Trump’s Epstein letter and drawing from ‘birthday book’ released
In 1997, Florida posed together on the land of Mar-a-lego in Palm Beach, while the portrait of American financing Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump.
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House Democrats published a screenshot on Monday, a letter signed by President Donald Trump, who was included in a collection of grafrey Epstein, a fame sex criminal for the 50th birthday in 2003.
In the letter, he contains a speech between Trump and Epstein in a seemingly hand -drawn draft of a woman’s body.
Trump’s signature is located just below the hips of the drawing.
The letter can be seen for the first time public since its presence was first notified by Wall Street Journal in mid -July. Trump only refused to write the letter, but also filed a slander for the newspaper.
“Here is: Jeffrey Epstein’a Trump’s birthday grade for the democratic minority of the Assembly surveillance committee. in a shipment Reveal the letter.
CNBC asked a spokesman for Trump’s legal team. The White House did not respond immediately to CNBC’s request for comments.
Taylor Budowich, Deputy General Manager of White House, claimed in an x post Monday afternoon Epstein’s signature about the letter is not Trump. Budowich shared a number of pictures of the documents signed to argue that Trump’s 2003 signature was not a match.
However, a study of Trump’s signature over time reveals that it has developed significantly. A New York Times The 2016 report on Trump’s letters included a few more closely similar signatures in the Epstein letter.
Both the Democrats and the Republicans in the panel face the accusations of federal sex smuggling, while investigating the records of wealthy and well -linked financier Epstein, who killed him in prison in 2019.
Epstein’s ownership provided all the “Birthday Book” and other documents in response to a court Celme from the committee.
Epstein was Trump’s friend before, but in the mid -2000s he fell with him. Since Trump took office in January, Epstein has become a great responsibility for the White House, and his response received harsh criticisms from both the right and left.
Prepared a series of conspiracy theories in the campaign trail, Trump pointed out that Epstein would be open to publishing all unnamed criminal records known as “Epstein files”. However, after a trivial explanation, the Ministry of Justice said that nothing more in a note in July was not guaranteed and that some fans were not angry.
The screenshot, which was published in the afternoon on Monday, shows the letter exactly as described by Wall Street Journal, which reveals the existence of the “obscene” message on July 17th.
Trump refused to write that letter at that time, “These are not my words, not my way of speaking.”
The newspaper and the media filed a $ 10 billion insult against Mogul Rupert Murdoch.
After the letter was published in the afternoon on Monday, Robert Garcia from Democrat California, who ranked at the top of the surveillance panel, said that the document was Trump, “Included on a cover“In Epstein.
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– CNBCs Dan manganese He contributed to this report.
