US President Donald Trump on Tuesday reiterated his denial that he had authored a lewd birthday note to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, after the alleged letter was released to the public a day earlier.

The Wall Street Journal reported in July on the existence of the alleged 2003 letter, prompting a $10 billion defamation suit from the Republican president against the newspaper and its owners.

The letter, a type-written message inserted into the sketched outline of a nude woman -- with Trump's alleged signature in the place of her pubic hair -- was one of many notes sent by Epstein's friends that his associate Ghislaine Maxwell had compiled into a book for his 50th birthday.

On Monday, the House Oversight Committee published a copy of the book and other personal files subpoenaed fr

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