Epstein Crimes Finally Closing in on Trump?

Smoking gun (maybe) released. Plus: Colbert, our usual cartoons, Wilco, and tribute to Tatsuya Nakadai.

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Stop the presses, this just out at NY Times, and (of course) Michael Wolff at center of it. Also, references to “hanging.”

Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct

In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald J. Trump spent hours at his house with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims.

This comes as the House gets back in session today and Mike Johnson forced to swear in new Dem member, who will sign petition for release of Epstein files that will be the final signature needed to force release (maybe).

Mike Lukovich, in takeoff on the classic Rockwell Thanksgiving image:

Have to pay tribute on the passing at the age of 92 of the last of Kurosawa’s great actors, and one of best anywhere, Tatsuya Nakadai. Just considering his Kurosawa roles, his range was incredible from the young gun waver in “Yojimbo” to the elderly and failing King Leary lead in “Ran.” I saw so many of his films in the 1980s at the Japan Society as a member—including in the epic “The Human Condition”—and met him briefly at one affair. So here from “Ran,” one of most astounding scenes in movie history, and then going back to “Yojimbo,” with Mifune, of course.

No new music that I’ve found today so an old favorite back in rotation—and you might say reflecting my own obsessions (“I need a camera”)—from classic Wilco album:

From Tune to Toons

Steve Brodner with a timely Epstein appearance:

Zyglis:

Michael de Adder:

Matt Davies:

Tjeerd Royaards:

Photo Finish

Continuing my new feature, from my camera to you, let me know what you think, today: “The Louvre, In the Rain, Paris.”