Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. – WSJ

It was Jeffrey Epstein s 50th birthday, and Ghislaine Maxwell was preparing a special gift to mark the occasion. She turned to Epstein s family and friends. One of them was Donald Trump.

Maxwell collected letters from Trump and dozens of Epstein s other associates for a 2003 birthday album, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. 

Pages from the leather-bound album assembled before Epstein was first arrested in 2006 are among the documents examined by Justice Department officials who investigated Epstein and Maxwell years ago, according to people who have reviewed the pages. It s unclear if any of the pages are part of the Trump administration s recent review.

The president s past relationship with Epstein is at a sensitive moment. The Justice Department documents, the so-called Epstein files, and who or what is in them are at the center of a storm consuming the Trump administration. On Wednesday, after angry comments about how the files are a hoax created by Democrats, President Trump lashed out at his own supporters for refusing to let the matter go.

The letter bearing Trump s name, which was reviewed by the Journal, is bawdy like others in the album. It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the woman s breasts, and the future president s signature is a squiggly Donald below her waist, mimicking pubic hair.

The letter concludes: Happy Birthday and may every day be another wonderful secret.

In an interview with the Journal on Tuesday evening, Trump denied writing the letter or drawing the picture. This is not me. This is a fake thing. It s a fake Wall Street Journal story, he said.

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