Trump denies report he wrote Epstein lewd birthday notepublished at 11:26 British Summer Time
These latest developments come shortly after Trump said he would sue the Wall Street Journal over an article alleging that a “bawdy” birthday greeting bearing his name was sent to Epstein in 2003, before the late financier was charged with sex crimes.
The letter, which the newspaper claims was sent on Epstein’s 50th birthday, has been decried by Trump as a “fake”.
In a post, Trump says the newspaper and owner Rupert Murdoch “were warned directly” they would be sued if they printed the story, describing it as “false, malicious, and defamatory”.
According to the newspaper, a letter bearing Trump’s name “contained several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker”.
“Inside the outline of the naked woman was a typewritten note styled as an imaginary conversation between Trump and Epstein, written in the third person,” the paper reports.
The letter allegedly ends with the words: “A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday – and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
“These are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don’t draw pictures,” Trump said on social media in response to the story.
According to the WSJ, the letter was part of a compilation of birthday greetings that was put together by Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of helping Epstein to sex-traffic children and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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