Trump's alleged 2003 birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein: White House responds to handwriting authenticity questions. A graphologist claims the signature is genuine, contradicting White House statements and sparking debate over the legitimacy of the letter. Experts weigh in on the controversial signature's analysis, raising questions about Donald Trump's denial
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has claimed Trump didn’t sign the letter and said on Tuesday the administration is open to having a handwriting expert analyze the signature in question to determine its legitimacy.
“Sure, we would support that,” Leavitt said at Tuesday’s press briefing in response to a question about whether the White House would consider a professional review of the signature and sketch.
Leavitt then suggested three handwriting experts had already determined the signature to be fake. That, as Media Matters’ Matt Gertz pointed out, appears to be misstating a Daily Wire story on three AI research systems’ analysis of the letter’s contents — not the signature.
Meanwhile, one handwriting expert who actually has analyzed the signature reached a striking conclusion.
Graphologist Emma Bache told Sky News that the signature attributed to Trump on the Epstein message is “very much the signature he had in the 2000s. I can absolutely say it is Donald Trump’s.”
Bache described Trump’s John Hancock as “incredibly distinctive” and said he “also has a very long horizontal stroke at the end of his name — which funnily enough is saying to people ‘keep away’ — and it’s absolutely identical in pressure, in length and formation of about every single stroke (to his current official signature).”
Although Bache is convinced the signature on the Epstein birthday message is Trump’s, she also admits she’s “not surprised he would deny” that it’s his.
“He has an awful lot to lose, but it doesn’t affect my analysis of it,” she told Skye News.
Others who know Trump or have received letters from him, like George Conway, Keith Olbermann and Lawrence O’Donnell, also think it looks pretty close.
.@realDonaldTrump‘s letter to me, April 13, 2006: https://t.co/3VZ701ipYv pic.twitter.com/FTGHp2oOFH
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Sorry MAGA. That’s Trump’s signature.
Compare it to the one on his letter to me.
You would’ve been smarter (lol) to claim it was a copy or tracing or a xerox or stolen from my letter but no… you’re not smarter. pic.twitter.com/4hfSyIVpGg
“In the second week of January in 2016, I got my one and only note from Donald Trump,” O’Donnell said Monday night on MSNBC. “It was a handwritten note, and he signed it ‘Best wishes, Donald.’ Just the first name — just like the birthday letter. It was a very friendly note that I received from Donald.”
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