This July, the Wall Street Journal reported that President Donald Trump was among several friends of Jeffrey Epstein who had contributed lewd letters and other contributions to a “birthday book” to celebrate Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2023. The Journal story at the time described the page Trump contributed, without publishing it.
“We have certain things in common, Jeffrey,” Trump said in the book, per the Journal. “Enigmas never age, have you noticed that? … Happy Birthday—and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
Trump denied the story and even sued the Journal, the reporters involved, and the newspaper’s owner, Rupert Murdoch. But last week, a Congressional committee got hold of the book, which had been in the possession of Epstein’s estate, and it was both posted online and covered extensively by the media. It was soon made clear that the Journal’s reporting about the contents of Trump’s page in the book was exactly right.
The White House, however, has continued to deny that Trump really wrote the letter attributed to him in the book, and this week, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a shocking claim: “The president did not write this letter; he did not sign this letter.”
Leavitt, per The Daily Beast, “would be willing to use a handwriting expert to prove that President Donald Trump did not sign a sexually suggestive letter to notorious child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.”
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Leavitt also claimed that the conservative publication The Daily Signal had performed an analysis of the signature and found it false, but it was actually The Daily Wire, and was performed not by a human expert but rather “three leading AI research systems.” And aside from that, it’s not clear why exactly the Epstein birthday book would include a letter from Trump that was fake.
Q: One of the other documents released contained a photo of Epstein holding an oversized check that was made out to him from the president, for $22,000 for a fully depreciated woman.
Leavitt: Did you see the signature on the check? It’s not Trump’s signature pic.twitter.com/1PeDxiuElb
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 9, 2025
Meanwhile, Sky News brought in an expert to show that there’s very little chance the signature is not Trump’s.
Sky News UK brought in a handwriting expert and guess what?
The chances this is not his signature are ‘minuscule’. So who do we believe. A pathological liar and his mouthpiece Karolyin’ Leavitt, or the expert?
My money is on the expert
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— 𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 (@politicsusa46) September 9, 2025
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