President Donald Trump refused to address a birthday note that he reportedly wrote to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after House Democrats released it.

On Tuesday, NBC News contacted the president by phone to ask him about the message he allegedly sent for Epstein's 50th birthday. The note was written inside a doodle of a woman and included a reference to a "wonderful secret."

"I don't comment on something that's a dead issue," Trump told NBC. "I gave all comments to the staff. It's a dead issue."

The president had previously denied that the note existed.

White House aides insisted that the note released to Democrats by Epstein's estate was fake.

"The latest piece published by the Wall Street Journal PROVES this entire 'Birthday Card' story is false," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on Monday. "As I have said all along, it's very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it."

Leavitt warned that Trump would "continue to aggressively pursue litigation" against Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal for first publishing details about the note in July.

CNN senior legal analyst and attorney Elie Honig outlined what he said will be an outcome in the growing scandal over President Donald Trump’s past ties to Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday — and it could put the president in a very precarious spot.

Trump is under renewed scrutiny for his past ties with Epstein, the late financier and convicted child sex offender, after a House committee published new documents Monday revealing details of the pair's relationship, including a bawdy letter Trump allegedly sent Epstein in 2003.

That letter was first reported in July by the Wall Street Journal, leading Trump to sue the outlet for defamation seeking $10 billion in damages and denying ever having written it — and even denying it existed.

With the letter now published, however, Trump’s case against the outlet “just got a heck of a lot more difficult for him,” Honig said Tuesday.

“Trump's lead claim is that this letter did not exist, he says it was nonexistent; well, now we know it certainly exists,” Honig said.

“And not only do we know it exists, let's remember how we saw this letter. The House subpoenaed it from the Epstein Estate, and that's exactly consistent with the Wall Street Journal's reporting that this letter was sent to Jeffrey Epstein. Turns out it was exactly where one would expect it to be based on the Journal's reporting.”

Following the trove of Epstein files published Monday, Trump’s lawsuit against the Journal has now reached a “crucial moment,” Honig said, and one that, under certain circumstances, could backfire strongly on the president.

“If the motion to dismiss is granted, well then case is over, defendant wins, but if not, then we get into discovery,” Honig said.

“Then the parties have to give each other documents, then we get into under oath depositions, and that could mean – if this survives the motion to dismiss – then we're going to see depositions of Journal personnel, under oath, and certainly we will see depositions of Donald Trump; he's the plaintiff. He absolutely will be put under oath in his own case and examined by lawyers for [the] Journal, if this survives the motion to dismiss. But I think that just got a lot less likely.”

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Donald Trump has been no stranger to denying accusations levied against him, with the president having popularized the term "fake news" to dismiss negative press coverage, but his latest attempts to deflect on his past ties with Jeffrey Epstein have reached a new low “even by his standards,” a columnist noted Tuesday.

“Trump’s efforts to make the Jeffrey Epstein controversy go away have been ham-fisted and inept, even by his standards,” wrote Salon columnist Amanda Marcotte for her biweekly newsletter “Standing Room Only.”

The late financier and convicted child sex offender allegedly ran a blackmail operation targeting powerful figures, and he had a storied history with Trump, new details of which were revealed Monday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

Among the most notable documents released by the House committee was a copy of a letter Trump had allegedly sent to Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003, in which Trump wrote “may every day be another wonderful secret” against a backdrop of a crudely-drawn woman’s torso, presumed to also be drawn by Trump. The president denied having written the letter, which was first reported on by the Wall Street Journal back in July and was released by a House committee Tuesday.

There’s one detail in the letter, however, that Marcotte zeroed in on as particularly disturbing, given that the Journal’s initial reporting did not include an image of the letter, only describing it with words.

“Somehow, it’s even worse than I pictured it,” Marcotte wrote. “I was assuming a cartoonish Playboy-bunny model, because that fits more with the image of himself Trump likes to project. The drawing, however, looks more like a stylized teenage girl."

Trump has called the letter a hoax, and even implied that his signature had been forged, a denial repeated by White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt. His ability to move past a scandal with outright denials, however, has appeared to reach a breaking point, with many in the MAGA ecosystem not happy with the president’s handling of the matter, and some experts even warning that the Epstein scandal could tank the GOP in the 2026 midterm elections.