US President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he plans to take legal action against the Wall Street Journal over a report attributing to him a letter with innuendos to the then-living powerful financier Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. Trump characterized the article as “false, malicious and defamatory.”
Through the Truth Social platform, Trump stated he would file a lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, its parent company NewsCorp, and its owner Rupert Murdoch. As he noted, he had personally warned about potential legal action before the article was even published.
How Donald Trump connects to Jeffrey Epstein
Despite the warning, “they proceeded to publish a false and defamatory article,” he commented angrily, adding that “if there was the slightest element of truth about any involvement with Epstein, his political opponents would have already revealed it years ago.”
The article reports, among other things, that while preparing a leather-bound album intended for Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 for his 50th birthday, his British partner and associate Ghislaine Maxwell had asked many of his friends, including Donald Trump, then a real estate mogul, to compose letters with their wishes.
Donald Trump’s letter, which the newspaper noted it had seen, contains various sexual innuendos, as do others in the album. It consists of several lines of typed text within a frame shaped like a naked woman, apparently hand-drawn with a marker, it clarifies. The then-future president’s signature appears at the bottom of the figure, at the level of the pubic hair, the report adds.
The Journal published this article amid controversy between President Trump and part of the MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement base over the Epstein case.
The conspiracy theories behind Epstein’s death
Jeffrey Epstein was found hanged in a cell in New York on August 10, 2019, before being tried for a series of sexual crimes, especially abuse of underage girls. According to authorities, he committed suicide.
His death fueled countless conspiracy theories, particularly that he was murdered to prevent shocking revelations about celebrities, blue-bloods, the wealthy – and politicians. Last week, the Department of Justice and the FBI assured that nothing new was found in the Epstein file that would justify releasing further documents.
They confirmed that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in prison and emphasized that they found no “client list” of the sexual exploitation network he allegedly maintained, nor “credible evidence that he blackmailed powerful people” after thoroughly examining the entire case file.
The announcement of these conclusions outraged some of Donald Trump’s supporters, who expected explosive revelations about the scandal after he returned to power, something fueled by his own administration promising to “lift the veil” on the “disgusting” case.
Obviously increasingly frustrated by criticism from his own political camp, Donald Trump accused certain “idiotic” Republicans Wednesday of “playing the game” of his Democratic opponents by constantly making criticisms.
