US President Donald Trump has denied sending Jeffrey Epstein a birthday card amid reports that he did so for the alleged sex offender’s 50th birthday in 2003.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump said that he had never written a picture in his life and does not draw pictures of women, as it is not his ‘language’.
“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,” Trump said in an interview conducted on Tuesday.
The Republican even threatened to sue the Wall Street Journal during the interview with the publication before the report on his alleged birthday gift to Epstein was published.
“I’m gonna sue The Wall Street Journal just like I sued everyone else,” he said.
According to the Wall Street Journal report, Ghislaine Maxwell prepared a special gift to mark Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday: a birthday album, which included letters from his family and friends, including Donald Trump.
The letter bearing Trump’s name contains several lines of typewritten text, allegedly framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to have been hand-drawn with a heavy marker, the report said.
{{/usCountry}}The letter bearing Trump’s name contains several lines of typewritten text, allegedly framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to have been hand-drawn with a heavy marker, the report said.
{{/usCountry}}The letter concludes: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret”. It is said to have been signed ‘Donald’.
Elon Musk reacts to the alleged Donald Trump letter to Jeffrey Epstein
Elon Musk, who had a public falling out with Donald Trump in late May and early June, defended the US President on the alleged letter to Jeffrey Epstein.
Reacting to the reported letter, Musk wrote on his social media platform X that it sounded ‘bogus’.
“Yeah, the letter sounds bogus,” the Tesla CEO wrote.
Musk had claimed during his fallout with Trump that the Republican featured in the so-called ‘Epstein Files’ that documented the alleged sex offender's crimes. Trump has been under pressure to release those files in recent days, even from his own base. He recently passed that buck to attorney general Pam Bondi.