The White House has supported a forensic examination of the signature under a letter to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who is allegedly coming from Donald Trump. “This is not my language. That is nonsense,” said President Trump on Tuesday (local time) and rejected the allegations. His spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt also emphasized that the president had neither written nor signed the letter. The government reacted to the fact that the Democrats had published the document more than 20 years old. Leavitt accused him of spreading a false report with the case to harm the president.
The chairman of the responsible investigation committee, the Republican James Comer, stood behind the president. He took him at his word, said comer, but concluded that his committee would examine the signature. His party colleague Thomas Massie, on the other hand, demanded clarification. “I’m not a forensic expert, but it looks like his signature,” said Massie.
The Epstein case is politically burdened by US President Donald Trump. Epstein was a wealthy financier and sex offender who was charged with minors for sex trade when he presumably committed suicide in 2019. He had not known himself guilty and the case was discontinued after his death. Trump knew Epstein privately in the 1990s and early 2000s. According to a survey by the Reuters news agency and the IPSOS institute, approval among Republican voters recently increased to Trump’s handling of the Epstein affair to 44 percent from 35 percent in July.
