Few issues higher illustrate why there was a steep decline within the high quality of writing at The New Yorker below the editorship of David Remnick than his absurd response to discovering out {that a} letter supposedly written by Jeffrey Epstein to convicted serial intercourse offender Larry Nassar which implicated President Donald Trump in one thing unhealthy has been decided to be faux.
On Tuesday, Remnick revealed simply how sadly his obsession over his Orange Whale has overwhelmed him to the extent that he has laughably misplaced no matter sense of rationality he might need left as you may see in “Trump, Epstein, and the Ladies.”
For the primary a number of paragraphs the livid Remnick hurled cost after cost towards Trump earlier than he touched on the supposedly damning Epstein letter to Nassar:
On Tuesday, because the Justice Division continued to launch the avalanche of paperwork and pictures recognized collectively because the Epstein recordsdata, some, however hardly all, main information retailers reported on a letter purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar, the previous U.S.A. Gymnastics workforce physician who abused lots of of feminine athletes and pleaded responsible in 2018 to seven counts of first-degree legal sexual assault. The letter was postmarked August 13, 2019, three days after Epstein killed himself in his Manhattan jail cell. The handwritten textual content displays contempt for Trump and hints darkly about his previous. Whereas all three males shared a “love of younger, nubile women,” Epstein supposedly wrote, and the President “liked to ‘seize snatch,’ ” solely Epstein and Nassar had “ended up snatching grub within the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair.”
The existence of a letter was cited in a 2023 dispatch by the Related Press. However is it actual? There isn’t any purpose to imagine that it’s. Julie Ok. Brown, the Miami Herald investigative reporter who has been on the Epstein beat for a few years, wrote on X, “That is suspect to me, largely as a result of Jeffrey Epstein didn’t know the way to spell. It doesn’t appear to suit with the way in which he wrote, both. Plus it actually appears like a girl’s handwriting.” The Justice Division later introduced on X that “the FBI has confirmed this alleged letter from Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar is FAKE.”
It seems that even Remnick accepts that the Epstein letter is faux. So did that trigger him to even rethink his costs towards Trump? Nope. And right here is Remnick’s twisted rationale: “The case for this President’s indecency hardly requires placing a doubtful letter into proof.”
So faux however correct?
Remnick then digs himself even deeper right into a gap by claiming that we do not actually need no stinkin’ paperwork since he one way or the other is aware of that Trump is responsible… of one thing:
…As we proceed to sift every day by the detritus of Trump’s accumulating file and biography, we maintain residing with the notion that one way or the other, someplace, there’ll seem a doc or a element so grotesque, so damning, that the nation will lastly rise as one to declare this Presidency at an finish. Only one extra occasion of sexual assault; of merciless and unlawful deportations; of monetary self-dealing. Only one extra indulgence of racism and antisemitism within the MAGA camp; yet another outrageous insult hurled towards a international chief or a feminine reporter; yet another violation of constitutional and institutional norms.
What has pushed Remnick’s newest descent into TDS darkness has been the truth that like the remainder of the left, he had positioned his fervent hopes on the launched Epstein recordsdata implicating Trump in misdeeds. Sadly for poor Remnick the Epstein recordsdata revealed no such factor which seems to have brought about his absurd embrace with sheer irrationality.
The upside to Remnick’s irrationality is that it has impressed widespread mirth comparable to this:
The Nassar letter—real or not, it virtually does not matter ultimately!…. Remnick goes all Hitler Diaries on us. https://t.co/llFlyWYm28
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) December 24, 2025
