President’s name appears as contributor in book celebrating notorious sex offender’s 50th birthday in 2003
The furore over Donald Trump’s ties with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein continued on Friday as new revelations about the pair’s relationship threatened to mire the president’s golfing trip to Scotland.
The US president’s name appeared on a contributor list for a book celebrating Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003, according to reporting from the New York Times, lending further weight to reports that Trump participated in the leather-bound collection of messages, drawings and accolades – despite denying that he contributed a signed and sexually suggestive note and drawing, as reported by the Wall Street Journal earlier this month.
Trump’s name is listed among Epstein’s friends and acquaintances who contributed birthday messages for the professionally bound book which reportedly had multiple volumes, the Times reported. The tome opens with a handwritten letter, also reviewed by the Times, from the disgraced financier’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for conspiring to sexually traffic children. Maxwell is due to have a second meeting with US deputy attorney general Todd Blanche in Florida, where she is serving her term in federal prison, on Friday.
