BY JIBRIL TURE

Breaking just this minute! Among the just-released Epstein files is unquestionable evidence that Donald Trump did send a birthday card to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on the latter’s 50th birthday, wishing him well, along with a sexually explicit drawing.

Mr. Trump has previously vehemently denied having sent the said card, going as far as taking The Wall Street Journal to Court for a whopping $b10 over the newspaper reporting that he did so.

As expected, White House staff members who had repeatedly relayed Trump’s denials, jumped again to his defense upon the release of the damaging piece of evidence. They claimed, once again, that the signature on the just-released document is not that of Donald Trump: “As I have said all along, it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it,” wrote on social media White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

For his part, echoing his colleague’s claim, the deputy chief of staff for communications, Taylor Budowich, wrote in his post that the signature on the just-released document is not that of Trump. In an attempt to back his claim, Budowich shared photos of Trump’s signatures that look slightly different.

Budowich’s claim has been vigorously debunked by The New York Times. The newspaper writes: “But several pieces of personal correspondence reviewed by The New York Times that Mr. Trump signed with just his first name decades ago, closer to the time period of the birthday book, look remarkably similar to the signature on the drawing, with more distinct individual letters and a long tail of ink at the end of the final “d” in “Donald.” The leading U.S. newspaper added that it “obtained copies of the documents several years ago from the official New York City archives of former Mayors Rudolph W. Giuliani and Edward I. Koch.”

The African magazine has been among the many voices in the United States demanding the release of the Epstein. The magazine did so just a few weeks ago in its September issue.