Copy of Trump’s Alleged Birthday Doodle to Epstein Released by Congress

An image of an apparent birthday letter from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein has been publicly released by members of Congress, despite the president’s previous claims that it didn’t exist.

On Monday, Sept. 8, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee shared an image of a birthday drawing that was previously described by the outlet on July 17. The image was reportedly part of a birthday book assembled by Epstein’s friends when the financier turned 50 in 2003.

The book was released by lawyers for Epstein’s estate to the House Oversight Committee, which has been investigating the government’s management of evidence related to the disgraced sex offender.

As WSJ previously described, the image features “several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts, and the future president’s signature is a squiggly ‘Donald’ below her waist.”

The image also features an imagined conversation between Trump and Epstein. In the fictional exchange, Trump says, “We have certain things in common, Jeffrey.” Epstein replies, “Yes, we do, come to think of it.”

“Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?” Trump then asks Epstein, who answers, “As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you.”

“The letter concludes: ‘Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.’ ”

At the time of the WSJ report, Trump denied writing the letter or drawing the image.

“This is not me. This is a fake thing. It’s a fake Wall Street Journal story,” he told the outlet. “I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women… It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”

He then sued The Wall Street Journal and its owners, including Fox News co-founder Rupert Murdoch, for $10 billion, claiming defamation.

“We have just filed a POWERHOUSE Lawsuit against everyone involved in publishing the false, malicious, defamatory, FAKE NEWS ‘article’ in the useless ‘rag’ that is, The Wall Street Journal,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “I hope Rupert and his ‘friends’ are looking forward to the many hours of depositions and testimonies they will have to provide in this case.”

PEOPLE reached out to the White House for comment on Monday after the letter was made public.

Almost immediately after Trump’s initial denial, internet sleuths identified a major flaw in his statement, quickly latching on to the president’s claim that he “never wrote a picture in his life.”

Critics dug up a variety of well-documented Trump doodles. Multiple examples were found on auction sites, including a 2004 cityscape skyline that was listed and auctioned off at Sotheby’s, a sketch of the Empire State Building that sold for $16,000 at Julien’s Auctions, a 2005 rendition of the Manhattan skyline that went for $29,184 at Nate D. Sanders Auctions, and a drawing of a tree with money falling from it that sold for $8,500 at Leland Little.

All of the auctioned doodles appear to feature the president’s distinctive signature.

Trump even admitted to his prolific scribbling prowess in his 2010 book, Trump Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges Into Success.

“Each year, I donate an autographed doodle to the Doodle for Hunger auction at Tavern on the Green,” he wrote. “It’s a great event.”