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Donald Trump denies writing a sexually suggestive birthday note and creating an accompanying drawing found in Jeffrey Epstein’s 2003 birthday album, recently released by the House Oversight Committee and published by The Wall Street Journal. The note, purportedly signed by Trump, contains suggestive language. Trump’s team claims the signature is not his and alleges defamation, with Trump calling the report “false, malicious, and defamatory”. He has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal. Trump’s ties to Epstein are well-documented, although Trump claims a falling-out two decades ago. The committee obtained the album as part of a document subpoena from Epstein’s estate.
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Trump has said he did not write the birthday message or create the drawing of a curvaceous female figure that surrounds it. He filed a $10-billion US lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story in July.
The letter was included as part of a 2003 album compiled for Epstein’s birthday. The president has denied having anything to do with it. Democrats on the House oversight committee received a copy of the birthday album on Monday as part of a batch of documents from Epstein’s estate, and it was subsequently published by the Wall Street Journal on Monday afternoon.
The White House did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
This image posted to X on Monday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee shows a sexually suggestive birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein alluding to a ‘wonderful secret’ and purportedly signed by U.S. President Donald Trump. The president has denied sending the note. (@OversightDems/X/The Associated Press)
After the letter was released, White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich posted pictures on X of Trump’s signature and tagged The Wall Street Journal’s parent corporation, News Corp., writing: “Time for @newscorp to open that checkbook, it’s not his signature. DEFAMATION!”
Trump called the previous Wall Street Journal report on the letter “false, malicious and defamatory.”
“These are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don’t draw pictures,” Trump said at the time.
“A pal is a wonderful thing,” the message attributed to Trump reads. “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
The letter’s disclosure comes amid a bipartisan push in Congress for the release of the Epstein files following years of speculation and conspiracy theories. Calls for the release of the records came from Republicans, including Vice-President JD Vance before he was sworn into the country’s No. 2 position.
WATCH | Trump denies writing Epstein birthday letter:
Trump denies writing crude letter to Jeffrey Epstein
U.S. President Donald Trump denies writing a letter signed ‘Donald’ beneath a nude sketch in Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday album, details of which were published by the Wall Street Journal. The letter is now under review by the U.S. Justice Department.
Trump’s Epstein ties well documented
The case was brought more than a decade after he secretly cut a deal with federal prosecutors in Florida to dispose of nearly identical allegations. Epstein was accused of paying underage girls hundreds of dollars in cash for massages and then molesting them.
Trump’s ties to Epstein are well-documented, though he has said they had a falling-out two decades ago.
Trump has said he kicked the disgraced financier out of his private club in Florida after Epstein betrayed him more than once by hiring away people who had worked for him.
The president has not been accused of misconduct in connection with their social relationship.
From left, Donald Trump and Melania Trump pose with Jeffrey Epstein and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., in February 2000. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)
The committee subpoenaed the Epstein estate for documents last month. In addition to the book of birthday greetings, lawmakers requested Epstein’s last will and testament, agreements he signed with prosecutors, his contact books and his financial transactions and holdings.
