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 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 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 in opposition to the Wall Road Journal for its report that the birthday ebook contained a “bawdy” letter from Trump.
Dow Jones, the mother or father firm of the newspaper, in response to the lawsuit mentioned in a press release that it has “full confidence within the rigor and accuracy” of its reporting and “will vigorously defend in opposition to 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 employees Taylor Budowich mentioned “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 mentioned that Trump’s authorized crew will “proceed to aggressively pursue litigation” in opposition to the Wall Road 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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Vice President JD Vance posted a response to Leavitt’s assertion, saying the discharge of the paperwork was “one other pretend scandal” and calling it a “smear.”
“The Democrats do not care about Epstein. They don’t even care about his victims. That is why they had been silent about it for years. The one factor they care about is concocting one other pretend scandal like Russiagate to smear President Trump with lies,” Vance wrote. “Nobody is falling for this BS.”
The committee issued a subpoena in late August for info 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 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 told a top official for the Justice Department that Epstein requested her to coordinate contributions to his fiftieth birthday ebook, however mentioned she couldn’t recall if Trump, then a non-public citizen, was amongst those that responded, in response to 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 costs. She is at present serving a 20-year jail sentence for aiding and taking part in Epstein’s trafficking of underage ladies, which concerned a scheme to recruit younger ladies and ladies for massages of Epstein that turned sexual. Federal prosecutors in New York mentioned Maxwell helped Epstein recruit, groom and in the end abuse ladies 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 little one intercourse trafficking. He died in custody a month later, whereas awaiting trial. His loss of life 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, mentioned 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 problem he desires silenced,” Edwards informed ABC Information. “With immediately’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 Road Journal story and the White Home denials, Edwards had publicly referred to as on lawmakers in July to problem a subpoena to the property for the birthday ebook, telling ABC Information that “the apparent and simple option to receive the ebook” can be to get it from attorneys for Epstein’s property.
“It is Jeffrey Epstein’s fiftieth birthday ebook, and like all different related possessions, the property is clearly in possession of it,” Edwards informed 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 finest 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.
