Decoding Donald Trump signature row: Handwriting expert's key observation on Jeffrey Epstein birthday card

According to handwriting expert Emma Bache the signature in Jeffrey Epstein's birthday book is of Donald Trump.

By Rajasree Roy

Oct 07, 2025 11:58 IST

September 10, Wednesday: In an attempt to dispel the controversy surrounding a birthday book that was made for Jeffrey Epstein, a handwriting expert asserted that the controversial book's signature was US President Donald Trump’s signature. “It is very much the signature he had in the 2000s,” graphologist Emma Bache told Sky News after comparing the handwriting with authenticated samples from the early 2000s. I'm positive it belongs to Donald Trump’.

Epstein's close friend Ghislaine Maxwell put together the book in question, in 2003 for his fiftieth birthday. Recently, the US Congress Oversight Committee received files from it. It contains a crude hand-drawn illustration of a woman's body signed "Donald," a caricature of Epstein holding a huge check signed "DJTRUMP," and a message in which Lord Peter Mandelson is said to have called Epstein his "best pal."

White House has dismissed the files outright

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X, “Furthermore, the “reporter” @joe_palazzolo who wrote this hatchet job reached out for comment at the EXACT same minute he published his story giving us no time to respond.” In her opinion this is fake news and these all are happening to perpetuate the Democrat Epstein Hoax!

Bache, however, cited unique features such as the rounded “o” in “Donald” and the elongated horizontal stroke at the end of the name. She mentioned, "It’s incredibly distinctive… it’s absolutely identical in pressure, in length and formation of about every single stroke,” Bache concluded her point saying the forgery was “almost impossible. It’s a very confident, very speedy signature and when you forge something, you do it more slowly,” she added.

“His modern signature is all angles and in graphology, angles are about energy, aggression, there’s a tension there. There’s no softness and his communication style is one of ‘you will listen to me, and I am right.’”

Meanwhile, Mandelson’s note in the same book has sparked questions about his past ties to Epstein. His spokesman has since said he “very much regrets ever having been introduced” to the disgraced financier.


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