President Donald Trump filed a federal libel lawsuit for $10 million against News Corp, the Wall Street Journal’s parent company. Trump is claiming that News Corp defamed him by alleging that he sent Jeffrey Epstein a raunchy letter on his 50th birthday. The Wall Street Journal article was released on the heels of the “Epstein Files” controversy, which Democrats have been exploiting in hopes that it will harm the public’s opinion of the president.
Before the Wall Street Journal printed the article, Trump claimed that the reported letter was fabricated, or at least not from him.
On Truth Social, he let the public know that “the Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned… that the supposed letter they printed… was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued.”
The Wall Street Journal printed the article despite the president’s warning. On Thursday, Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo’s article titled “Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump” was published. The article reported Trump’s claims that the letter was a fraud.
In the article, the two authors describe a suggestive and personal letter. The article alleges that Trump sent the letter to Epstein as a part of a 50th birthday gift. The piece did not include photographic evidence of the letter. The article described the letter as “a typewritten note styled as an imaginary conversation between Trump and Epstein, written in third person.”
The two authors claim that the typed note was written inside a crude drawing of a nude woman, which they allege was cartooned by the president himself.
To these accusations, Donald Trump said that he doesn’t, and has never, drawn.
“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,” he concluded.
When the “Epstein Files” story became controversial even among MAGA conservatives, liberal media outlets and Democrat politicians eagerly accepted the chance to attack the president.
Liberals have been further attacking the president, posting snarky videos about how he has drawn pictures in the past (though not of women, but of New York City).
Presiding over the case will be Judge Darrin P. Gayles, who was appointed during the Obama administration.
Trump is vehemently defending his name and reputation among his supporters and the rest of the country as he redirects the public’s attention to his second term. Trump has sued many media companies before, including the historic lawsuit he filed against Paramount Global, which was settled on the first of this month.