The president has filed a libel lawsuit in Florida against the right-wing media mogul and journalists who wrote the story
President Donald Trump has filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal’s parent companies News Corp and Dow Jones following the newspaper’s publication of the president’s alleged birthday letter to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The lawsuit filed in federal court in Miami targets Murdoch and News Corp executive Robert Thomson as well as the two WSJ journalists whose bylines appeared on the story.
The newspaper published his alleged 50th birthday greeting to Epstein from 2003, which was described as including a sexually suggestive drawing and a birthday wish that says “may every day be another wonderful secret.”
The defendants “failed to attach the letter, failed to attach the alleged drawing, failed to show proof that President Trump authored or signed any such letter, and failed to explain how this purported letter was obtained,” according to the lawsuit.
“The reason for those failures is because no authentic letter or drawing exists,” the complaint claims.
President Donald Trump is suing Rupert Murdoch and news conglomerates News Corp and Dow Jones for $10 billion following The Wall Street Journal’s publication of an alleged birthday card the president sent to Jeffrey Epstein. Trump also is suing the two journalists whose bylines appear on the report (Getty Images)
