President Donald Trump might want to be done talking about Jeffrey Epstein, but that doesn’t mean the issue is done with him.
“It’s not my signature, and it’s not the way I speak, and anybody that’s covered me for a long time, no, that’s not my language,” the president said Tuesday evening about a letter signed in his name for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003.
Trump has denied the letter’s legitimacy since the Wall Street Journal first reported on it in July. And he’s continued to try to downplay the Epstein issue after the House Oversight Committee released records, including the so-called birthday book, from the convicted sex offender’s estate earlier this week.
“I don’t comment on something that’s a dead issue,” Trump told NBC News in a brief phone interview earlier Tuesday. “I gave all comments to the staff. It’s a dead issue.”
But that the topic keeps coming up is in large part Trump’s own doing. Over and over again, he and his administration have prolonged the Epstein controversy by saying things that don’t add up, reversing themselves and otherwise seeding legitimate questions about their handling of the matter.
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