Odaily Planet Daily reported that on September 8, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives released a screenshot showing a letter suspected to be signed by former President Donald Trump. The content was a page from the "birthday book" dedicated to Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday in 2003.

The content of the letter is highly controversial: a hand-drawn outline of a female torso is interspersed with a conversation between Trump and Epstein, and Trump's signature appears below the drawing's buttocks.

Trump had previously denied the existence of the letter and sued the Wall Street Journal in July for $10 billion over its reporting.

Although Trump's team claimed that the signature was forged and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Budowich released a comparison chart to try to prove that the signature did not match, the New York Times had recorded a Trump signature style that was highly similar to the signature on the letter in a report as early as 2016.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted on X: "The release of this painting proves that the entire 'birthday card' incident is false." She emphasized that Trump "neither signed nor drew" and said the legal team will continue to take action.