House Oversight Panel Reveals Trump’s ‘Bawdy’ Birthday Note to Epstein

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Monday released an image of the letter Donald Trump reportedly sent to Jeffery Epstein for his 50th birthday, showing the outline of a naked woman inlaid with a short message that ends: “may every day be a wonderful secret.”

Epstein’s estate turned over the book, alongside a tranche of other documents, in compliance with an August subpoena from the Oversight panel. The Wall Street Journal first reported in July on the existence of a “bawdy” collection of birthday notes to Epstein from 2003. However, the Oversight panel’s investigation is the first time Congress has reviewed Trump’s message.

Oversight Committee Democrats posted the note, which depicts the outline of a naked woman, on X. As The Wall Street Journal described it, the “the signature was a squiggly ‘Donald’ below the waist, mimicking pubic hair.”

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich, however, claimed that the signature on the note does not align with Trump’s current signature.

“Time for @newscorp to open that checkbook, it’s not his signature,” Budowich posted on X, alongside a photo of a paper recently signed by the president. “DEFAMATION!”

When the newspaper first reported on the letter in July, the White House called it “a fake thing.” Trump also filed a lawsuit against Wall Street Journal reporters, executives, publisher Dow Jones and parent company News Corp, saying the letter was “nonexistent.”

Vice President JD Vance and Republican members of Congress defended the president at the time, saying that the contents of the letter did not sound like Trump’s typical tone. Vance called The Journal’s report “complete and utter bullshit.”

The letter comes nearly a week after Republican Rep. Thomas Massie introduced a discharge petition to force the Department of Justice to release all documents related to the convicted sex offender. While his petition remains two Republicans short of forcing a vote on the House floor, the Oversight Panel released a tranche of 33,000 DOJ documents last week.

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Robert Garcia, confirmed that the panel received the book and additional files in an X post Monday afternoon, adding that more details would be released “soon.”

“It’s time for the President to tell us the truth about what he knew and release all the Epstein files,” Garcia said in a statement. “The American people are demanding answers.”

Garcia said he expects to release additional findings to the public.

“No matter who you are, how powerful, wealthy, or well-connected you may be, if you are involved in the abuse of young women and girls, or are implicated in any of the files we receive,” he said, “you will be held accountable.”

An Oversight Committee aide said that the panel also obtained Epstein’s last will and testament, the September 24, 2007, non-prosecution agreement between the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida and the disgraced financier, entries from his address and contact books from Jan. 1, 1990, through Aug. 10, 2019, and information about Epstein’s known bank accounts.

“Committee staff will review these documents and make them public in the near future,” the aide said.