WASHINGTON DC – President Donald Trump found himself in a familiar situation on Tuesday, following the release by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee of a lewd 50th birthday message purportedly sent by the President to his old friend Jeffrey Epstein.
In the six weeks since The Wall Street Journal first revealed the existence of the hand-drawn doodle outlining the shape of a naked woman, complete with comments that the two men share some kind of a “wonderful secret”, Trump and his top officials have denied the document existed and then insisted that even if the notorious “birthday book” contained a message from the president, it was not “authentic”.
Deny, deny, deny was the order of the day, with Vice President JD Vance demonstrating fealty to his boss by describing the Journal exclusive as “complete and utter bullshit”. Defamation lawsuits flew in the direction of the Journal, with its owner Rupert Murdoch and UK-born editor Emma Tucker also personally targeted for legal action by Trump’s attorneys.
Fast forward to this week, and the Epstein estate – subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee – delivered the “birthday book” to Capitol Hill on Monday.
An extract of the letter and drawing apparently made for Epstein by Trump (Photo: OversightDems/X via AP)Within hours, the White House was doubling down, insisting that the signature at the bottom of the drawing was a fake, even though it appears to align with a slew of privately signed personal notes sent by Trump to other recipients in the same period as the 2003 Epstein birthday celebration.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt took to social media on Monday to claim that Trump “did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it”.
She added: “President Trump’s legal team will continue to aggressively pursue litigation.”
On Monday evening, Eric Trump told right-leaning Newsmax TV that “I can tell you my father does not sketch out cartoon drawings”.
His comments were an echo of Trump’s initial claim that “I don’t draw pictures”, articulated back in July when news of the birthday message first surfaced.
Demonstrators carry signs in support of the victims of Epstein outside in Washington, DC on 3 September (Photo: Roberto Schmidt / AFP)Both assertions are undercut by the fact that Trump has previously said that he does indeed draw, and has donated some of his drawings to charities.
“It takes me a few minutes to draw something…and then sign my name….it raises thousands of dollars to help the hungry in New York”, he wrote in a 2008 book.
During his first term as president, one Trump sketch of the Manhattan skyline sold for $29,000 (£21,425) at a memorabilia sale hosted by an auction house in Los Angeles.
While Trump’s efforts to wave off the drawing are failing to land among his critics, his Make America Great Again supporters are repeatedly being told that the document is a Democrat-orchestrated fake.
Pro-Trump podcast host Charlie Kirk, who has previously warned the White House about the potential impact of the President’s past friendship with Epstein, asked his followers on X whether the signature looked “like the actual signature from the President.” He then wrote: “I don’t think so at all. Fake.”
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene at a press conference to discuss the Epstein Files Transparency bill (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/ Reuters)Podcaster Benny Johnson, one of several pro-Trump polemicists now seated in the White House briefing room, also dismissed the doodle.
“Is this really the best they could do?”, he asked his social media followers. “Trump has the most famous signature in the world. Time to sue them into oblivion,” he added.
But all the fulmination in the world will not alter the fact that Trump has a growing Epstein problem with some Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Nancy Mace of South Carolina and Thomas Massie of Kentucky are three Republicans in the House of Representatives demanding full transparency over Trump’s dealings with Epstein, and expressing sympathy for the convicted paedophile’s victims.
Faced with a raft of fresh questions about the “birthday book”, Trump may reach for another time-honoured tactic: distract, distract, distract.
In fact, there is every likelihood that the release of the doodle will only hasten the moment when he decides to deploy National Guard troops onto the streets of Chicago to deal with a purported crimewave there.
He could also authorise fresh efforts to energise his programme of mass deportations in cities all over the US, and make good on his pledge to expand the use of extra-judicial attacks on Venezuelan drug traffickers.
Anything that might divert the nation’s attention away from the drawing, and from unanswered questions about the extent of Trump’s ties with Epstein.
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