After the Wall Street Journal reported in July that Donald Trump sent and signed a "bawdy" 50th birthday letter to celebrate infamous sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein in 2003, the president moved quickly to file a $20 billion defamation lawsuit that called the letter in question both "nonexistent" and a "fake." On Monday, the House Oversight Committee released photo evidence of the so-called Epstein "birthday book," which it received from Epstein's estate in response to a subpoena — and the document dump included the apparent Trump missive, among many other letters, a number of them lewd.

Though the White House has said Trump will "aggressively" continue "litigation," a leading defamation law expert tells Law&Crime that the development was actually "a stunning blow" for Trump's claims and

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