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 claimed to include the letter that President Donald Trump allegedly signed for Epstein’s fiftieth birthday in 2003.
Rating Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia posted a photo 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 ebook.” 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 ebook contained a “bawdy” letter from Trump.
Dow Jones, the dad or mum 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 post 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 crew 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 ebook.” 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 ebook compiled for the disgraced financier’s fiftieth birthday. The committee had requested a supply of the paperwork — which incorporates banking and monetary data, 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 told a top official for the Justice Department 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 prices. She is at the moment serving a 20-year jail sentence for aiding and collaborating in Epstein’s trafficking of underage women, which concerned a scheme to recruit younger girls 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 youngster intercourse trafficking. He died in custody a month later, whereas awaiting trial. His demise was dominated a suicide by hanging.
In response to the developments surrounding the birthday ebook 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 advised the general public the Epstein story ought to ‘go away,’ but filed a $10 billion lawsuit that solely magnifies the very concern he needs silenced,” Edwards advised ABC Information. “With at present’s launch, the least he might 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 ebook, telling ABC Information that “the plain and straightforward technique to receive the ebook” could be to get it from attorneys for Epstein’s property.
“It is Jeffrey Epstein’s fiftieth birthday ebook, and like all different comparable possessions, the property is clearly in possession of it,” Edwards advised ABC Information in July. “Ask or subpoena the property or their attorneys, and everybody will then have the ebook and might transfer on, which is greatest for the victims.”
Final week, the Home Oversight Committee released tens of thousands of pages of documents related to Epstein, a lot of which was already publicly recognized.
