Donald Trump's Alleged 'Birthday Book' Message To Jeffrey Epstein Revealed

The House Oversight Committee has obtained the infamous 2003 “Birthday Book” containing a creepy message allegedly from President Donald Trump to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. 

“The Oversight Committee has secured the infamous ‘Birthday Book’ that contains a note from President Trump that he has said does not exist,” Representative Robert Garcia, the committee’s top Democrat, said in a statement. “It’s time for the President to tell us the truth about what he knew and release all the Epstein files. The American people are demanding answers.”

Democrats posted an image of the note, which includes a typewritten message inside a crude outline of a woman’s body. 

“Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret,” the message says. 

The Wall Street Journal first reported that the 2003 birthday note existed in July, describing it as “bawdy” with Trump’s signature “mimicking pubic hair.” The note imagines a mysterious dialogue between a “Donald” and a “Jeffrey” musing about how they “have certain things in common.” It was one of several letters compiled from Epstein’s friends at the time.

Trump furiously denied the story and sued the paper for $10 billion. 

“I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women,” Trump told the paper, despite several of his other sketches having sold at auction. 

The image revealed on Monday would seem to undermine Trump’s claim he didn’t write the letter, but the White House pivoted to suggesting the document is some sort of forgery. 

White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich claimed Monday the signature on the note doesn’t match Trump’s more recent signatures on official documents, though the signature does resemble several past instances of the president signing only his first name. 

“Time for @newscorp to open that checkbook, it’s not his signature,” Budowich wrote. “DEFAMATION!”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said it was “very clear” the president didn’t draw the picture, though she didn’t explain why it was so clear.  

“As I have said all along, it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it,” Leavitt said on X. “President Trump’s legal team will continue to aggressively pursue litigation.”

Not long before the note was allegedly written, Trump publicly praised Epstein. 

“He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life,” Trump told New York magazine in 2002. 

Trump was friends with Epstein for years until the two had a falling-out in 2004. Epstein was first arrested on state prostitution charges in 2006; he died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. He and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence, allegedly groomed and abused hundreds of young women, sometimes recruiting girls as young as 14 to work as masseuses. 

Epstein socialised with many rich and famous people besides Trump, and conspiracy theorists have speculated that the government is covering up evidence that could implicate others in Epstein’s crimes. 

The Trump administration has been battling right-wing backlash over its refusal to make the files on Epstein public after several top Trump officials had said they would do so. The president called the story a “hoax” last week, even as several of Epstein’s victims testified on Capitol Hill about their suffering. 

Epstein’s estate provided the birthday book to the Republican-led House Oversight Committee in response to a subpoena issued by committee chair Representative James Comer, a Trump ally who has nevertheless worked with Democrats on subpoenas related to the Epstein case.

“It’s appalling Democrats on the Oversight Committee are cherry-picking documents and politicising information received from the Epstein Estate today,” Comer said in a written statement, adding that Trump hasn’t been accused of wrongdoing. 

Democrats may have homed in on a single page in the birthday book, but the volume was the committee’s top demand in its subpoena. The committee posted the newly received material on its website, including the full birthday book and some other documents that were already public. 

The committee has also obtained and released some of the Justice Department’s files on Epstein, but Democrats have said the department can’t be trusted. 

Separately, a bipartisan group of House lawmakers led by Representative Thomas Massie is trying to force the House to vote on a bill that would require the Epstein files to be made public.