USA Trump Sues Wall Street Journal Over Epstein Birthday Letter Claim

[candide]

21 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

A work of fiction that is going to cost those involved a lot.

It is still possible that you may be right. However, after having to pay hundreds of million to Dominion, I don't imagine Murdoch allowing this publication without full approval from his group's lawyers.

[EVENKEEL]

2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Trump is getting hammered for protecting  pedophiles, so what to do? 

Oh yeah, let’s talk about the stock market.

 

 

The dems are cornered yet again. They can't complain about the stock market, the southern border has been handled. They're losing on all fronts.

 

So now it's about a birthday card? How pathetic.

[bubblegum]

4 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

The dems are cornered yet again. They can't complain about the stock market, the southern border has been handled. They're losing on all fronts.

 

So now it's about a birthday card? How pathetic.

Let talk MAGE for a moment: The podophile, babies eating, Satanists, elite Dems and Hollywood stars. The Deep State cabal and their minions, should be brought to justice! LOCK them UP, LOCK them UP !

 

Nothing here. A birthday card.

[PPGuy]

A  number of Trump supporters, including Bill Ackman (Hedge fund owner), Sean Davis (The Federalist) and Don Jr, have chimed into say that DJT would never use the word 'enigma'. This has proven to be false as per 'Newrepublic' article.

https://newrepublic.com/post/198123/maga-trump-never-use-one-word-epstein-birthday-letter-enigma

 

Possibly pertinent. An anagram of ,enigmas, is ,gamines,.

The meaning of which is not difficult to find....If the letter is proved to be genuine it gives an interesting slant on it's use.

[Brn2Trvl]

Trump ='s Epstein.

Epstein =∙s Trump.

it’s not a difficult equation.

[Srikcir]

10 hours ago, frank83628 said:

Its hardly a 'dramatic move' Trump warned that he wouldd sue if they ran the story.

They did, so he did....

TACO will change his mind when the defendant requires a live deposition from plaintiff Trump. 

[dinsdale]

In the 18-page filing, Trump’s legal team accuses the Journal’s parent company of engaging in “glaring failures in journalistic ethics and standards of accurate reporting.” The filing notes that the Journal, in its story, did not publish the drawing or the letter that its reporters allege Trump authored.

“The reason for those failures is because no authentic letter or drawing exists,” Trump’s lawyer wrote in the lawsuit, which was filed in a federal court in Miami.

Trump had threatened to sue almost immediately after the story, which was written by Journal reporters Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo, was published late Thursday afternoon. Both reporters are named as defendants in the lawsuit.

“The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned directly by President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued,” the president said in a Truth Social post.

The president added in that post that Murdoch, the owner of News Corp, the Journal’s parent company, “stated that he would take care of it.”

“But, obviously, did not have the power to do so,” Trump added.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/18/politics/trump-wall-street-journal-jeffrey-epstein

[jerrymahoney]

10 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

The filing notes that the Journal, in its story, did not publish the drawing or the letter that its reporters allege Trump authored.

As per the WSJ summary page 2, the WSJ does not claim to have the alleged document in their possession.

[frank83628]

6 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

In the 18-page filing, Trump’s legal team accuses the Journal’s parent company of engaging in “glaring failures in journalistic ethics and standards of accurate reporting.” The filing notes that the Journal, in its story, did not publish the drawing or the letter that its reporters allege Trump authored.

“The reason for those failures is because no authentic letter or drawing exists,” Trump’s lawyer wrote in the lawsuit, which was filed in a federal court in Miami.

Trump had threatened to sue almost immediately after the story, which was written by Journal reporters Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo, was published late Thursday afternoon. Both reporters are named as defendants in the lawsuit.

“The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned directly by President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued,” the president said in a Truth Social post.

The president added in that post that Murdoch, the owner of News Corp, the Journal’s parent company, “stated that he would take care of it.”

“But, obviously, did not have the power to do so,” Trump added.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/18/politics/trump-wall-street-journal-jeffrey-epstein

They MSM have zero accountability.

CNN settles with Nathan sandman, who they named maga kid 275m, Kyle Rittenhouse too i think around 250m

[spidermike007]

Trump just can't help himself, it feels as if everything that he's doing at this point is just making things worse, he's digging a deeper hole for himself, and he just seems panicked. He doesn't seem to know how to extricate himself from a situation very unlike the ones he's faced in the past. 

 

He's accustomed to unconditional support without anyone ever questioning anything he does and MAGA is now asking questions. And he has no idea how to respond because he is guilty as sin. 

