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The White House on Tuesday said it would like to have handwriting experts review Trump’s signature to see if it is consistent with the one on the alleged birthday card he wrote to Jeffrey Epstein.
“We would support that,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, adding that “The president did not write the letter. He did not sign this letter.”
Leavitt further said Trump’s legal team plans to continue a lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, which previously published the letter Trump allegedly wrote to Epstein.
Leavitt said that the president’s legal team would continue “aggressively pursuing litigation against the Wall Street Journal.”
Trump and the White House had claimed the letter didn’t exist, but on Monday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released it to Congress.
The letter was included as part of a 50th birthday album compiled in 2003 for Epstein, a wealthy and well-connected financier who was once a friend of Trump’s.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee received a copy of the birthday album on Monday as part of a batch of documents from Epstein’s estate. The letter looks exactly as described by The Wall Street Journal in its report.
The letter bearing Trump’s name and what appears to be his signature includes text framed by a hand-drawn outline of a curvaceous woman. “A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret,” the letter says.
The release of the drawing comes as the president has, for months, faced increasing pressure to force more disclosure in the case of Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
It also once again puts a spotlight on Trump’s former friendship with Epstein, which the president has said ended two decades ago after a falling-out. Trump said recently that he cut ties with Epstein because he “stole” young women — including Virginia Giuffre, who was among Epstein’s most well-known sex trafficking accusers — who worked for the spa at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
On Tuesday, Trump once again tried to play it down by calling the letter a “dead issue.”
Epstein was accused of paying underage girls hundreds of dollars in cash for massages and then molesting them, while Maxwell was convicted of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by him.
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