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 e book,” which is alleged to comprise the letter that President Donald Trump allegedly signed for Epstein’s fiftieth birthday in 2003.
Rating Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia posted a photograph on X that Democrats say is the web page attributed to Trump.
Home Oversight Committee’s Rating Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia posted a photograph on X that Democrats say is the web page attributed to Trump in Jeffrey Epstein’s “birthday e book.” The White Home is denying that the picture shared by Democrats is the president’s signature.
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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 Avenue Journal for its report that the birthday e book contained a “bawdy” letter from Trump.
Dow Jones, the mother or father firm of the newspaper, in response to the lawsuit stated in a press release 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 submit on X, White Home deputy chief of employees 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 e book picture is Trump’s. She stated that Trump’s authorized staff will “proceed to aggressively pursue litigation” towards the Wall Avenue Journal.
Home Oversight Committee’s Rating Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia posted a photograph on X that Democrats say is the web page attributed to Trump in Jeffrey Epstein’s “birthday e book.” The White Home is denying that the picture shared by Democrats is the president’s signature.
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The committee issued a subpoena in late August for data from the property, which included a replica of the alleged birthday e book 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 informed a prime official for the Justice Division that Epstein requested her to coordinate contributions to his fiftieth birthday e book, however stated she couldn’t recall if Trump, then a personal citizen, was amongst those that responded, in response to a transcript of Maxwell’s interview final month with Deputy Lawyer Normal Todd Blanche.
Maxwell was convicted in 2021 by a federal jury on intercourse trafficking and different prices. She is at present serving a 20-year jail sentence for aiding and taking part in Epstein’s trafficking of underage women, which concerned a scheme to recruit younger ladies and women for massages of Epstein that turned sexual. Federal prosecutors in New York stated Maxwell helped Epstein recruit, groom and finally abuse women 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 baby 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 e book and the alleged letter from Trump, Brad Edwards, an legal professional for scores of Epstein survivors, stated that Trump’s “hypocrisy has been most irritating for the victims.”
“He informed the general public the Epstein story ought to ‘go away,’ but filed a $10 billion lawsuit that solely magnifies the very concern he desires silenced,” Edwards informed ABC Information. “With at the moment’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 Avenue Journal story and the White Home denials, Edwards had publicly known as on lawmakers in July to concern a subpoena to the property for the birthday e book, telling ABC Information that “the apparent and simple technique to get hold of the e book” could be to get it from legal professionals for Epstein’s property.
“It is Jeffrey Epstein’s fiftieth birthday e book, and like all different comparable possessions, the property is clearly in possession of it,” Edwards informed ABC Information in July. “Ask or subpoena the property or their legal professionals, and everybody will then have the e book and may transfer on, which is finest 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.
