In a new chapter of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and the fallout that implicates the President of the United States, Donald Trump announced that he will file a lawsuit against the newspaper The Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp, and owner Rupert Murdoch, after the dissemination of the alleged content of a letter that he would have addressed to the sexual offender.
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According to information from the WSJ, Trump’s note is part of a collection of bawdy letters that were given as a gift to the late Epstein in 2003 for his 50th birthday.
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The letters would be part of a book compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell, partner and close collaborator of Jeffrey Epstein, who was also convicted as a sex offender in 2022.
The writing from the US president supposedly included a drawing representing a woman’s body with the signature “Donald” in place of pubic hair, and was accompanied by the phrase “happy birthday, and may each day be another wonderful secret”.
Epstein was arrested and jailed for sex trafficking, and he committed suicide in prison in August 2019.
What did Donald Trump say about the information from the Wall Street Journal?
“The Wall Street Journal printed a FAKE letter, supposedly to Epstein. These are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don’t draw pictures. I told Rupert Murdoch it was a Scam, that he shouldn’t print this Fake Story. But he did, and now I’m going to sue his ass off, and that of his third rate newspaper,” Trump said on his Truth Social network.
According to the President of the United States, both the newspaper and Murdoch were personally warned that the alleged letter was fake.
Trump also claimed that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt contacted WSJ editor Emma Tucker, but she “didn’t want to hear that.” “Mr. Murdoch stated that he would take care of it but, obviously, did not have the power to do so,” added the president.
Rupert Murdoch is also the owner of Fox News, a channel allied with Trump and constantly praised by the Republican president. In addition, the 94-year-old Australian magnate was one of the guests invited by Donald Trump to his box at MetLife Stadium in New York to watch last Sunday’s Club World Cup final between Chelsea and PSG.
Trump orders the release of some of the Epstein Case files
The President of the United States ordered the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, “to present each and every relevant testimony from the Grand Jury (that filed charges against Epstein), subject to the approval of the Court,” a decision he made citing “the ridiculous amount of publicity given” to the case. “This scam, perpetrated by the Democrats, must end, right now!” Trump added on Truth Social.
In addition, the president assured that the Epstein case is “another example of fake news”, claiming that “if there was any truth... this information would have been revealed by Comey (the former FBI director), Brennan (former CIA director), Crooked Hillary (as he calls former Democratic vice president Hillary Clinton) and other lunatics from the radical left years ago.”
The Epstein case has become a problem for Trump, as the decision not to disclose more files and information from the case, including the alleged list of the sexual offender’s clients, has caused great annoyance among the MAGA movement and far-right politicians.