The signature of the American president is one of the most powerful symbols on the planet. This can determine your tax account, your immigration status and what does or does not receive help from the world’s largest economy.
But now Donald Trump’s exclusive signature is being checked for undoubtedly indescribable reason.
Two documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birth album, allegedly, are a short signature-one on a risky woman’s body drawing, the other by a picture of Epstein, which follows the name of an innovative check with a short name. The Palace Committee issued on Monday in 2003. The book, some members demanded that multimedia signatures are authentically short, one of the best known autographs in the world. The White House says the president did not sign a letter or check for Epstein, who was later revealed as a sexual offender and died of suicide in prison in 2019.
“This is not my signature,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday night at the Washington restaurant. – And that’s not the way I speak. The president also announced the Epstein MATTER on Tuesday in a phone call with NBC News.
The signatures of the Birthday Book are partly important because they are perceived as a measure, what close -short Trump was for Epstein until the president says he ended his friendship two decades ago.
And they are part of a bilateral impetus for the Congress of the so -called epessein after many years of speculation and conspiracy theories caused by short and many of its allies. August The Department of Justice began to be handed over to the Epstein Sex Traffic Investigation Home Care Committee.
Signatures have authority. But now?
According to the standards of handwriting scientists, determining whether this is really a short signature is difficult. Under the US standards of the political system, this is impossible. Despite the obvious resemblance to Trump’s signatures, guerrilla loyalty promotes opinion.
Tamara Plasins Thornton, author of the history of Buffalo University and “Writing in America: Cultural History”, said handwritten signatures have given authority and authenticity “consent” since printing house has increased its popularity in the 19th century.
“We enjoy signatures as unique self signs,” Thornton said. “But, of course, this is a kind of baloney if you think about it. It’s been a long time since (signature) could definitely give that strong evidence.”
“Authenticity is a very difficult thing to prove,” said Tyler Feldman, owner of Intercriptagraph, a commemorative company in Las Vegas. According to him, several billion dollars in the Memorabilian industry, he said, creates the authenticity of the object through science and analysis with specialists. In the AI and Deepfakes, “There are so many signatures of fraud,” he added, “Whether it has been signed or not, it is too difficult to say.”
Nevertheless, signatures have a great value and a long history in American folklore.
Signing pens themselves are symbols of access to president status, shown in lobbying and congress rooms around Washington as signs of influence. Usually, for example, the presidents to sign the laws that sign the laws using several pens they later publish, often in the camera, to the parties concerned. The then chairwoman of the house, Nancy Pelosi, did the same when 2020 Signed impeachment articles against short, as it was the Power Flex as a separate and equal branch of the government branch.
John Hancock, one of the founders of the nation, loudly signed his name to the Declaration of Independence in a big and colorful style – the better the legend that the King of England can read without his glasses. Now John Hancock is the nickname of his signature.
If not proof, signatures indicate Trump’s stubborn political pain
Even a short experience can see that he cannot simply order a great deal of his base, demanding detailed accounting to release it, especially after his allies invited the invitation to issue Epstein files. He tried to focus on other things several times and to be ashamed of the “weak” who continue to ask about Epstein. The short scandal was called “Democrats’ deceit that never ends” and promised to go to court with a Wall Street Journal, which first revealed the letter.
Even the description of “deception” changed according to the questions of logic. Would have created his own signature and why? On Tuesday, the White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt replied that it was all the democratic and media narrative “drag this bad story about him”. She said the White House will support an analysis of the short -alleged signature in the Epstein scrap book.
Republican spokesman Tom Massie from Kentucky, who heads a bilateral, to vote home to force the Department of Justice to release his Epstein files, released the relevance of the letter.
“I think the document distracts attention,” Massie said. “I think it depends on the reliability of the people who are trying to prevent these documents from launching. It is as if it shows things that may turn out if we release all the cases. In other words: shamefully but not mentioned.”
Trump understands the value of their autograph
Trump was a celebrity before he was a politician and his signature was an extension of his brand. He has long liked sending notes for people, always with his thick scandal at the bottom. 2015 December Trump was widely photographed by signing a woman’s sponsor’s chest through rally Manasas, Virginia, rock star style. According to The Exchange photos, she smiles, then she blew a kiss for him.
He understands the value of authenticity: more recently in June. Trump repeated his long -term suspicions that President Joe Biden’s White House was relied on by Autopen to sign the President’s grace, executive orders and other basic documents, and said they had doubts about their validity. The pressure of journalists Trump acknowledged that he had no such evidence, and Biden said such a proposal was false.
As president, short supports Sharpie markers. When he went to US Open, he signed hats on Sunday and threw them to the crowd sponsors.
Trump also enjoys the theatricality of the documents, the way to show the power of the Presidency. At the end of the executive orders, he often yells the press to the oval cabinet. The assistant helps the document on the table in front, short scans his signature and then holds it to the cameras.
“Seriously, is it a good signature?” He asked for one such session on August 25th. “Who can write that way? No one.”
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Kellman reported from London. Chris Megerian and Matt Brown, Associated Press writers, contributed to this Washington report.