Charlamagne claims Trump-Epstein letter was ‘planted’ for admin to ‘debunk’

Radio host Charlamagne Tha God on “The Breakfast Club” Tuesday said he believed the letter released on Monday that President Donald Trump allegedly wrote to deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was phony and “planted.”

Trump allegedly sent the suggestive letter to Epstein to include in his 50th birthday book in 2003; the book is part of the first tranche of documents from the Estate of Jeffrey Epstein, according to a House Oversight Committee aide. Charlamagne said on the show that he believed somebody who supported Trump “planted” the letter for the administration to “debunk.”

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“I don’t believe that painting, though, I’m going to be honest with you. That drawing … I think somebody down with Trump planted that,” Charlamagne said.

“Because once you debunk that and prove that it’s fake, then maybe people will start looking at everything else like it’s fake,” he added. “It just seems too damn silly to be real.”

The Wall Street Journal first reported in a July piece that Trump allegedly sent Epstein the letter. However, the president has refuted the reporting and filed a lawsuit over it against Rupert Murdoch, Dow Jones & Company Inc., News Corporation and the two reporters who authored it.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also disputed the alleged birthday letter in a Monday X post.

“[I]t’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it,” Leavitt wrote.

The letter has the outline of a naked woman and several lines of typewritten text. It concludes, “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret,” and is signed “Donald.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson claimed on Friday that Trump served as “an FBI informant” to help bring down Epstein. However, he backtracked on the claim.

“The Speaker is reiterating what the victims’ attorney said, which is that Donald Trump — who kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago — was the only one more than a decade ago willing to help prosecutors expose Epstein for being a disgusting child predator,” a statement from Johnson’s office read, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.

Republicans have also blocked Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie and Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna’s discharge petition, which would compel the government to release the Epstein files.

Moreover the House Oversight Committee published over 33,000 pages of Epstein-related documents on Sept. 2 after obtaining them from the Department of Justice.

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