Trump's alleged letter among 'Friends' section in Epstein's birthday book

[ad_1] The GOP-led Home Oversight Committee says it has obtained paperwork and communications from the Jeffrey Epstein property on Monday -- together with the Epstein "birthday ebook," which is alleged to include the letter that President Donald Trump allegedly signed for Epstein's fiftieth birthday in 2003.

After Democrats on the Oversight Committee made public the alleged letter from Trump and one different web page from Epstein’s fiftieth Brithday E book, the Republican chairman of the committee, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., subsequently launched practically all of the paperwork supplied to the committee by the Epstein property, together with the birthday ebook, Epstein’s final will and testomony from 2019 and another paperwork which are already a part of the general public report.

This 238-page PDF doc of the birthday ebook features a “prologue” that claims it was written by Ghislaine Maxwell. The contributors are divided into classes: Household, Brooklyn, Girlfriends (whose names are all redacted), Kids (names all redacted), Buddies, Science, Particular Assistants (all redacted) and Enterprise.

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Donald Trump is listed among the many contributors beneath the “Buddies” class within the desk of contents, which additionally consists of: Leon Black, Jean-Luc Brunel, Invoice Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, Henry Jarecki, George Mitchel (sic), Joel Pashcow, Lesley Wexner, Mort Zuckerman and others.

There's a {photograph} of the ebook’s binding that reads “The First Fifty Years.”

The ebook additionally consists of dozens of images from Epstein’s youth, a duplicate of his delivery certificates, a Boy Scout’s commencement certification from 1963, a photograph of an 8-year-old Epstein taking part in the accordion on stage at a Bar Mitzvah and a number of other pictures of Epstein with varied ladies, whose faces are redacted, apart from Ghislaine Maxwell.

Rating Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia posted a photograph on X that Democrats say is the web page attributed to Trump.

Trump has denied writing the letter -- calling it "pretend." The president had additionally denied the existence of the letter, submitting a $10 billion defamation lawsuit towards the Wall Road Journal for its report that the birthday ebook contained a "bawdy" letter from Trump.

Dow Jones, the mother or father firm of the newspaper, in response to the lawsuit stated in an announcement that it has "full confidence within the rigor and accuracy" of its reporting and "will vigorously defend towards any lawsuit."

The White Home is denying that the picture shared by Democrats is the president's signature. In a put up on X, White Home deputy chief of workers Taylor Budowich stated "Time for @newscorp to open that checkbook, it isn't his signature. DEFAMATION!"

White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt, in an official response, additionally denied the truth that the signature depicted within the birthday ebook picture is Trump's. She stated that Trump's authorized workforce will "proceed to aggressively pursue litigation" towards the Wall Road Journal.

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Vice President JD Vance posted a response to Leavitt's assertion, saying the discharge of the paperwork was "one other pretend scandal” and calling it a "smear."

"The Democrats do not care about Epstein. They don’t even care about his victims. That is why they have been silent about it for years. The one factor they care about is concocting one other pretend scandal like Russiagate to smear President Trump with lies,” Vance wrote. "Nobody is falling for this BS."

The committee issued a subpoena in late August for data from the property, which included a duplicate of the alleged birthday ebook compiled for the disgraced financier's fiftieth birthday. The committee had requested a supply of the paperwork -- which incorporates banking and monetary information, flights logs and calendars -- on or earlier than Sept. 8, 2025.

Home Oversight Committee Chairman Consultant James Comer of Kentucky on the US Capitol, in Washington, September 2, 2025.

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Epstein's former affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell instructed a prime official for the Justice Division that Epstein requested her to coordinate contributions to his fiftieth birthday ebook, however stated she couldn't recall if Trump, then a personal citizen, was amongst those that responded, based on a transcript of Maxwell's interview final month with Deputy Lawyer Common Todd Blanche.

Maxwell was convicted in 2021 by a federal jury on intercourse trafficking and different fees. She is presently serving a 20-year jail sentence for aiding and taking part in Epstein's trafficking of underage ladies, which concerned a scheme to recruit younger ladies and ladies for massages of Epstein that turned sexual. Federal prosecutors in New York stated Maxwell helped Epstein recruit, groom and in the end abuse ladies as younger as 14. Within the interview with the Justice Division official, Maxwell continued to profess her innocence.

Epstein was arrested in July 2019 and charged in a federal indictment with conspiracy and little one intercourse trafficking. He died in custody a month later, whereas awaiting trial. His dying was dominated a suicide by hanging.

In response to the developments surrounding the birthday ebook and the alleged letter from Trump, Brad Edwards, an lawyer for scores of Epstein survivors, stated that Trump's "hypocrisy has been most irritating for the victims."

"He instructed the general public the Epstein story ought to ‘go away,’ but filed a $10 billion lawsuit that solely magnifies the very subject he desires silenced," Edwards instructed ABC Information. "With immediately’s launch, the least he may do is withdraw that lawsuit and publicly apologize to the journalists he attacked for reporting what appears to have now proved to be true.”

After the Wall Road Journal story and the White Home denials, Edwards had publicly referred to as on lawmakers in July to subject a subpoena to the property for the birthday ebook, telling ABC Information that "the apparent and simple option to receive the ebook” can be to get it from attorneys for Epstein’s property.

“It is Jeffrey Epstein's fiftieth birthday ebook, and like all different related possessions, the property is clearly in possession of it," Edwards instructed ABC Information in July. "Ask or subpoena the property or their attorneys, and everybody will then have the ebook and may transfer on, which is greatest for the victims."

Final week, the Home Oversight Committee launched tens of 1000's of pages of paperwork associated to Epstein, a lot of which was already publicly identified.