Donald Trump posted on Reality Social on Thursday an announcement that he plans to sue the Wall Road Journal, Information Corp. and proprietor Rupert Murdoch over the publication’s story on his relationship with convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The Journal reported earlier within the day on collected letters that Epstein’s mates wrote as a part of a birthday album given to him in 2003. Among the many letters was one bearing Trump’s identify that “incorporates a number of traces of typewritten textual content framed by the define of a unadorned girl, which seems to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker,” the Journal reported, including {that a} “pair of small arcs denotes the lady’s breasts, and the long run president’s signature is a squiggly ‘Donald’ beneath her waist, mimicking pubic hair.”
Knowledgeable of the letter, Trump denied writing it, and threatened to sue the Journal.
The put up on Reality Social learn, “The Wall Road Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, had been warned instantly by President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE and, in the event that they print it, they are going to be sued. Mr. Murdoch acknowledged that he would maintain it however, clearly, didn’t have the facility to take action. The Editor of The Wall Road Journal, Emma Tucker, was instructed instantly by Karoline Leavitt, and by President Trump, that the letter was a FAKE, however Emma Tucker didn’t need to hear that. As an alternative, they’re going with a false, malicious, and defamatory story anyway. President Trump shall be suing The Wall Road Journal, NewsCorp, and Mr. Murdoch, shortly. The Press has to study to be truthful, and never depend on sources that in all probability don’t even exist.
“President Trump has already crushed George Stephanopoulos/ABC, 60 Minutes/CBS, and others, and appears ahead to suing and holding accountable the as soon as nice Wall Road Journal. It has actually turned out to be a ‘Disgusting and Filthy Rag’ and, writing defamatory lies like this, reveals their desperation to stay related. If there have been any fact in any respect on the Epstein Hoax, because it pertains to President Trump, this data would have been revealed by Comey, Brennan, Crooked Hillary, and different Radical Left Lunatics years in the past. It actually wouldn’t have sat in a file ready for ‘TRUMP’ to have received three Elections. That is one more instance of FAKE NEWS!”
White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt additionally did an X put up on Trump’s authorized menace.
A spokesperson for Information Corp. didn’t instantly return a request for remark. A spokesperson for Fox Corp. had no remark. A spokesperson for Dow Jones, the writer of the Journal, stated, “The story speaks for itself.”
Trump has been irked by the Epstein story because it resurfaced earlier this month, when the Justice Division introduced in a memo that there was no “Epstein” checklist and that the proof confirmed that he died by suicide in 2019. That drew a MAGA backlash, as figures like present FBI director Kash Patel and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino have pushed conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein. Trump has tried to tamp the speak down, even blaming it on the Democrats and calling it a “hoax.”
In a Reality Social put up in a while Thursday, Trump wrote, “Primarily based on the ridiculous quantity of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I’ve requested Lawyer Common Pam Bondi to supply any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, topic to Court docket approval. This SCAM, perpetuated by the Democrats, ought to finish, proper now!”
Trump has issued many authorized threats towards media shops, and quite a lot of them by no means result in precise litigation. Murdoch, although, has prior to now drawn Trump’s reward. He attended Trump’s inauguration and, in a go to to the Oval Workplace in February, Trump referred to as Murdoch “in a category by himself. He’s an incredible man.”
