Overview

• Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee published a 2003 birthday-album page featuring a sketch, a sexually suggestive dialogue, and a signature attributed to Donald Trump.
• They also posted a separate image of Jeffrey Epstein with an oversized $22,500 check bearing Trump's name alongside text referencing the “sale” of a woman, which the White House rejects as inauthentic.
• Trump issued his first on-camera response since the release, saying the letter is “not my signature” and “not my way of speaking,” while calling the matter absurd.
• White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said Trump did not draw or sign the materials and signaled openness to expert handwriting analysis to contest the signatures.
• The Wall Street Journal previously reported the album was supplied to Congress by Epstein’s estate, and major outlets such as the New York Times reported similarities between the contested signature and Trump’s period handwriting.