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 guide,” which is alleged 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 guide.” 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 “faux.” The president had additionally denied the existence of the letter, submitting a $10 billion defamation lawsuit towards the Wall Road Journal for its report that the birthday guide contained a “bawdy” letter from Trump.
Dow Jones, the guardian firm of the newspaper, in response to the lawsuit stated in an announcement 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 employees Taylor Budowich stated “Time for @newscorp to open that checkbook, it is not his signature. DEFAMATION!”
White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt, in an official response, additionally denied the truth that the signature depicted within the birthday guide picture is Trump’s. She stated that Trump’s authorized crew will “proceed to aggressively pursue litigation” towards 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 guide.” 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 faux 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 have been silent about it for years. The one factor they care about is concocting one other faux 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 duplicate of the alleged birthday guide 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 guide, however stated 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 Legal professional Normal Todd Blanche.
Maxwell was convicted in 2021 by a federal jury on intercourse trafficking and different costs. She is at the moment serving a 20-year jail sentence for aiding and taking part 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 little one intercourse trafficking. He died in custody a month later, whereas awaiting trial. His dying was dominated a suicide by hanging.
In response to the developments surrounding the birthday guide and the alleged letter from Trump, Brad Edwards, an lawyer for scores of Epstein survivors, stated 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 subject he desires silenced,” Edwards informed ABC Information. “With immediately’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 Road Journal story and the White Home denials, Edwards had publicly known as on lawmakers in July to subject a subpoena to the property for the birthday guide, telling ABC Information that “the apparent and straightforward solution to get hold of the guide” can be to get it from attorneys for Epstein’s property.
“It is Jeffrey Epstein’s fiftieth birthday guide, and like all different comparable 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 guide and may 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 identified.
