President Donald Trump’s relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was thrust back into the spotlight Monday when Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released an image of a creepy message Trump allegedly wrote to Epstein in a book put together for the disgraced financier’s 50th birthday.
The Wall Street Journal first reported on the note in July. Trump responded to that report with a denial and a lawsuit.
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Last week, Trump again dismissed calls for the full release of files related to Epstein, calling the effort a “Democrat hoax” despite members of the Republican Party as well as some of Epstein’s victims pushing for transparency.
“They’re trying to get people to talk about something that’s totally irrelevant to the success that we’ve had as a nation since I’ve been president,” Trump said last week in the Oval Office.
