Trump’s alleged Epstein ‘birthday book’ note emerges in scandal files
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The most scandalous detail yet: a Trump-linked note in Epstein’s "birthday book", raising fresh outrage over ties to the convicted sex offender.
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Protesters rally at a news conference calling for Congress to release all of the Jeffrey Epstein files, outside the US Capitol, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP)
House Democrats on Monday released what they described as a long-denied note from US President Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, alongside the full contents of Epstein’s infamous “birthday book”, a leather-bound album filled with explicit sketches and images contributed by Epstein’s associates.
The letter, handed over by lawyers for Epstein’s estate under subpoena, appears to show a sexually suggestive drawing accompanied by a handwritten exchange between Trump and Epstein. Beneath the sketch is a signature resembling Trump’s.
⚡️ Trump’s alleged birthday ‘letter’ to Epstein revealed
— RT (@RT_com) September 8, 2025
‘Signed’ by DJT
‘May every day be another wonderful SECRET’
WSJ says signature ‘mimicking PUBIC hair’ pic.twitter.com/j1zx718EMV
“The oversight committee has secured the infamous ‘Birthday Book’ that contains a note from President Trump that he has said does not exist,” said Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the committee. “It’s time for the president to tell us the truth about what he knew and release all the Epstein files.”
When the #Epstein files came knocking, #US President Donald Trump brought out memes, polls, and Coca-Cola.
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The note’s appearance aligns with a July Wall Street Journal report describing its contents. At the time, Trump dismissed the article as fabricated and insisted, “The supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE.”
White House response
The White House did not immediately comment. But Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications, Taylor Budowich, sought to discredit the evidence, posting an alternative sample of Trump’s signature on X. “Time for News Corp to open that check book, it’s not his signature. DEFAMATION!” he wrote, referencing Trump’s pending lawsuit against the Journal’s publisher, Dow Jones, and its parent company, News Corp.
Trump’s aides claim that the style of the signature shows it is forged. Yet, experts note that Trump often signed only his first name with a trailing flourish in earlier decades, a style closely matching the note. A 1995 letter from Trump displayed strikingly similar handwriting.
The note was one of dozens of contributions collected for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003. The book, formally titled The First Fifty Years, was divided into 10 sections with a prologue by Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
The committee’s scan of the album showed material ranging from explicit drawings and nude sketches to photos of animals engaged in sexual acts. Some illustrations were credited to Epstein’s “girlfriends", depicted giving massages beside a pool.
Notably, the book also contained contributions from figures including former President Bill Clinton, billionaire investor Leon Black, Harvard law professor and Trump ally Alan Dershowitz, UK diplomat Peter Mandelson (now ambassador to Washington), and retail magnate Les Wexner.
Ongoing denials and lawsuits
Trump has repeatedly disavowed the note, alleging, “These are not my words, not the way I talk.” He has filed a $10 billion defamation suit against The Wall Street Journal reporters, Dow Jones, and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, asserting their July reporting was false. Dow Jones has stood by its work, with a spokeswoman stating, “We have full confidence in the rigor and accuracy of our reporting.”
The release follows months of wrangling over whether Epstein-related files would ever be disclosed. Trump himself has alternately dismissed them as a “Democrat hoax” while hinting they might exist.
The oversight committee, under both Republican and Democratic leadership, continues to review records tied to Epstein’s network.
Epstein, who cultivated relationships with powerful political and business figures for decades, reportedly died by suicide in federal prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
