WASHINGTON — Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a sexually suggestive letter to Jeffrey Epstein on Monday purportedly signed by President Donald Trump, which he denies.
Trump claims he didn’t write the letter or create the drawing of a curvaceous woman that surrounds the letter. He also filed a $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal for a report on the alleged letter.
The letter was included as part of a 2003 album compiled for sex trafficker Epstein’s birthday. The president denies having anything to do with it.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee received a copy of the birthday album Monday as part of a batch of documents from Epstein’s estate.
The White House did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
This image posted Monday, Sept. 8, 2025, on the X account of the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee shows a suggestive birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein alluding to a “wonderful secret” and purportedly signed by President Donald Trump, who denies sending the note.
After the letter was released, White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich posted pictures on social media of Trump’s signature and tagged The Wall Street Journal’s parent corporation, News Corp., writing: “Time for @newscorp to open that checkbook, it’s not his signature. DEFAMATION!”
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“These are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don’t draw pictures,” Trump previously said.
The letter released by the committee looks exactly as described by the The Wall Street Journal in its report.
The letter bearing Trump’s name and signature includes text framed by a hand-drawn outline of what appears to be a curvaceous woman.
“A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret,” the letter says.
The letter’s disclosure comes amid a bipartisan push in Congress for the release of the so-called Epstein files amid years of speculation and conspiracy theories. Calls for the release of the records came from Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance before he was sworn into the country’s No. 2 position.
President Donald Trump speaks Monday at a hearing of the Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible in Washington.
Epstein, a wealthy and well-connected financier, killed himself in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial in 2019 on charges that said he sexually abused and trafficked dozens of underage girls. The case was brought more than a decade after he secretly cut a deal with federal prosecutors in Florida to dispose of nearly identical allegations.
Epstein was accused of paying underage girls hundreds of dollars in cash for massages and then molesting them.
Trump’s ties to Epstein are well-documented, though he said they had a falling out two decades ago.
