The Dumbocrats would have had this letter for years and would have weaponised it if it were true.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/23/politics/epstein-files-latest-drop-takeaways3. A much-discussed letter that the DOJ now says is ‘fake’
Aside from those references, the new document dump features an intriguing apparent reference to Trump.
Included is a letter — which the Justice Department now says is “FAKE” — signed by “J. Epstein” and addressed to another infamous convicted sex offender, disgraced ex-USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
“We shared one thing … our love and caring for young ladies and the hope they’d reach their full potential,” the letter says. “Our President also shares our love of young, nubile girls.”
The letter then includes another lewd apparent reference to Trump. (It doesn’t use the word Trump, but it’s from 2019, when Trump was serving as president.)
It then suggests that, unlike Trump, “we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair.”
Notably, the letter is postmarked three days after Epstein’s death in prison, which has been ruled a suicide. The author alludes to having “taken the ‘short route’ home,” and wishes Nassar, “Good luck!” The letter was marked as “return to sender.”
What to make of this? There are so many questions that are unanswered here.
DOJ said Tuesday afternoon the FBI had determined the letter was “FAKE,” in part because the writing didn’t appear to match Epstein’s. (An FBI document from 2020 indicates a handwriting analysis had been requested, but the documents released Tuesday don’t include the results.)
The DOJ statement also noted the letter was postmarked in Virginia, while Epstein had been held in New York; the return address listed the wrong jail; and it was processed three days after Epstein died.
Even if this letter were indeed from Epstein, it would just be a claim.
Earlier Tuesday, the DOJ didn’t invoke this letter specifically but broadly suggested the allegations raised against Trump – likely including the FBI tips mentioned above – weren’t true.
“Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election,” the DOJ said. “To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”
CNN has reached out to the White House about the latest batch of documents, including that letter.
But there are just too many unanswered questions about this letter to draw definitive conclusions.
At the very least, the new disclosures are the kinds of things Trump once indicated he worried would unnecessarily tarnish people.
Trump in a 2024 Fox News interview cautioned about “phony stuff” in the Epstein files that had the potential to “affect people’s lives.” He echoed that Monday night, warning that merely being in a picture with Epstein could ruin someone’s reputation.