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It really shouldn’t be that big a deal.

Donald Trump was one of many friends solicited to send messages to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday. There’s a far more cautious one from Bill Clinton, too.

If the president had merely said "yeah, I sent it, we were joking back and forth, nothing to see here" – this was in 2003, before the child predator was charged with sexual abuse – nobody would have blinked. The birthday book was assembled by his then-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.

INSIDE EPSTEIN'S INFAMOUS 'BIRTHDAY BOOK': CLINTON'S NOTE, POOLSIDE CANDIDS AND BIZARRE ANIMAL PICS

Instead, he filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal for supposedly publishing inaccuracies in its report on the Trump birthday

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