GOP lawmaker ducks Trump’s Epstein letter seconds after claiming he’d 'love to see it'
U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) shares a fist bump with Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) at a news conference with a bipartisan group of House members to say they are prepared to force a vote on legislation to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 3, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Daily Beast reports a MAGA lawmaker who claimed he would “love” to see the suggestive letter President Donald Trump allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein recanted when a reporter offered him the copy seconds later.
The White House is beset by the damning image of Trump’s emblematic signature scrawled beneath the intimate area of what looks like a crudely-drawn woman. The letter was formerly in the possession of the estate of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein before it was requisitioned by the House Oversight Committee.
Trump had denied the existence of the letter and even sued the Wall Street Journal for posting a story reporting the existence of the Epstein birthday card — all the way up until Oversight Committee Democrats released the actual letter to the public.
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“I’ve not [seen the document], but I would love to see it matched with his handwriting,” U.S. Rep Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) told CNN’s Manu Raju on Capitol Hill.
Daily Beast reports Raju apparently had the document on hand, because he offered Burlison the chance to see it for himself.
“Here’s the letter if you want a look,” Raju told him.
“Yeah, I don’t. I don’t want to see it,” said Burlison, a member of the House Freedom Caucus.
Burlison is not the only Trump-aligned Republican fleeing the sight of what looks to be Trump’s signature on the sexually-suggestive birthday card.
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“The president said he did not sign it, so I take the president at his word,” said U.S. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.).
“Anybody can do a signature. We’ve seen the autopen used quite a bit with the Biden administration,” said Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.). " ... I just don’t buy it.”
Former Biden staffer Jesse Lee said nearly the entire Republican Party is trying to provide cover for the president. "Trump’s culture of corruption has swallowed them all whole, and they didn’t even put up a fight,” said Lee. “Pigs in slop. Just complete betrayal of Epstein’s victims that they used as campaign props for conspiracy theory attacks on Dems year after year."
Read the Daily Beast report at this link.
