“I am not suggesting that someone didn’t fake the card 20 years ago…but I doubt it anyone put together a faked book 20 years ago to trap Trump today. It sounds more like a joke…a 20 year old joke.”
Could be. One would need to see the other cards to understand the context. May have been fake cards from other celebrities. Ghislaine or someone may have crafted the fake ones amongst the real ones.
I can remember a similar gag from work in the 1970s.
Point is — no one can prove where those joke cards came from and who did them.
The following scenario seems plausible: Twenty years ago Ghislaine Maxwell was rounding up cards for Epstein’s 50th birthday. If Trump dragged his feet, she might have created the card and either bugged Trump into signing it, or signed it for him. Your comment about needing to see all the cards (and even how they were bound) is dead on. The motive could have been as simple as wanting a good showing to please Epstein — or as cynical as helping Epstein create the appearance of connections with wealthy people to impress/entice others into his circle.