President Donald Trump is under fire once again after a lewd birthday letter allegedly bearing his signature and a photo making a lewd joke about him ‘buying’ a girl from Jeffrey Epstein were released.
Representatives of the late, disgraced financier turned over the images to Congress as part of the investigation into his crimes.
Democrats on the Oversight Committee then released the sketch on Monday, reigniting a controversy that has dogged the White House in recent months.
Later Monday, the same account posted a photo from the book of a Mar-a-Lago member with Epstein holding an oversized check, with a hand-written note captioning it.
‘NEW PAGE FROM EPSTEIN’S BIRTHDAY BOOK: Epstein and a longtime Mar-a-Lago member joking about selling a “fully depreciated” woman to Donald Trump for $22,500,’ the account wrote.
Trump previously called the birthday message ‘fake’ and filed a $10billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the message referring to a ‘wonderful secret’.
White House aides were quick to push back on the released image and threaten lawsuits over the allegations.
‘The latest piece published by the Wall Street Journal proves this entire “Birthday Card” story is false,’ Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on X. ‘As I have said all along, it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it.
President Donald Trump is under fire once again after a lewd birthday letter bearing his signature was released by Jeffrey Epstein’s estate
Donald Trump, his then-girlfriend Melania Knauss (now Trump), Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida on February 12, 2000
Later Monday, the same account posted a photo from the book of a Mar-a-Lago member with Epstein holding an oversized check, with a hand-written note captioning it
‘President Trump’s legal team will continue to aggressively pursue litigation,’ her statement continued, lambasting the reporter for publishing ‘fake news’ about the ‘Democrat Epstein Hoax!’
Trump has also decried the continued focus on the Epstein files as a ‘Democrat hoax,’ despite bipartisan concern about a government cover-up.
Trump suggests that the Democrats are the ones with the most to lose with the release of the files. The president has also complained that the Democrats did not release the documents while Joe Biden was in office.
But Rep. Robert Garcia, the Oversight Committee’s Democratic ranking member, has now hit out at the president, alleging he is ‘lying’.
In a statement to The Wall Street Journal on Monday, Garcia said: ‘President Trump called the Epstein investigation a hoax and claimed that his birthday note didn’t exist.
‘Now we know that Donald Trump was lying and is doing everything he can to cover up the truth. Enough of the games and lies, release the full files now.’
The famed birthday book is reportedly a compilation of messages collected by Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell for his 50th birthday.
‘A pal is a wonderful thing,’ the letter allegedly written by Trump states. ‘Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.’
Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump pose together at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in 1997
Trump and Epstein shown together in conversation
Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in Epstein’s crimes, reportedly asked her longtime boyfriend’s friends for ‘drawings, photos, or stories’ to mark his 50th birthday.
She collected and scanned the materials and bound them into an album she gave to Epstein for his birthday in 2003. Many big names wrote messages to Epstein for his birthday, according to multiple reporters who have allegedly viewed the binder.
Reports also indicate that the book contained a handwritten note from former President Bill Clinton, who had a social and professional relationship with Epstein in the 1990s and 2000s.
Attorney General Pam Bondi handed to the House Oversight Committee 33,000 pages of documents last month that were reviewed and released by the panel chaired by Rep. James Comer, R-KY, on September 2, 2025.
But Democrats claim that only 3 per cent of the documents they received included new information that was not already made public by Bondi’s DOJ.
The new details, they said, mostly consisted of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) flight logs of Epstein’s private jet travel in and out of the US between 2000 and 2014.
Comer also released portions of the letter the House Oversight Committee received from Epstein’s estate on Monday.
The lawyers for the late pedophile noted in their letter that they are not aware of the existence of a list of clients involved in sex, sex acts, or sex trafficking facilitated by Epstein.
Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) cries after coming out of a closed door meeting with Epstein victims at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 2, 2025
Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) speaks during a news conference regarding the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, on Capitol Hill, September 3, 2025
They also shared that the ‘Black Book’, thought to contain addresses and contacts related to Epstein and his network, is likely with the FBI.
‘The Estate does not possess the original “Black Book”, which may have been seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation during the searches of Epstein’s residences in 2019. We do not know the origin of the handwritten notes in the copy.’
It was thought that the new review of unredacted materials by the Oversight Committee staff might result in revealing names and information not previously released to the public.
Trump blasted the Epstein investigation last Friday, in a post on his Truth Social platform.
‘The confused and badly failing Democrat Party did nothing about Jeffrey Epstein while he was alive except befriend him, socialize with him, travel to his Island, and take his money!’ he wrote.
‘They knew everything there was to know about Epstein, but now, years after his death, they, out of nowhere, are seeming to show such love and heartfelt concern for his victims,’ he continued.
‘Does anybody really believe that?’
