WH Strongly Denies Signature On ‘Leaked’ Epstein Letter Is By Trump

The White House is forcefully pushing back against a newly circulated letter that Democrats claim was written by President Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, calling the document a forgery designed to smear the president ahead of the 2026 elections.

On Monday, House Democrats on the Oversight Committee released an image of the supposed letter — a crude sketch of a nude woman with a brief note ending, “may every day be a wonderful secret.” The committee said the document was turned over by Epstein’s estate along with financial and legal records.

But White House officials are adamant: the letter is fake.

“The latest piece published by the Wall Street Journal PROVES this entire ‘Birthday Card’ story is false,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted on X. “As I have said all along, it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it. President Trump’s legal team will continue to aggressively pursue litigation.”

Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich also indicated the administration will seek damages against The Wall Street Journal and parent company News Corp.

“Time for @newscorp to open that checkbook, it’s not his signature. DEFAMATION!” Budowich wrote, posting side-by-side comparisons of the forged letter and Trump’s verified signatures.

Vice President JD Vance dismissed the entire episode as a calculated smear campaign.

“The Democrats don’t care about Epstein,” Vance said in a statement. “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.”

“No one is falling for this BS,” he added.

The controversy briefly escalated on Capitol Hill after Speaker Mike Johnson suggested Friday that President Trump’s connections to Epstein stemmed from his cooperation with federal authorities. But on Monday, Johnson clarified that his remarks had been imprecise.

“What I was referring to, in that long conversation, is what the victim’s attorney said,” Johnson told CNN’s Manu Raju. “More than a decade ago, President Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago, and he was one of the only prominent people … to call law enforcement and tell them to go after this guy.”

Asked directly whether Trump ever wore a wire in meetings with Epstein, Johnson flatly replied: “I have no information on that whatsoever.”

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is suing Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal over the story, calling it “false, malicious, and defamatory.”

Johnson reiterated last week that the administration supports “full transparency” in the Epstein case — but transparency aimed at exposing Epstein’s network of enablers, not indulging partisan fabrications.

“We want full transparency. We want everybody who is involved in any way with the Epstein evils — let’s call it what it was — to be brought to justice as quickly as possible. We want the full weight of the law on their heads,” Johnson told CBS’s Major Garrett.

The White House maintains that Democrats, unable to beat President Trump on policy or results, are resorting once again to politically motivated hoaxes.