President Donald Trump threatened to sue the Wall Street Journal over a report claiming he sent a sexually suggestive birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein, calling the story “fake” and denying any connection to the drawing allegedly bearing his signature.
The Journal reported Thursday that Trump wrote Epstein a birthday note in 2003 featuring typewritten text surrounded by a marker sketch of a naked woman.
The sketch, according to the report, includes arcs representing breasts and a signature written beneath the waist area resembling pubic hair. The letter, reviewed by the Journal, ends with the line: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
The note was allegedly part of a collection of “dozens” of birthday greetings compiled by Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
The letters were bound into a leather book and gifted to Epstein on his 50th birthday.
Trump denied writing or drawing anything of the sort, telling the Journal: “This is not me. This is a fake thing. It’s a fake Wall Street Journal story. I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women. It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”
He also said he planned legal action against the newspaper, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp: “I’m gonna sue The Wall Street Journal just like I sued everyone else,” he said.
The article comes amid renewed public interest in Epstein’s associations following a government conclusion last week that Epstein died by suicide in his Manhattan jail cell in 2019. Officials also stated the US government is not in possession of a “client list” linked to Epstein’s alleged trafficking network.
