Trump sent Jeffrey Epstein 'bawdy' 50th birthday letter: WSJ

A "bawdy" missive to Jeffrey Epstein bearing President Donald Trump's signature was included successful an medium of letters Epstein received for his 50th day successful 2003, The Wall Street Journal reported connected Thursday evening, citing documents reviewed by the newspaper.

The letter, which the Journal said Trump sent astatine the petition of Epstein's person Ghislaine Maxwell, would person been written 16 years earlier the Justice Department charged the now-dead Epstein with kid enactment trafficking successful 2019, during Trump's archetypal word successful office.

The missive, which Trump denied having written, came to airy arsenic the president angrily tries to tamp down increasing disapproval of the determination by Attorney General Pam Bondi not to merchandise much grounds the Justice Department obtained during its probe of Epstein.

It was unclear whether the day medium was among the Epstein documents precocious reviewed by the Justice Department. CNBC has requested remark from the Justice Department and the White House astir the medium and the letter.

According to the Journal, the missive "contains respective lines of typewritten substance framed by the outline of a bare woman, which appears to beryllium hand-drawn with a dense marker."

"A brace of tiny arcs denotes the woman's breasts, and the aboriginal president's signature is simply a squiggly 'Donald' beneath her waist, mimicking pubic hair," the Journal's Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo reported.

"The missive concludes: 'Happy Birthday — and whitethorn each time beryllium different fantastic secret,'" they wrote.

The Journal said that it was not wide "how the missive with Trump's signature was prepared."

"Inside the outline of the bare pistillate was a typewritten enactment styled arsenic an imaginary speech betwixt Trump and Epstein, written successful the 3rd person," the insubstantial reported.

A leather-bound medium publication containing Trump's day letter, arsenic good arsenic letters to Epstein from the lawyer Alan Dershowitz and billionaire Les Wexner, was among the documents "examined by Justice Department officials who investigated Epstein and Maxwell years ago," the paper reported, citing radical who person reviewed the pages.

Trump denied penning the missive oregon drafting the photograph during an interrogation connected Tuesday, according to the newspaper.

"This is not me. This is simply a fake thing. It's a fake Wall Street Journal story," helium said. "I ne'er wrote a representation successful my life. I don't gully pictures of women," helium said. "It's not my language. It's not my words."

The insubstantial said that Trump told the Journal that if it published an nonfiction astir the letter, "I'm gonna writer The Wall Street Journal conscionable similar I sued everyone else."

After the Journal's communicative was published, Vice President JD Vance successful a station connected the societal media tract X, wrote, "Forgive my connection but this communicative is implicit and utter bulls---."

"The WSJ should beryllium ashamed for publishing it," Vance wrote successful the tweet. "Where is this letter? Would you beryllium shocked to larn they ne'er showed it to america earlier publishing it? Does anyone honestly judge this sounds similar Donald Trump?"

The Journal's nonfiction was published a time aft the Justice Department fired Maurene Comey, a apical authoritative successful the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office, who had been portion of the teams that prosecuted Epstein and Maxwell. Comey is the girl of Trump's long-time nemesis James Comey, whom Trump fired arsenic FBI manager successful 2017.

Trump has said that helium ended his relationship with Epstein earlier the wealth manager pleaded blameworthy to a enactment transgression involving a insignificant successful Florida authorities tribunal successful 2008.

Epstein, past 66, died successful August 2019 successful a Manhattan national jail, a period aft his apprehension connected kid enactment trafficking charges. His decease was ruled a suicide.

Maxwell was convicted astatine proceedings successful Manhattan national tribunal of aggregate crimes related to procuring underage girls to beryllium sexually abused by Epstein. In 2022, she received a 20-year situation sentence.