The GOP-led House Oversight Committee announced on Monday that it has acquired documents and communications from the Jeffrey Epstein estate, including the Epstein “birthday book,” which purportedly contains a letter that President Donald Trump allegedly signed for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003.
Ranking Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia posted a photo on X that Democrats say is the page attributed to Trump.
House Oversight Committee’s Ranking Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia shared a photo on X that Democrats claim shows a page attributed to Trump in Jeffrey Epstein’s “birthday book.” The White House, however, denies that the image shared is the president’s signature.
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Trump has called the letter a “fake” and denied writing it. He has also refuted its existence by filing a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal for reporting that the birthday book contained a “bawdy” letter from him.
In response to the lawsuit, Dow Jones, the parent company of the newspaper, expressed confidence in the “rigor and accuracy” of its reporting and affirmed its commitment to “vigorously defend against any lawsuit.”
The White House disputes the claim that the shared image is the president’s signature. White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich posted on X, saying, “Time for @newscorp to open that checkbook, it’s not his signature. DEFAMATION!”
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, also refuted the notion that the signature in the birthday book image is Trump’s. She affirmed that Trump’s legal team will “continue to aggressively pursue litigation” against the Wall Street Journal.
House Oversight Committee’s Ranking Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia posted a photo on X that Democrats say is the page attributed to Trump in Jeffrey Epstein’s “birthday book.” The White House is denying that the image shared by Democrats is the president’s signature.
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Vice President JD Vance posted a response to Leavitt’s statement, saying the release of the documents was “another fake scandal” and calling it a “smear.”
“The Democrats don’t care about Epstein. They don’t even care about his victims. That’s why they were silent about it for years. The only thing they care about is concocting another fake scandal like Russiagate to smear President Trump with lies,” Vance wrote. “No one is falling for this BS.”
The committee issued a subpoena in late August for information from the estate, which included a copy of the alleged birthday book compiled for the disgraced financier’s 50th birthday. The committee had requested a delivery of the documents — which includes banking and financial records, flights logs and calendars — on or before Sept. 8, 2025.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Representative James Comer of Kentucky at the US Capitol, in Washington, September 2, 2025.
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Epstein’s former associate Ghislaine Maxwell told a top official for the Justice Department that Epstein asked her to coordinate contributions to his 50th birthday book, but said she could not recall if Trump, then a private citizen, was among those who responded, according to a transcript of Maxwell’s interview last month with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Maxwell was convicted in 2021 by a federal jury on sex trafficking and other charges. She is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for aiding and participating in Epstein’s trafficking of underage girls, which involved a scheme to recruit young women and girls for massages of Epstein that turned sexual. Federal prosecutors in New York said Maxwell helped Epstein recruit, groom and ultimately abuse girls as young as 14. In the interview with the Justice Department official, Maxwell continued to profess her innocence.
Epstein was arrested in July 2019 and charged in a federal indictment with conspiracy and child sex trafficking. He died in custody a month later, while awaiting trial. His death was ruled a suicide by hanging.
In response to the developments surrounding the birthday book and the alleged letter from Trump, Brad Edwards, an attorney for scores of Epstein survivors, said that Trump’s “hypocrisy has been most frustrating for the victims.”
“He told the public the Epstein story should ‘go away,’ yet filed a $10 billion lawsuit that only magnifies the very issue he wants silenced,” Edwards told ABC News. “With today’s release, the least he could do is withdraw that lawsuit and publicly apologize to the journalists he attacked for reporting what seems to have now proved to be true.”
After the Wall Street Journal story and the White House denials, Edwards had publicly called on lawmakers in July to issue a subpoena to the estate for the birthday book, telling ABC News that “the obvious and easy way to obtain the book” would be to get it from lawyers for Epstein’s estate.
“It’s Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday book, and like all other similar possessions, the estate is obviously in possession of it,” Edwards told ABC News in July. “Ask or subpoena the estate or their lawyers, and everyone will then have the book and can move on, which is best for the victims.”
Last week, the House Oversight Committee released tens of thousands of pages of documents related to Epstein, much of which was already publicly known.
