It took roughly a day before The New York Times debunked President Donald Trump’s argument denying he sent convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein a birthday card with a risqué doodle for his 50th birthday.
The Wall Street Journal recently posted a story claiming Trump has sent Epstein a tawdry birthday greeting with a hand-drawn element in 2003, suggesting the president had a closer relationship to Epstein than the president would like to admit. But Trump slammed the news as fabricated on social media.
“The Wall Street Journal printed a fake letter, supposedly to Epstein. These are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don’t draw pictures,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
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Only he does, and his images have sold for thousands of dollars, according to the Times.
“It takes me a few minutes to draw something, in my case, it’s usually a building or a cityscape of skyscrapers, and then sign my name, but it raises thousands of dollars to help the hungry in New York through the Capuchin Food Pantries Ministry,” Trump wrote in his 2008 book, ‘Trump Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges Into Success.’
The Times adds that after Trump was elected president, some of the drawings he put his signature to were auctioned off for thousands of dollars. They included copies of sketches of the New York skyline and other still images to which Trump has laid claim with his characteristic signature. One involves a “money tree” littering the ground with dollar bills.
This is not the first time Trump has undermined his claims with audio or photos, notes the Times, which then cited photos of him flushing documents down the toilet, and sexually aggressive comments caught by “Access Hollywood” that toppled denials against Trump’s predatory take towards women.
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Read the full New York Times report at this link.