President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, over the paper’s claim to report on a letter he allegedly wrote to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein years ago.
Trump has said he never wrote the letter, and the report is false.
The lawsuit has been filed in the Southern District of Florida against WSJ, Dow Jones and Murdoch, according to a Daily Mail report.
The claim by the newspaper is that Trump “wrote a ‘bawdy’ 50th birthday card to Epstein which concluded: ‘Happy Birthday – and may every day be another wonderful secret,’” the report said.
The publication claimed to have seen a typewritten letter with Trump’s signature, “framed by the seemingly hand-drawn outline of a naked woman.”
Trump’s response to the claim is that it is “false, malicious, and defamatory.”
“I look forward to getting Rupert Murdoch to testify in my lawsuit against him and his ‘pile of garbage’ newspaper, the WSJ,” Trump said on social media.
The paper claimed Trump wrote, “We have certain things in common, Jeffrey” and that both of them know that “there must be more to life than having everything,” the report said.
Trump had told the WSJ, “I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women. It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”
On social media, the president reported he warned the publication that the “supposed letter” was a fake.
“The editor of the Wall Street Journal, Emma Tucker, was told directly by Karoline Leavitt, and by President Trump, that the letter was a FAKE, but Emma Tucker didn’t want to hear that. Instead, they are going with a false, malicious, and defamatory story anyway.”
Trump pointed out, “If there was a ‘smoking gun’ on Epstein, why didn’t the Dems, who controlled the ‘files’ for four years, and had Garland and Comey in charge, use it? BECAUSE THEY HAD NOTHING.”
Trump has urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to release additional Epstein files.
The Mail explained, “The late financier was charged in 2008 for soliciting prostitution with an underaged girl and received a modest jail sentence in Florida. He was later charged with federal sex trafficking crimes in 2019. He hung himself in prison awaiting his trial, feds say.”
But evidence shows he socialized with Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and others.
“Anyone who believes Trump got markers out to draw the figure of a woman and write what sounds like some weird Democrat fan fiction inside it to Jeffrey Epstein is an imbecile with a room temperature IQ,” commentator Robby Starbuck wrote.
Trump previously has sued several networks over their false allegations about him, and has settled several of the cases for payments amounting to millions of dollars.