US President Donald Trump has repeated his denial that he penned a lascivious birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein amid sustained scrutiny of his links to the convicted sex offender.
Speaking to reporters in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, Trump said the signature on the note to Epstein was not his.
“It’s not my signature, and it’s not the way I speak. And anybody that has covered me for a long time knows that’s not my language,” Trump said.
“It’s nonsense.”
Trump’s denial came after the White House said earlier that it would support a forensic analysis of the signature to prove it did not belong to the US president.
“The president did not write this letter. He did not sign this letter,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
The release of the note, contained in a 238-page sc