deception that never ends” And promised Sue The Wall Street JournalHe first revealed this letter.
Even the characterization of “deception” changed against logic questions: Who would put his signature in 2003 and why? On Tuesday, the White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt said that it was a democratic and media narrative that çi dragging this bad story about it ”. He said the White House will support Trump’s alleged signature on Epstein Scrapbook.
Republican Thomas Massie, leading a bilateral pressure for a bilateral vote to force Epstein files to release Epstein files, played the relevance level of the letter.
“I think the document is distracted, Mass Massie said. Orum I think that people who try to prevent the publication of these documents are the reliability of the people who try to prevent them. It is an indication of things that may arise if we were to publish all files. In other words: Shameful, but cannot be shown. ”
Trump understands the value of his signature
Trump was a celebrity before becoming a politician and is an extension of the signature brand. He has been likely to send notes to people for a long time, always with the thick sample at the bottom. In December 2015, Trump, Manassas, Virginia, Rock star -style rally was widely photographed by signing the chest of a female supporter. Smiling, according to the photos of the stock market, a kiss was blown up.
Understands the value of authenticity: Trump repeated in June Long -term claims He said that President Joe Biden automatically trusts and doubts his validity to sign the White House’s presidential excuses, executive orders and other key documents. Trump, who pressureed by journalists, admitted that there was no such evidence and Biden said that such a proposal was wrong.
As president, Trump keeps Sharpie signs useful. When USA went to OpenHe signed a hat on Sunday and threw it to the supporters in the crowd.
Trump also likes the theatricality of the signing of documents, which is a way to show the power of the presidency. As he completes the executive orders, he often calls the press to the oval office. He puts an ancillary document on the table in front of him, draws Trump signature, and then holds it for the cameras.
“Seriously, is that a good signature?” He asked at such a session on August 25th. “Who can write like that? Nobody.”
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Kellman reported from London. Associated Press writers Chris Megerian and Matt Brown contributed to Washington’s report.
