WaPo bureau chief tries to ‘expose’ Trump through beauty pageant contestants, admits there’s no story if they like him: OMG

James O’Keefe said that the American Dream calendar girl pageant winner from the 1990s had been reached out to by Viser "trying to get information on the relationship between Epstein and Trump." The woman reached out to O’Keefe Media Group and recorded the phone call.

Viser told the woman that "we’ve been trying to revisit that period when Trump was involved with the competition," and that "we’ve heard a little bit about Jeffrey Epstein being around at some competitions or parties and stuff like that."

He said that "If all we had was a bunch of people saying that Trump was a gentleman and he was very nice and, you know, treated everybody with respect, like, I don’t think we would do, do that story. We just wouldn’t do a story."

"So, I mean, I think we’re approaching it in the sense that if we can find out something new that was happening, that Trump was doing back then, you know, that we can kind of expose to people, i think that’s where we’re, that’s where we’re headed. And if I can’t get that, then I don’t, I don’t know that we have a story, but it’s definitely not a fluff piece of like, I don’t know, like Trump the businessman, or Trump, you know, the guy who is nice to everybody."

The Wall Street Journal came under fire in July after releasing a report about a birthday card allegedly written by Trump in 2003 for Epstein's birthday, featuring a nude drawing of a woman and ending in the line "Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret." Trump has denied writing the letter. "This is not me. This is a fake thing. It’s a fake Wall Street Journal story. I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women. It’s not my language. It’s not my words."