Trump sues Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch over reporting on Epstein ties
President Donald Trump On Friday, a trial of $ 10 million against the Wall Street Journal and the Rupert Murdoch media magnate, one day after the newspaper published a story reporting on its links with the rich financier Jeffrey Epstein.
This decision occurred shortly after the Ministry of Justice asked a federal court on Friday to unshine the transcriptions of the Grand Jury in Epstein case of sexual traffic, as the administration tries to contain a fire storm This exploded after having previously announced that he would not publish additional government files from the case.
Trump had promised the trial after Thet Journal put the spotlight on his relationship with Epstein, publishing an article describing a sexually suggestive letter which, according to the newspaper, obtained the name of Trump and was included in a 2003 album compiled for Epstein’s 50th anniversary. Trump denies writing the letter, calling the story “false, malicious and defamatory”.
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In an article on his social site Truth, Trump rejected the trial as part of his efforts to punish the media, notably ABC and CBS, which both reached several million dollars settlement agreements with the president after having brought to justice.
“This prosecution is filed not only on behalf of your favorite president, me, but also to continue to defend all Americans who will no longer tolerate the abusive misdeeds of false media,” he wrote.
A representative of Dow Jones, the publisher of the review, did not immediately respond to a request for comments on Friday.
The letter revealed by the Wall Street Journal would have been collected by British socialite in disgrace Ghislaine Maxwell As part of a birthday album for Epstein for years before the arrest of the rich financier in 2006 and then had a fall with Trump.
The letter bearing the name of Trump includes text framed by the outline of what seems to be a naked woman drawn by hand and ends with: “Happy birthday – and maybe another wonderful secret”, according to the newspaper.
Trump denied having written the letter and promised to continue. He said that he had spoken both to the owner of the newspaper, Rupert Murdoch, and to his best publisher, Emma Tucker, before the publication of the story and told them that the letter was “false”.
“These are not my words, not the way I speak. In addition, I do not draw images,” wrote the president on social networks.
The point of sale described the content of the letter but did not publish a photo showing entirely or provided details on the way in which he was learned. The prosecution was filed before the Federal Court in Miami.
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Earlier Friday, the deputy prosecutor General Todd Blanche filed requests in a separate federal court exhorting them to descend the transcriptions of Epstein as well as those of the case against Maxwell, who was found guilty of having attracted adolescent girls to be sexually abused by Epstein. Epstein committed suicide in 2019 shortly after his arrest while waiting for the trial.
The announcement of the Ministry of Justice according to which it no longer makes public the files of partly enraged Epstein files of the parts of the Trump base because the members of her own administration had aroused the planned release and delighted conspiracies around the well connected financier.
The Ministry of Justice said in legal files that this would work with prosecutors in New York to make the appropriate writing of the information related to the victims and other personal identification information before the publication of transcriptions.
“Transparency in this process will not be at the expense of our obligation under the law to protect the victims,” wrote Blanche.
But despite the new push to publish the transcriptions of the Grand Jury, the administration has not announced its intention to overthrow the course and publish other evidence in its possession. The Attorney General Pam Bondi had excited the release of more documents after the first disclosure of Epstein files in February triggered the indignation because it did not contain any new revelation.
A judge should approve the release of the great jury transcriptions, and it is likely that it is a long process to decide what can become public and make writing to protect sensitive information from witnesses and victims.
The files would show a testimony of witnesses and other evidence which was presented by the proceedings during the secret procedure of the Grand Jury, when a panel decides if there is enough evidence to provide an act of accusation or an official criminal accusation.
