Trump sues Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch over Epstein article

President Donald Trump brought legal action less than 24 hours after the Wall Street Journal published an article saying that Trump had sent a letter to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 which included a drawing of a naked woman.

The trial, which requires at least $ 10 billion in damages and a trial with jury, appoints the parent company of the newspaper, News Corp.; its publisher, Dow Jones; two journalists from the newspaper; The owner of News Corp., Rupert Murdoch, and the general manager Robert Thomson, as defendants.

“We have just put a legal action against all the people involved in the publication of the false, malicious, defamatory article and false news’ in the unnecessary” cloth “which is the Wall Street Journal”, wrote Trump on Truth Social.

In an 18-page complaint filed in the southern district of Florida, Trump’s lawyers said that two days before the publication of the article, one of the two journalists had sent an email to the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, about the birthday letter, which prompted a lawyer to Trump to warn the newspaper, saying that the article was false and defamatory. None of the accused responded to the lawyer, according to the trial.

“The supposed letter is a false and the defendants knew this when they chose to deliberately defame President Trump,” said the trial.

The costume comes after Trump denied the report of the Wall Street Journal that he had written a birthday message to Epstein more than two decades that presented a outline drawn by hand of a naked woman and a signature of his first name, according to the documents examined by the newspaper. NBC News has not independently confirmed the newspaper report.

A Dow Jones spokesperson defended the newspaper reports in a statement on Friday evening.

“We have fully confidence in the rigor and precision of our reports, and we vigorously defend any trial,” said the spokesperson.

News Corp. And the two journalists listed as defendants did not immediately respond to requests for comments on Friday. Information on Murdoch lawyers was not immediately available on the court of the court.

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After the review published his article Thursday, Trump posted on Truth Social according to which he had ordered the Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce a “relevant” testimony linked to the Epstein case submitted to the approval of the court, citing “the ridiculous quantity of advertising given to Jeffrey Epstein”.

Bondi replied on X that the Ministry of Justice was “ready to move the court tomorrow to a question the transcriptions of the great jury” and Friday, the DOJ filed a request aimed at designing transcriptions of the Grand Jury linked to Epstein and to the Co-Conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell the criminal case before the Federal Court of Manhattan given “the public interest” in the public work.

The Ministry of Justice plans to work with federal prosecutors in New York to paint documents and refuse “all the identification information of the victims” before any public communication, according to the file.

Trump and his Republican allies sought to blame the Democrats for the Maelstrom surrounding Epstein, despite many years of Trump supporters promoting conspiracy theories linked to death in Epstein prison in 2019. On the campaign track, Trump said that he would have “no problem” in search of a list of Epstein customers if it were elected.

Many supporters of Trump called for the publication of files related to the case of Epstein after the Ministry of Justice published a memo this month saying that an examination of cases of cases had not been revealed a list of customers, that there was “no credible evidence, who noted that Epstein made the singing individuals sing in the context of his actions”, “ and that “no other disclosure would be appropriate or justified”.

The White House said Thursday that Trump was not interested in appointing a special lawyer to examine the case of Epstein. He recently minimized files as “boring” and disowned supporters who, according to him, “bought this bull-“.

Trump, who has frequently threatened with legal proceedings against media organizations, has won several victories thanks to disputes in recent months.

Last year, Trump continued CBS for $ 20 billion During a “60 -minute” interview with the candidate for the Democratic presidential election of 2024, Kamala Harris, who said he was deceptive. CBS’s parent company, Paramount, agreed this month to settle the pursuit of $ 16 million.

In December, ABC agreed to pay $ 15 million to settle a similar trial in which Trump said that George Stephanopoulos of ABC defammed him and made false declarations in an interview with representative Nancy Mace, Rs.c.