Donald Trump refuted such claims and said he did not write the letter or create the drawing of a curvaceous woman that surrounds the letter, and he filed a USD 10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal for earlier reporting on his link to the letter.
The US Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released a sexually suggestive letter to Jeffrey Epstein purportedly signed by President Donald Trump, which he has denied. The letter was included as part of a 50th birthday album compiled in 2003 for Epstein, a wealthy and well-connected financier who was once a friend of Trump.
The full House committee on Monday night released a copy of the entire album, which bore names of some other prominent figures such as former President Bill Clinton and attorney Alan Dershowitz in a โfriendsโ section, and included other letters with sexually provocative language.
Trump says he did not write any letter to Epstein
However, Trump refuted such claims and said he did not write the letter or create the drawing of a curvaceous woman that surrounds the letter, and he filed a USD 10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal for earlier reporting on his link to the letter.
โAs I have said all along, it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it,โ White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement posted on X. โPresident Trump’s legal team will continue to aggressively pursue litigation.โ
It’s not his signature: White House on Trump
White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich posted various pictures on X of Trump’s signature over the years and wrote, โit’s not his signature.โ
As House Republicans left the Capitol on Monday night, many waved off questions about the letter, echoing a similar theme.
โIt’s not his signature. I’ve seen Donald Trump sign a million things,โ said Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida.
Rep. Thomas Massie, who is leading a bipartisan push for a House vote to force the Justice Department to release its Epstein files, downplayed the letter’s relevance entirely.
โIt doesn’t prove anything. Having a birthday card from Trump doesn’t help the survivors and the victims,โ Burchett said.
The release of the drawing comes as the president has for months faced increasing pressure to force more disclosure in the case of Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
Epstein was accused of paying underage girls hundreds of dollars in cash for massages and then molesting them, while Maxwell was convicted of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by him.
It also once again puts a spotlight on Trump’s former friendship with Epstein, which the president has said ended two decades ago after a falling-out.
Trump says he cut ties with Epstein
Trump said recently that he cut ties with Epstein because he โstoleโ young women โ including Virginia Giuffre, who was among Epstein’s most well-known sex trafficking accusers โ who worked for the spa at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
The case against Epstein was brought more than a decade after he secretly cut a deal with federal prosecutors in Florida to dispose of nearly identical allegations.
Trump had suggested during the presidential campaign that he’d seek to open the government’s files into Epstein, but much of what the government has released so far had already been out there.
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.
Trump has denied writing the letter and creating the drawing, calling The Wall Street Journal report on it โfalse, malicious, and defamatory.โ
โThese are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don’t draw pictures,โ Trump said.
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