Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailGet our free Inside Washington emailLawyers for the estate of deceased sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein have provided a copy of the birthday book to the House Oversight Committee that includes the alleged “bawdy” letter from Donald Trump that features a hand-drawn figure of a naked woman along with the president’s signature, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.The president has denied writing the letter to Epstein for his 50th birthday, calling it a “fake thing” and suing both the WSJ and owner Rupert Murdoch for defamation, calling the letter “nonexistent.” A spokesperson for the WSJ’s publisher Dow Jones said: “We have full confidence in the rigor and accuracy of our reporting.”“President Trump called the Epstein investigation a hoax and claimed that his birthday note didn’t exist. Now we know that Donald Trump was lying and is doing everything he can to cover up the truth,” Oversight ranking member Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) said on Monday. “Enough of the games and lies, release the full files now.”The publication of the letter comes more than two months after the Wall Street Journal first reported on its existence, noting that the “bawdy” card was allegedly sent to Epstein in 2003 as part of a 50th birthday present to the disgraced financier. The card features the figure of a nude woman with Trump’s signature seemingly mimicking pubic hair.open image in galleryThe image of the alleged birthday card that Donald Trump sent to Jeffrey Epstein was released by the House Oversight Committee. (X/@OversightDems)open image in galleryDonald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein appear together in a photo on the side of a van. The estate of Epstein has provided an alleged birthday book to the Oversight Committee. (REUTERS)“Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret,” the letter reads. The card also features an imagined conversation between Epstein and Trump in which the president tells Epstein that “enigmas never age” and “we have certain things in common.” The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. However, Deputy White House Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich took to social media to insist that the signature wasn’t Trump’s and that News Corp, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, should quickly settle its lawsuit.“Time for @newscorp to open that checkbook, it’s not his signature. DEFAMATION!” Budowich tweeted.While Budowich asserted that the signature was not the president’s, contemporary authenticated letters from Trump —such as one to iconic radio host Larry King in 1999 — feature signatures that appear to be identical to the one included in the alleged birthday card.The official social media account for the Oversight Democrats quickly released an image of the letter. “HERE IT IS: We got Trump’s birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein that the President said doesn’t exist,” the accont stated. “Trump talks about a ‘wonderful secret’ the two of them shared. What is he hiding? Release the files!”Following the president’s lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, which came amid a firestorm of criticism from MAGA world over the administration’s handling of the so-called Epstein Files, Garcia and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) pressed Epstein’s estate to release the book in order to “assist in bringing transparency and accountability” to the case. Lawyers for the deceased sex predator’s estate turned over a copy of the book on Monday following a subpoena from the committee chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY).The 2003 birthday book, which was created three years before Epstein’s first arrest, is professionally bound and contains a number of other letters from prominent figures such as former President Bill Clinton and billionaire Leon Black, among others. Trump’s letter is listed under the “Friends” section in the book’s table of contents, alongside Clinton. Before a falling out that Trump claims happened in the mid-2000s because Epstein poached employees from Mar-a-Lago, the president regularly socialized with the financier in both Palm Beach and New York. Trump also made numerous flights on the private plane of Epstein, who was also frequently photographed at the president’s Florida estate.The 2003 book was put together by Epstein’s longtime partner Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving 20 years in prison on sex trafficking charges related to Epstein’s alleged crimes. During a recent interview with Justice Department officials, Maxwell – who has since been transferred to a minimum-security prison facility – stated that she assembled the book but couldn’t recall the names of those who contributed letters.Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported that other people who assisted Maxwell on the project for Epstein’s 50th birthday recalled seeing Trump’s letter among the other contributions while compiling the book.This is a breaking story…
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Trump’s alleged ‘bawdy’ birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein is now public
