President Donald Trump swatted away a question from a reporter who pressed him on the emergence of a birthday message he allegedly sent to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump was reached for comment by NBC News on Tuesday morning after House Oversight Committee Democrats released Epstein’s 50th birthday book, compiled in 2003 by jailed Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell and supplied by the Epstein estate. The book includes a lewd drawing of a naked woman alongside a loving message telling the disgraced financier, “May every day be another wonderful secret,” apparently signed with the president’s distinctive, thick handwriting.

The 79-year-old, who had previously suggested the existence of the message was a “hoax,” refused to be drawn in further, telling NBC News by phone that the ongoing f

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