US President Donald Trump assured yesterday that "the signature is not his" under an alleged lewd letter addressed to the scandalous financier Jeffrey Epstein, and made public this week by Democratic Party lawmakers as part of the scandal that has compromised the American president, reported Agence France-Presse, quoted by BTA.
The letter in question, dated 2003, whose authorship is attributed to Trump, was made public by Democratic lawmakers on Monday, as the Epstein affair, a wealthy New York financier who died in prison in 2019 before his trial for sex crimes, continues to ignite public debate in the United States.
"This is not my signature and it is not my way of expressing myself, anyone who follows me has long known that this is not my way of expressing myself. "This is absurd," Trump said in a brief statement to media representatives outside a restaurant in the US capital, Washington.
This is the first public reaction from the Republican leader since the letter became public.
It has a painted outline of a woman's bust and is an imaginary conversation between Trump and Epstein, who were both part of the New York elite at the time. Below the text is a signature that appears to be that of the US president.
"Happy birthday. "Let every day be another wonderful secret," the typed text concludes.
The White House earlier yesterday expressed support for bringing in handwriting experts to assess the authenticity of the signature attributed to Donald Trump.
"The President has one of the most famous signatures in the world, and he has for many years," White House spokeswoman Caroline Levitt said at a press conference.
"The President did not write this letter. He did not sign this letter," she repeated. "That's why his legal team has filed a lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, which in July revealed the existence of the letter.
Another American newspaper, the "New York Times," however, on Monday published several letters signed by Trump and dating from the late 1990s or early 2000s, whose signatures are strikingly similar to the one in the 2003 letter to Epstein.