The GOP-led Home Oversight Committee says it has obtained paperwork and communications from the Jeffrey Epstein property on Monday — together with the Epstein “birthday guide,” which is alleged to include the letter that President Donald Trump allegedly signed for Epstein’s fiftieth birthday in 2003.
After Democrats on the Oversight Committee made public the alleged letter from Trump and one different web page from Epstein’s fiftieth Brithday Guide, the Republican chairman of the committee, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., subsequently launched almost all of the paperwork supplied to the committee by the Epstein property, together with the birthday guide, Epstein’s final will and testomony from 2019 and another paperwork which might be already a part of the general public file.
This 238-page PDF doc of the birthday guide features a “prologue” that claims it was written by Ghislaine Maxwell. The contributors are divided into classes: Household, Brooklyn, Girlfriends (whose names are all redacted), Youngsters (names all redacted), Buddies, Science, Particular Assistants (all redacted) and Enterprise.
Home Oversight Committee’s Rating Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia posted a photograph on X that Democrats say is the web page attributed to Trump in Jeffrey Epstein’s “birthday guide.” The White Home is denying that the picture shared by Democrats is the president’s signature.
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Donald Trump is listed among the many contributors below the “Buddies” class within the desk of contents, which additionally consists of: Leon Black, Jean-Luc Brunel, Invoice Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, Henry Jarecki, George Mitchel (sic), Joel Pashcow, Lesley Wexner, Mort Zuckerman and others.
There’s a {photograph} of the guide’s binding that reads “The First Fifty Years.”
The guide additionally consists of dozens of pictures from Epstein’s youth, a replica of his beginning certificates, a Boy Scout’s commencement certification from 1963, a photograph of an 8-year-old Epstein enjoying the accordion on stage at a Bar Mitzvah and several other images of Epstein with varied girls, whose faces are redacted, aside from Ghislaine Maxwell.
Rating Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia posted a photograph on X that Democrats say is the web page attributed to Trump.
Trump has denied writing the letter — calling it “faux.” The president had additionally denied the existence of the letter, submitting a $10 billion defamation lawsuit towards the Wall Avenue Journal for its report that the birthday guide contained a “bawdy” letter from Trump.
Dow Jones, the mother or father firm of the newspaper, in response to the lawsuit stated in a press release that it has “full confidence within the rigor and accuracy” of its reporting and “will vigorously defend towards any lawsuit.”
The White Home is denying that the picture shared by Democrats is the president’s signature. In a publish on X, White Home deputy chief of employees Taylor Budowich stated “Time for @newscorp to open that checkbook, it isn’t his signature. DEFAMATION!”
White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt, in an official response, additionally denied the truth that the signature depicted within the birthday guide picture is Trump’s. She stated that Trump’s authorized workforce will “proceed to aggressively pursue litigation” towards the Wall Avenue Journal.
Home Oversight Committee’s Rating Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia posted a photograph on X that Democrats say is the web page attributed to Trump in Jeffrey Epstein’s “birthday guide.” The White Home is denying that the picture shared by Democrats is the president’s signature.
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Vice President JD Vance posted a response to Leavitt’s assertion, saying the discharge of the paperwork was “one other faux scandal” and calling it a “smear.”
“The Democrats do not care about Epstein. They don’t even care about his victims. That is why they had been silent about it for years. The one factor they care about is concocting one other faux scandal like Russiagate to smear President Trump with lies,” Vance wrote. “Nobody is falling for this BS.”
The committee issued a subpoena in late August for data from the property, which included a replica of the alleged birthday guide compiled for the disgraced financier’s fiftieth birthday. The committee had requested a supply of the paperwork — which incorporates banking and monetary data, flights logs and calendars — on or earlier than Sept. 8, 2025.
Home Oversight Committee Chairman Consultant James Comer of Kentucky on the US Capitol, in Washington, September 2, 2025.
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Epstein’s former affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell informed a prime official for the Justice Division that Epstein requested her to coordinate contributions to his fiftieth birthday guide, however stated she couldn’t recall if Trump, then a non-public citizen, was amongst those that responded, based on a transcript of Maxwell’s interview final month with Deputy Lawyer Common Todd Blanche.
Maxwell was convicted in 2021 by a federal jury on intercourse trafficking and different prices. She is presently serving a 20-year jail sentence for aiding and taking part in Epstein’s trafficking of underage ladies, which concerned a scheme to recruit younger girls and ladies for massages of Epstein that turned sexual. Federal prosecutors in New York stated Maxwell helped Epstein recruit, groom and in the end abuse ladies as younger as 14. Within the interview with the Justice Division official, Maxwell continued to profess her innocence.
Epstein was arrested in July 2019 and charged in a federal indictment with conspiracy and baby intercourse trafficking. He died in custody a month later, whereas awaiting trial. His dying was dominated a suicide by hanging.
In response to the developments surrounding the birthday guide and the alleged letter from Trump, Brad Edwards, an legal professional for scores of Epstein survivors, stated that Trump’s “hypocrisy has been most irritating for the victims.”
“He informed the general public the Epstein story ought to ‘go away,’ but filed a $10 billion lawsuit that solely magnifies the very concern he desires silenced,” Edwards informed ABC Information. “With right this moment’s launch, the least he may do is withdraw that lawsuit and publicly apologize to the journalists he attacked for reporting what appears to have now proved to be true.”
After the Wall Avenue Journal story and the White Home denials, Edwards had publicly referred to as on lawmakers in July to concern a subpoena to the property for the birthday guide, telling ABC Information that “the plain and simple option to acquire the guide” can be to get it from legal professionals for Epstein’s property.
“It is Jeffrey Epstein’s fiftieth birthday guide, and like all different comparable possessions, the property is clearly in possession of it,” Edwards informed ABC Information in July. “Ask or subpoena the property or their legal professionals, and everybody will then have the guide and may transfer on, which is greatest for the victims.”
Final week, the Home Oversight Committee launched tens of hundreds of pages of paperwork associated to Epstein, a lot of which was already publicly recognized.
