President Trump’s approval rating in the Strength In Numbers polling average is 42.6%, versus a 53.5% disapproval — a new low for his second term.

“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.”

— President Trump, quoted by Politico, denying he wrote an illustrated letter to Jeffrey Epstein, despite his his well-documented use of doodles.

ABC News reports the earlier “phase one” disclosure of the Epstein files contained a little-noticed “three-page catalog of evidence” that “offers a roadmap to the remaining trove of records that President Donald Trump’s administration has declined to release, including logs of who potentially visited Epstein’s private island and the records of a wiretap of Ghislaine Maxwell’s phone.”

“The White House on Thursday said that President Donald Trump has been diagnosed with a mild but chronic illness related to his age — a rare admission from one of the nation’s oldest presidents who has long sought to project vigor,” the Washington Post reports.

“Trump has chronic venous insufficiency, the White House physician said in a memorandum, a condition in which the legs have trouble delivering blood back to the heart.”

“President Trump announced Thursday night that he was authorizing Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek the public release of grand jury testimony from the prosecution of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, and Ms. Bondi said she would make that request in federal court on Friday,” the New York Times reports.

“He cited ‘the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein’ for his directive, which falls far short of demands from some congressional Republicans to make public all investigative files collected by the department and the FBI, not just testimony presented in federal court.”

Bondi said in response she’s “ready to move the court tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts.”

Wall Street Journal: “The letter bearing Trump’s name, which was reviewed by the Journal, is bawdy—like others in the album. It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts, and the future president’s signature is a squiggly ‘Donald’ below her waist, mimicking pubic hair.”

The letter concludes: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”

In an interview, Trump denied writing the letter or drawing the picture: “This is not me. This is a fake thing. It’s a fake Wall Street Journal story.”