Trump’s Epstein Letter Denial Faces New Setback
The controversy around Donald Trump and a letter tied to Jeffrey Epstein has taken yet another sharp turn. What began months ago with Trump’s firm denial of authoring a lewd birthday note has now been reignited after new evidence was made public. And this time, the blow to his denial looks harder to dismiss.
Here’s the background. The Wall Street Journal first reported on the existence of a strange birthday message allegedly written by Trump to Epstein in 2003. The letter wasn’t just words on a page. It contained a silhouette of a woman’s body, with a playful, and some say inappropriate, exchange between Trump and Epstein typed inside the drawing. At the bottom was a “Donald” signature, placed in a spot many have described as lewd.
From the start, Trump flatly rejected the story. He called the letter “FAKE,” said he never wrote it, and even filed a lawsuit against the Journal. He claimed he never drew pictures and insisted someone else could have written the note and forged his name. His allies quickly backed him up. Vice President JD Vance blasted the reporting as “utter nonsense.” Other surrogates argued the signature didn’t match Trump’s famous jagged autograph.
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But the situation shifted this week when the House Oversight Committee revealed they had received the actual birthday book from Epstein’s estate. That’s important—because for this letter to be fake, it would have had to be planted in Epstein’s possessions years before his death. Democrats on the committee even released images of the page, showing the suggestive drawing and Trump’s name clearly visible.
Now the signature itself has become the focus. Trump’s team insists it doesn’t resemble his known autograph. But examples from the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s have surfaced showing Trump sometimes signed his first name with the same loopier style found in the letter. In fact, old inscriptions, charity doodles, and personal notes match up closely. That makes the denial harder to sustain.
Of course, Trump has tried to explain this away before. At one point, he said he “never wrote a picture in my life.” But records show he donated sketches to charity, even signing drawings as recently as 2004—just a year after the Epstein letter was dated.
So where does this leave things? On one hand, the letter might not drastically change what is already known about Trump and Epstein’s past friendship. On the other, the aggressive denials, the lawsuit, and now the mounting evidence make it look like another self-inflicted problem. Instead of ignoring a story that might have faded, Trump chose to fight it head-on, and each new document release seems to undercut his position.
Whether this letter truly matters in the big picture remains to be seen. But the political damage may lie not in what was written, but in the fact that Trump’s denials are being weakened by his own history—and by the very evidence his opponents are now putting on display.
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