Portrait of American financier Jeffrey Epstein, left, and Donald Trump as they pose together at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1997.
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House Democrats on Monday released a screenshot of what appears to be a letter signed by President Donald Trump, which was included in a collection of notes sent to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003.
The letter features a conversation between Trump and Epstein inside an apparently hand-drawn outline of a woman’s torso.
Trump’s signature is located just below the hips of the drawing.
“HERE IT IS: We got Trump’s birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein that the President said doesn’t exist,” the X account for the House Oversight Committee’s Democratic minority wrote in a post revealing the letter.
CNBC has requested comment from a spokesman for Trump’s legal team. The White House did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
The screenshot released Monday afternoon appears reveals the letter exactly as it was described in a mid-July report from The Wall Street Journal, which first uncovered the existence of the “bawdy” message.
Trump furiously denied writing that letter at the time, claiming, “These are not my words, not the way I talk.”
He promptly filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the newspaper and media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Both Democrats and Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are investigating records related to Epstein, the wealthy and well-connected financier who killed himself in prison in 2019 while facing federal sex trafficking charges.
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— CNBC’s Dan Mangan contributed to this report.
