Wall Street Journal Claims Trump Sent Epstein Birthday Card, “May Every Day Be Another Wonderful Secret” – Trump Will Sue
July 18th, 2025Update: Trump Sues Wall Street Journal for $10 Billion
Via: CBS:
President Trump on Friday filed a libel lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal’s publisher and its leader, Rupert Murdoch, after the paper published a story on what it called a “bawdy” birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that the paper alleged was signed by Mr. Trump.
The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of Florida, seeks at least $10 billion in damages. It alleges the paper’s claims were “false, defamatory, unsubstantiated, and disparaging,” and accuses the Journal of “clear journalistic failures.”
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Via: ZeroHedge:
Donald Trump sent notorious sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein a bawdy birthday letter with a drawing of a naked woman, an acknowledgement that the two “have certain things in common,” and a wish for “every day [to] be another wonderful secret,” the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday evening, citing “documents” that its reporters had reviewed.
Later on Thursday evening, Trump announced that he’d directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to pursue the release of grand jury testimony from Epstein’s prosecution, in response to the “ridiculous amount of publicity” the case is receiving.
Trump denies he had anything to do with the letter. “This is not me. This is a fake thing. It’s a fake Wall Street Journal story,” Trump told the Journal in a Tuesday-evening interview. “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 vowed to take the paper to court if it published the story: “I’m gonna sue The Wall Street Journal just like I sued everyone else.”
Sue? There’s no way to prove who wrote or drew anything, though it would be an indicator if a person’s DNA were found on the paper. There are plenty of successful art forgeries out there.