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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Marina Dunbar , Hugo Lowell and Oliver Holmes

Release of sexually suggestive Epstein ‘birthday book’ piles pressure on Trump

Screenshot of birthday note
A screenshot of a birthday note allegedly written by Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein. Photograph: House oversight committee Democrats via X

The public release of 238-page scrapbook given to Jeffrey Epstein on his 50th birthday – featuring letters suggesting the sex offender’s lecherous exploits were an open secret – has inserted fresh energy into public calls for answers about the elite circles he mixed with.

One of the sexually suggestive letters appears to bear the signature of Donald Trump and is believed to be the same note the president had denied writing after reports of its existence were published earlier this year in the Wall Street Journal.

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