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Hugo Lowell and Chris Stein and Joseph Gedeon in Washington

Trump calls release of suggestive note to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein a ‘dead issue’

four people pose for a photograph
Donald Trump, Melania Knauss (now Trump), Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2000. Photograph: Davidoff Studios Photography/Getty Images

White House officials on Tuesday doubled down on their assertion that a sexually suggestive letter carrying what appeared to be Donald Trump’s signature that was included in a birthday book for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had not been signed by the president.

The letter, and its drawing of a naked woman’s torso around an imagined conversation between Trump and Epstein, was part of a batch of documents released by the House oversight committee in response to a subpoena after its existence was first reported in July by the Wall Street Journal.

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