White House welcomes pros to examine Trump card to Jeffrey Epstein to prove it's a fake Joey Garrison and Josh Meyer, USA TODAY September 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM 2 WASHINGTON ― The White House said Sept.
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Joey Garrison and Josh Meyer, USA TODAY September 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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WASHINGTON ― The White House said Sept. 9 it welcomed allowing a professional handwriting expert to review the signature attached to a note and lewd drawing in disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's birthday book to prove it didn't come from President Donald Trump.
"Sure, we would support that," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a briefing with reporters. "The president did not write this letter. He did not sign this letter."
Leavitt said she's already seen several forensic analyses of the signatures that show this was "absolutely not the president's authentic signature."
One former FBI forensic handwriting analyst told USA TODAY that an examination of Trump's alleged signature on the birthday card by a qualified professional forensic document examiner could prove conclusively that it's his signature − or not − based on a variety of particular markers that are, in some cases, too small to easily detect by the naked eye.
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"You are basically doing a side-by-side comparison of a whole list of features, including the spacing, size and slant of the letters, the formation of the letters and connecting strokes, and the overall alignment," said Meredith DeKalb Miller, who served as a Supervisory Forensic Document Examiner with the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Va. from 1998 until 2007.
DeKalb Miller now runs her own consulting business and has analyzed hundreds of documents and testified in federal and state courts as a qualified expert about whether they are authentic or forgeries. "There have been lots of law cases where forensic handwriting has been admitted into court as evidence over 100 years, so there is a precedent," she said, in reference to a lawsuit Trump has filed against the Wall Street Journal over its coverage.
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Trump in June sued the Journal, the first news outlet to report on the letter on July 17, accusing the publication of defamation and seeking $10 billion in damages. The Journal has stood by its reporting, while the White House has continued to call the letter a fake.
'We have certain things in common, Jeffrey'
The 2003 book given to Epstein on his 50th birthday, which contains a letter Trump allegedly sent to Epstein, was among a slew of documents the House Oversight and Reform Committee released Sept. 8.
The note in question ‒ signed "Donald" in cursive writing, with no last name ‒ contains a drawing that depicts the outline of a naked woman along with a typed note that portrays a conversation between Trump and Epstein. "We have certain things in common, Jeffrey," the note says.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt gestures during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 9, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
"Happy Birthday – and may every day be another wonderful secret," the letter purportedly from Trump to Epstein also says.
The signature's most distinguishing featue is a long tail in the second "d" of Trump's name. Trump's signature has not included the tail in his official signings on executive orders, bills and other official White House documents from both his second and first terms.
However, an analysis from the New York Times revealed that several letters Trump wrote to New York City officials from 1987 to 2001 resembled the signature in the Epstein book, including having a long tail on the lowercase "d." Other Trump critics ‒ including attorney George Conway and liberal commentator Keith Olbermann ‒ have posted past letters they received from Trump that also resemble the signature.
DeKalb Miller declined to speculate on the authenticity of the letter, and whether the signature could be Trump's or a forgery.
She told USA TODAY that professional forensic document examiners use a "conclusion scale" with nine levels of probability, ranging from positive identification "all the way down to elimination, and there are various probabilities between those two extreme conclusions."
Various groups have spent decades perfecting and standardizing the techniques and technologies used to analyze handwriting, DeKalb Miller said, including the Expert Working Group for Human Factors in Handwriting Examination. That group is supported by the National Institute of Justice and the National Institute of Standards and Technology or NIST.
Forensic document examiners can be found in local, state, and federal crime laboratories, which also offer training to select individuals in the analysis, comparison, and evaluation of questioned documents, DeKalb Miller's website says.
Forensic document examiners work for the FBI, Secret Service, Internal Revenue Service, Postal Inspection Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Army Crime Lab and other agencies. Many of them go on to work in the private sector after leaving government.
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