It is for $10 billion: Trump filed a lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal for an alleged bawdy letter to Epstein

According to the media owned by Rupert Murdoch, Trump sent Epstein a hand-drawn note of a naked woman in 2003.

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Donald Trump Donald Trump, alongside FIFA President Gianni Infantino, at the awards ceremony for the Club World Cup final, held at MetLife Stadium on July 13 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (The White House)

An alleged “obscene” letter thatDonald Trump allegedly sent to the late convicted sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday, as reported by The Wall Street Journal, sparked the anger of the President of the United States, who announced that he filed a lawsuit against the prestigious media outlet for 10 billion dollars.

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According to CNBC, the lawsuit filed by Trump in a federal court for the Southern District of Florida includes the newspaper; News Corp, the company that owns the WSJ; the owner Rupert Murdoch; the company’s CEO, Robert Thomson, and the two journalists who wrote the article in question, Khadeeja Safdar and Joseph Palazzolo.

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What did Donald Trump say about the lawsuit?

“We have just filed a strong lawsuit against all those involved in the publication of the false, malicious, defamatory, and fake news article in the useless newspaper The Wall Street Journal. This historic legal action is brought against the alleged authors of this defamation, as well as against their corporate owners and affiliates, with Rupert Murdoch and Robert Thomson (whatever their position may be!) at the helm,” announced the republican president in a post on Truth Social.

In his fight against traditional US media outlets that do not align with his political agenda, Trump said he had added The Wall Street Journal to the list of media outlets that “sell and promote disgusting lies” to the American people, including “fake Pulitzer Prizes” like ABC, George Stephanopoulos (Trump discredited him by writing his name as “Slopadopoulos”), CBS, and 60 Minutes. He also stated that they “will no longer tolerate the abusive actions of fake news media”.

What did the supposed letter from Trump to Epstein say?

According to the lawsuit, journalists Safdar and Palazzolo “wrote and published together an article mainly focused on President Trump falsely claiming that he had written, drawn, and signed a card to wish the late - and completely dishonored - Jeffrey Epstein a happy fiftieth birthday.”

The denounced article made reference to the use of vulgar language in the letter, including the image, hand-drawn, of a naked woman under whose waist the name “Donald” would appear simulating pubic hair.

According to the article from the WSJ, the note was accompanied by the phrase “happy birthday, and may each day be another wonderful secret.”

“These are not my words, it’s not how I speak. Also, I don’t do drawings,” said Trump in another comment on his social media platform published Friday morning.

In that same comment, the Republican president asserted that both the newspaper and Murdoch “personally, had been directly warned” that said information was false.

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.

Faced with the new escalation of the Epstein case, Trump also ordered the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to present “each and every relevant testimony of the Grand Jury (that brought charges against Epstein), subject to the approval of the Court,” a decision that, according to the president, he made alleging “the ridiculous amount of publicity given” to the case. “This scam, perpetrated by the Democrats, must end, right now!” he concluded on Truth Social.

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