The US House of Representatives Oversight Committee released on Monday a volume of records from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, including a birthday message sent from President Donald Trump.
Before the committee released the records it had obtained, including Epstein's will and entries from his address book, US House of Representatives Democrats posted a picture of a lewd birthday message bearing Trump’s signature.
Trump has repeatedly denied the card’s existence, and his attorneys have previously said that "no authentic letter or drawing exists."
The birthday card, which is framed by the outline of a naked woman, reads: “Happy Birthday - and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
A second post from the House Oversight Democrats showed an entry from Epstein's birthday book that also referenced Trump making another crude joke about a woman.
In it, a longtime Mar-a-Lago member, Joel Pashcow, is seen with Epstein and a posterboard-sized check for $22,500.
In the message below the picture, the caption reads: “Jeffrey showing early talents with money + women sells ‘fully depreciated’ [redacted name] to Donald Trump for $22,500.”
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The Wall Street Journal reported that in the picture, Pashcow had made a crude joke about an unnamed woman that Trump and Epstein allegedly both dated in the 1990s.
The unnamed woman’s lawyer said that she was never romantically involved with either Trump or Epstein. He also said that she never met Pashcow and called the image a “disgusting and deeply disturbing hoax.”
Sources close to Epstein told the WSJ that she was a source of tension between the two.
The WSJ initially revealed the birthday card’s existence in July. Trump sued the WSJ, two of its reporters, and its publisher in July, and has repeatedly denied the card’s existence.
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement, “ It’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it.”
Leavitt went on to call the WSJ report “FAKE NEWS to perpetuate the Democrat Epstein Hoax!”
Vice President JD Vance wrote on X/Twitter that this was “another fake scandal” meant to “smear President Trump with lies.”
“No one is falling for this BS,” he added.
In a statement, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer accused Democrats of "ignoring" the new information released
“It’s appalling Democrats on the Oversight Committee are cherry-picking documents and politicizing information received from the Epstein Estate today," Comer said.
“Oversight Committee Republicans are focused on running a thorough investigation to bring transparency and accountability for survivors of Epstein’s heinous crimes and the American people. President Trump is not accused of any wrongdoing, and Democrats are ignoring the new information the Committee received today.”
After the initial WSJ publication of the note in July, Trump wrote on social media: “These are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don’t draw pictures."
Trump has denounced the furor over his late friend, a disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, as "the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax" and urged his fellow Republicans, without success, to drop the issue.