It was hard to miss the letter Donald Trump reportedly sent disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein for his 50th birthday — complete with a sketched outline of a naked woman — after the House Oversight Committee Democrats published a copy of the 2003 note to X on Monday afternoon.
The Democrats’ X account posted the document — in which Trump seemed to wish “may every day be a wonderful secret” to Epstein — and accrued 5.2 million views by early Monday evening. The White House and its MAGA allies were simultaneously posting to deny the veracity of the letter across multiple social media platforms. Even the pop culture social media account PopCrave picked it up, accruing hundreds of millions of views.
But the Republican lawmakers gathered on Capitol Hill, just hours later, claimed they were not among those millions of viewers.