In July 2025, the US President entered into a public conflict with The Wall Street Journal. The media wrote that at one time the politician sent a sloping letter to the financier who later detained on charges of sexual exploitation of minors. In posts on this subject, some Telegram channels brought, as claimed, a photograph of this letter. We checked the authenticity of this image.
On July 19, it became known that US President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal. Two days earlier, the publication reported that in the early 2000s the future head of state sent an unusual congratulation on his birthday to the financier Jeffrey Epstein-a letter with a drawing of a naked woman. News about the lawsuit Telegram channels illustrated the alleged photograph of this letter. So did the channels "The ax live"(704,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Putin in Telegram"(132 000),"Sheikh Tamir"(113,000),"Bullet"(72 000),"From the scene"(46,000) and others.
Epstein was detained in 2019 by charges In human trafficking with the aim of sexualized exploitation. A month after the arrest, he died in his cell - according to official figures, the financier committed suicide. In 2024, during his election campaign, Trump repeatedly He promised Make all the documents in the Epstein case, including the circumstances of his death and about his clients. After the inauguration of Trump with the same promises performed High -ranking representatives of his administration. However, in July 2025, the Ministry of Justice of the United States and the FBI released A joint statement that was reported: they could not find evidence that the list of Epstein customers exists. Trump himself soon stated that there were talk about this list Inspirated His opponents from the Democratic Party.
July 17 The Wall Street Journal Published investigation, according to which in 2003 now Convicted Epstein’s accomplice Gisley Maxwell gave him an album on the 50th anniversary of indecent congratulations from the friends of the financier. One of these letters, claims the publication, was written by Trump. Two days before the publication of the material, his authors turned to the US President himself for a comment - he denied that he sent such a congratulation to Epstein and threatened The Wall Street Journal by the court. July 19 Trump reportedthat he filed a lawsuit about slander to the editorial office of the newspaper and to its owners and Requires They have compensation in the amount of at least $ 20 billion.
It was the news about Trump’s claim that was accompanied by a photograph of a letter in Telegram channels, which the politician allegedly sent Epstein more than 20 years ago. The photograph shows the album, on one of the pages of which a woman’s silhouette with an illegible handwritten text is drawn in the middle. In the genital area there is a signature - Donald.
However, in the material of The Wall Street Journal there is neither this photo nor other pictures with the Trump pattern - there is only its verbal description. It is reported that the congratulation that the future president sent Epstein looks like a text printed on a typewriter over the image of a naked female body, and Trump's signature is in the intimate zone of the silhouette. The text of the congratulation is the imaginary dialogue of Trump with Epstein, which ends with the phrase: "Happy birthday - let every day become another beautiful secret." This description does not coincide with the viral image, where the illegible (and much shorter) text is written, not printed.
Reverse search by photo in Google showed that this image for the first time Published On July 18, the German Bild tabloid in a note on Trump's reaction to the publication of The Wall Street Journal. The photo is accompanied by the signature: “The drawing may look something like this. The Wall Street Journal has not yet published a single photograph, but emphasizes that the editorial office was able to see the album and letter. Photo: Bild infographics created using AI. ”
July 20 at 11:14 pm Moscow time, this image Published Telegram channel "Bild in Russian", already talking about Trump's claim. However, unlike the original German -speaking note on the site, in this post there is no clarification that the picture was created by journalists themselves exclusively for illustrative purposes. After the publication of the Bild in Russian, the image massively spread through other Telegram channels as a genuine picture of the drawing from the investigation of The Wall Street Journal.
In the English -language segment of social networks (in particular, in X, Bluesky, Instagram And Threads) At least two more similar images became viral. In both pictures, the typewritten text retold in the investigation of The Wall Street Journal is clearly distinguished, and the silhouette of a naked woman is also drawn on top of it. They differ in that in the second photograph as a background, the company form The Trump Organization, the US President’s holding company, is used. The factor from Lead Stories came to the conclusion that Both of these Images They are not related to the original letter, and the author of one of the pictures directly called his work artistic reconstruction.
Thus, the image of a fault congratulation, which Trump allegedly sent Epstein more than 20 years ago, was generated by AI on the basis of his text description in the investigation of The Wall Street Journal. At the time of writing this analysis, the American newspaper itself did not release pictures of the letter.
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