{"id":2483904,"date":"2025-09-08T22:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T02:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-calls-trump-birthday-letter-to-epstein-another-fake-scandal\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T22:23:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T02:23:37","slug":"vance-calls-trump-birthday-letter-to-epstein-another-fake-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-calls-trump-birthday-letter-to-epstein-another-fake-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance calls Trump birthday letter to Epstein &#8216;another fake scandal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvance-calls-trump-birthday-letter-to-epstein-another-fake-scandal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2483904&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article reports that Vice President JD Vance dismissed the authenticity of a photo showing an alleged birthday letter from former President Donald Trump to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The image was part of a so-called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-reports-trump-was-contributor-to-epstein-birthday-book-days-after-wsj-story-on-letter-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"NYT reports ... was contributor to Epstein birthday ... days after WSJ ... on ... - Washington Examiner\">birthday book<\/a>&#8221; compiled by Epstein&#8217;s associate Ghislaine Maxwell, which the House Oversight Committee recently received following a subpoena. Vance called the story a &#8220;fake scandal&#8221; designed by Democrats to smear Trump, asserting that they do not genuinely care about Epstein or his victims. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also stated that the story is false, emphasizing that Trump neither drew nor signed the letter and that his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johnny-depp-to-be-called-back-to-stand-today-as-explosive-trial-winds-down-report\/\" title=\"Johnny Depp To Be Called Back To Stand Today As Explosive Trial Winds Down: Report\">legal team plans<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tensions-reportedly-rise-between-sen-schumer-gov-cuomo\/\" title=\"Tensions reportedly rise between Sen. Schumer, Gov. Cuomo\">pursue litigation<\/a>. Senator Mike Lee supported suing the Wall Street Journal for defamation over the story. trump has repeatedly denied signing the letter,and defenders and critics continue to debate the authenticity of the signature. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Vance dismisses photo of Trump birthday letter to Epstein as &lsquo;another fake scandal&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2224655\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JD Vance<\/a> dismissed a photo of an alleged birthday letter from President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, doubting its authenticity.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hosue-oversight-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">House Oversight Committee<\/a> received a book of messages allegedly compiled by Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell on Monday in response to Chairman James Comer&rsquo;s (R-KY) subpoena from Aug. 25. The Wall Street Journal revealed a picture of Trump&rsquo;s alleged message from the so<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >-called birthday book<\/a>. The picture didn&rsquo;t win over Trump&rsquo;s team.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3794906\/trump-donates-family-bible-touts-right-to-prayer-public-schools\/\">Trump donates family Bible and touts right to school prayer at White House religious event<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3797271\/trump-federal-takeover-chicago-national-guard\/\">Trump intensifies war with Pritzker as Chicago awaits imminent decision on federal takeover<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3797135\/trump-sends-love-hope-charlotte-stabbing-victim\/\">Trump sends &#8216;love and hope&#8217; to family of Charlotte light rail stabbing victim<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;The Democrats don&rsquo;t care about Epstein. They don&rsquo;t even care about his victims. That&rsquo;s why they were silent about it for years. The only thing they care about is concocting another fake scandal like Russiagate to smear President Trump with lies,&rdquo; Vance said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No one is falling for this BS,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Democrats don&#8217;t care about Epstein. They don&rsquo;t even care about his victims. That&#8217;s why they were silent about it for years. The only thing they care about is concocting another fake scandal like Russiagate to smear President Trump with lies.<\/p>\n<p>No one is falling for this BS. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u3pHgBtQDf\">https:\/\/t.co\/u3pHgBtQDf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDVance\/status\/1965184711183290707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PressSec\/status\/1965146390348398627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> the story &ldquo;PROVES this entire &lsquo;Birthday Card&rsquo; story is false.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As I have said all along, it&rsquo;s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it. President Trump&rsquo;s legal team will continue to aggressively pursue litigation,&rdquo; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BasedMikeLee\/status\/1965183727044268223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voiced his approval<\/a> for suing the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> over the story, writing, &ldquo;Reckless disregard for the truth. Defamation liability is real.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Vance had first responded to reports about the so-called birthday book by asking for the outlet to show images, saying the outlet had refused to do so before it was published.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3797625\/jeffrey-epstein-50th-birthday-book-trump-note-house-oversight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JEFFREY EPSTEIN 50TH BIRTHDAY BOOK WITH TRUMP NOTE TURNED OVER TO HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Forgive my language, but this story is complete and utter bulls***. The WSJ should be ashamed for publishing it. Where is this letter? Would you be shocked to learn they never showed it to us before publishing it? Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump?&rdquo; he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jdvance\/status\/1945995384200806709?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s defenders and critics sparred over whether the signature resembled his own. Trump has repeatedly denied that he ever signed the letter.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vance calls Trump-Epstein birthday letter photo a fake scandal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2483905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25246817907047.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[62894,9006,62895,3634,15469],"class_list":["post-2483904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-birthday-letter","tag-epstein","tag-fake-scandal","tag-trump","tag-vance"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25246817907047.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483908,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483904\/revisions\/2483908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2483905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}