Karoline Leavitt is standing firm against the growing controversy over Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous “birthday card,” but the documents that surfaced are raising more questions than her denial can quiet.
The White House Press Secretary took to X insisting the Wall Street Journal’s reporting on Trump’s alleged involvement in Epstein’s 50th birthday album is completely false. Leavitt called the story “fake news” and claimed it was just another attempt to push what she described as the “Democrat Epstein Hoax.” She also accused reporter Joe Palazzolo of deliberately reaching out for comment at the same moment the article was published, saying the Trump team was given no time to respond.
But the receipts are out, and they’re hard to ignore. In 2003, Ghislaine Maxwell put together a leather-bound birthday album for Epstein filled with greetings from well-known friends and associates. That very album has today resurfaced after the Epstein estate was forced to hand it over to the House Oversight Committee under subpoena. Once in Congress’s hands, lawmakers released pages to the public, and that’s where the controversy exploded.
Inside the album are several bizarre and disturbing entries, including one with a typewritten exchange between “Donald” and “Jeffrey” printed over the outline of a naked female body. The dialogue ends with, “Happy Birthday – and may every day be another wonderful secret,” signed “Donald J. Trump.” The album also contains illustrations of women in provocative poses, a drawing of an airplane, a cake, balloons, and poems mocking Epstein’s behavior. One passage calls him “rude, crude and lewd” while another says he “avoided the penitentiary” despite being “up to no good whenever he could.” These aren’t just vague references. The pages have Trump’s name and a signature that looks like his, which makes it difficult to write the whole thing off as a fabrication.
Leavitt and Trump’s legal team insist none of this came from him, arguing that he never wrote, signed, or drew anything in the album. They’ve taken it a step further by filing a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and News Corp, claiming the outlet ran with false information without proper verification. Still, the fact that Congress received the birthday book directly from Epstein’s estate through a legal order and then released it publicly has only intensified scrutiny.
For years, Epstein’s connections to wealthy and powerful figures have remained a source of controversy, and this birthday card has added fresh fuel to the fire. Whether Trump’s contribution is authentic or forged is today a matter for the courts, but the reality is the album exists, the contents are public, and the signature at the bottom of the page is not going unnoticed.
At this point, the question is less about whether the card was real—it came from Epstein’s own estate files—and more about whether Trump himself was behind the words and drawings or whether his name was attached without his knowledge. Either way, the documents themselves are undeniable, and Leavitt’s dismissal hasn’t stopped people from taking a long, hard look at what was inside Epstein’s 50th birthday book.
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