"Donald Trump would prefer that his birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein did not exist. So when The Wall Street Journal reported on it in July, he and his allies insisted it's fake for a variety of implausible reasons. Trump said, "I never wrote a picture in my life" and "I don't draw pictures," though we've seen many of his sketches over the years."
"It's easy to find examples of Trump's signature that look incredibly similar to the gross scrawl at the bottom of the nude-woman sketch. Trump's signature "has evolved over the years," as the New York Times noted."
Donald Trump and his allies denied authenticity of a birthday poem to Jeffrey Epstein, advancing implausible defenses such as denying he draws or uses certain words. After the House Oversight Committee released the poem image, the defense shifted to claiming the signature does not match. Aides and commentators posted examples of the president's signature to argue forgery. Multiple known signatures show similar first-name-only scrawls and an evolution in Trump's signature style. The New York Times published letters from 1987 through 2001 demonstrating first-name-only signatures that closely match the note. The available signature evidence undercuts the denial arguments.
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