The letter bearing Trump's name featured several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman.

President Trump on Thursday vowed to sue the Wall Street Journal over an article detailing a birthday letter the outlet said he sent to Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted sex offender.

Police seized phone message pads from Epstein's Palm Beach mansion in 2005. Two messages were from Donald Trump.

Donald Trump denounces the Wall Street Journal's Epstein article as false, claiming it misrepresents his past interactions with the notorious paedophile.

More ties between Trump and Epstein have emerged over the years. Records released in 2019 revealed that Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s accusers, testified that Maxwell recruited her for the sex trafficking ring while she was working at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida estate.

Donald Trump said on Thursday he had directed his attorney general, Pam Bondi, to seek the release of grand jury testimony related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking case as he sought to tamp down controversy over a story that he allegedly contributed a sketch of a naked woman to Epstein’s 50th birthday album.

Trump dismissed the uproar as the “Jeffrey Epstein Hoax” and labeled critics “weaklings” in a Truth Social post last week.Epstein died by what the DOJ says was a suicide in a Manhattan jail in 2019 while facing federal sex-trafficking charges.

President Trump's base is erupting in turmoil over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case files. Trump took to social media this weekend in an attempt to calm tensions and made a detailed plea to his base to leave the Epstein matter in the past.