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I think the evidence against it being intended seriously is that Trump is an apparently straight man. Now, there's a lot of reasons an apparently straight man would suck off a dude, so it's far from impossible, but: the vast majority of apparently straight men are actually straight, and the vast majority of straight men would prefer not to have oral sex with a man, so I think this does count as evidence against it being literally true.
There's a particular online discourse that sees Trump and MAGA as not merely being a bit hypocritical, but as being extremely hypocritical - a strand which believes that every Republican expressing homophobia as being closeted. So I think while people understand on one level that it's not reasonable to think that some random guy who professed to be straight actually sucked off another guy on the basis of an email from someone shady, when the guy is not random but the leader of MAGA, those people instead leap on it because it fits with that hypocrisy narrative.
You're absolutely right that we don't know which of the possibilities is true, but I said what I did because it seems like a lot of people are just taking it at face value, which doesn't seem smart.
Eh, I haven't seen any evidence that Trump is straight. Evidence that he's definitely not gay, sure, but no real evidence of straightness. Sure, he's in a heterosexual marriage, but so is my wife and she's bi, so that's not much to go off of. He seems to pass legislation that harms the wellbeing of lgbtq folks, but it's not uncommon for people in power to show disdain for lgbtq people while being one themselves. It's also not uncommon for folks to experiment with their sexuality in their early adult years, even if he isn't bi, that doesn't take blowing someone completely off the table.
The long and short of it is that I haven't seen anything that would make me think Trump wouldn't have blown some guy. It's not hard to believe that he were willing to blow a guy, especially if it were a one-off thing he was trying in the spur of the moment at an Epstein sex party. It's honestly a toss-up, and to act like it's more or less likely to have gone one way or the other seems foolhardy here.
Also, do you have links to anywhere that Trump has professed to being straight? I couldn't find any personally, but if you have them then that would make it more likely this email was just a joke. But if you don't have them I can't help but feel you are doing the exact thing you claim to be against: spreading misinformation.