HAVING EVERYTHING: The House Oversight Committee released files turned over by the estate of the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, including the infamous  50^th birthday book and drawing signed by Donald Trump that the President claimed does not exist.

  The drawing is a simple curved profile of a woman’s body with eight lines of dialogue between Trump and Epstein with Trump’s jagged signature rather than pubic hair.

  The dialogue starts:

Voice Over:

There must be more to life than having everything

Donald:

Yes there is but I won’t tell you what it is

Jeffrey:

Nor will I, since I also know what it is

  Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, wrote on social media, “As I have said all along, it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it.” 

  The birthday book is loaded with references to Epstein’s lecherous life. “So many girls, so little time,” wrote one well-wisher. Included in the book is an image of an oversized check representing Epstein jokingly selling a “fully depreciated” woman to Donald Trump for $22,500.  The book also has a greeting from former President Bill Clinton. 

  Representative Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the committee, said in a statement. “It’s time for the president to tell us the truth about what he knew and release all the Epstein files.”

SUCCESSION: An agreement within the Murdoch media empire family is installing son Lachlan Murdoch to be the successor to his father Rupert, who built the company over 70 years. The appointment of Lachlan ensures that the company that owns The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, and Fox News will continue with its hysterical right wing bent.

  The 54 year old Lachlan is reported to have reached a $3.3 billion deal with his older siblings, who would at the least have toned down the content of Fox News and the Post. The three had fought a legal battle with their father to preserve control of the trust that owns the companies. Now they appear to have signed it away.

LA MIGRA:  The Department of Homeland Security announced the start of a new immigration operation Monday in Chicago … “Operation Midway Blitz” … moving local leaders to prepare for an influx of federal agents and even the National Guard. Immigrant advocates are telling people to be prepared and “know your rights.” 

THE REGIME:

— The Supreme Court yesterday lifted a federal judge’s order prohibiting government agents from making immigration-related stops in the Los Angeles area that challengers called “blatant racial profiling.” People were being stopped because of their looks and language.

  The court’s three liberal members dissented. “We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish and appears to work a low wage job,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, joined by Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

  Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement, “I want the entire nation to hear me when I say this isn’t just an attack on the people of Los Angeles, this is an attack on every person in every city in this country.” 

— A panel of three federal appeals judges in Manhattan yesterday upheld the $83.3 million jury award against President Trump for defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019, after she accused him of rape in a Manhattan department store, the attack for which he was also found liable for sexual abuse.

  The court rejected Mr. Trump’s argument that he was shielded from the judgement by presidential immunity.

  Trump attacked and demeaned Carroll repeatedly, even during trial. Judge Lewis Kaplan, who decided the case in favor of Carroll, said that “the degree of reprehensibility of Mr. Trump’s conduct was remarkably high, perhaps unprecedented.”

PRIVATE RYAN: A West Point alumni group canceled the event in which actor Tom Hanks was to be given the Sylvanus Thayer Award, the annual recognition by the West Point Association of Graduates to an American citizen who exemplifies the West Point motto, “Duty, honor, country.”

  In its original decision to give Hanks the award, the Association of Graduates cited the actor’s roles in films like “Forrest Gump,” “Apollo 13,” “Saving Private Ryan,” as well as his work on “Band of Brothers,” “The Pacific,” “Masters of the Air,” and “Greyhound.”

  The group said they cancelled in order to allow “the Academy to continue its focus on its core mission of preparing cadets to lead, fight, and win as officers in the world’s most lethal force, the United States Army,” according to an email written by the group’s president.

  In June the chair of the alumni group said, “Tom Hanks has done more for the positive portrayal of the American service member, more for the caring of the American veteran, their caregivers and their family, and more for the American space program and all branches of government than many other Americans.”

  Hanks, of course, is a critic of President Trump, who posted on social media, “We don’t need destructive, WOKE recipients getting our cherished American Awards!!!”

THE SPIN RACK: Oliver North, the retired marine Officer embroiled in the Reagan-era Iran-Contra weapon sales scandal, quietly married his former secretary, Fawn Hall, 40 years after they were in the daily news. He’s 81 and she’s 65, both previously married. The beautiful blonde Hall at the time gave sex appeal to the story, admitting  that as his secretary she helped North shred mountains of documents related to Iran-Contra as the Justice Department caught wind of illegal weapons sales.

BELOW THE FOLD:  Analysis of sewage on exclusive Nantucket island off the coat of Massachusetts, a summer playground for the rich and famous,  revealed cocaine levels 50 percent higher than the national average.

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