 

 

[EVENKEEL]

29 minutes ago, bubblegum said:

Let talk MAGE for a moment: The podophile, babies eating, Satanists, elite Dems and Hollywood stars. The Deep State cabal and their minions, should be brought to justice! LOCK them UP, LOCK them UP !

 

Nothing here. A birthday card.

I thought AI was smarter.

[JackGats]

All male celebrities and politicians become sexual abusers. That's what you get when all prostitution gets re-branded as "trafficking" and any sex with teenagers gets re-branded as "pedophilia".

[dinsdale]

31 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

TACO will change his mind when the defendant requires a live deposition from plaintiff Trump. 

Why would Trump need to testify?  Trump is the plaintiff. The defendants need to prove the letter exists and they haven't defamed Trump. This case is about the purported letter, claimed damages and nothing else.

[DezLez]

46 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

TACO will change his mind when the defendant requires a live deposition from plaintiff Trump. 

And ask him to explain his lie over "he never draws pictures" statement in the filling!

[simple1]

Absolute cowardice by Trump. Whilst he is in power he has full protection against his defaming his fellow citizens, even going so far to defund public media organisations, including more the 1,500 local radio and TV stations. Astounding hypocrisy.

[jvs]

8 hours ago, dinsdale said:

For years the Democrats could have released them but didn't.

Yes they could have but they did not.

Trump promised he would release them but of course he did not,question is, why not?

[TheAppletons]

7 minutes ago, DezLez said:

And ask him to explain his lie over "he never draws pictures" statement in the filling!

 

  Big misunderstanding.  He actually said, "I never draw pitchers."

 

  See, it's always people trying to make him look bad.  Once again, a victim - probably Hillary's fault.

[dinsdale]

1 minute ago, jvs said:

Yes they could have but they did not.

Trump promised he would release them but of course he did not,question is, why not?

Plenty of names I guess but that doesn't mean all those names were involved in what Epstein was doing. 

[Yellowtail]

2 minutes ago, simple1 said:

Absolute cowardice by Trump. Whilst he is in power he has full protection against his defaming his fellow citizens, even going so far to defund public media organisations, including more the 1,500 local radio and TV stations. Astounding hypocrisy.

But I thought NPR and PBS only got a tiny fraction of their funding from tax money? 

 

All the rich lefty's should just pony-up the extra dough. 

[jerrymahoney]

13 minutes ago, DezLez said:

And ask him to explain his lie over "he never draws pictures" statement in the filling!

NB that 'never draws' was on Truth Social not in the filing:

 

"I don't draw pictures," Trump wrote on Truth Social this week, disputing a Wall Street Journal report about a 2003 birthday greeting for late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that bore Trump's name and featured a sexually suggestive drawing.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-doesnt-draw-auctioned-sketches-suggest-otherwise-2025-07-19/

 

 

[dinsdale]

8 minutes ago, simple1 said:

defund public media organisations

Public media organisations are not meant to be politically biased. Of course this is no longer the case. BBC, ABC (Australia) and CBC being glaring examples. 

[bubblegum]

39 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

I thought AI was smarter.

One liners. All you do is one liners. Insults and one liners, just like Trump and his cult followers. Oh funny. YOU are the follower.

[BusyB]

11 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Yes. The student surpassed the teacher. Tragically for Americans.

 

Like it or not they were given a choice. 

 

 

[Jingthing]

1 minute ago, BusyB said:

 

Like it or not they were given a choice. 

 

 

Trump has proven to be an incredibly effective political propagandist so yes he did win this time.

But he didn't win the right to be a one person dictator and that's clearly how he's acting. 

[Yellowtail]

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Trump has proven to be an incredibly effective political propagandist so yes he did win this time.

But he didn't win the right to be a one person dictator and that's clearly how he's acting. 

What has he done that would lead one to think he acting like a dictator? 

[BusyB]

3 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Trump has proven to be an incredibly effective political propagandist so yes he did win this time.

But he didn't win the right to be a one person dictator and that's clearly how he's acting. 

 

I disagree. His background, CV, personality, conviction (the felonies and sex harassment verdicts I mean - he has no moral convictions beyond himself) were all on open display. And he openly said exactly what he wanted to do. So far he's been doing just that.

 

But it's fun to watch the magaloons get a taste of what decent people have been having to contend with since January this year.

 

Just wait till Vance takes over. I firmly believe that's the gameplan. Then there will be a deafening wailing and millstone gnashing of teeth, especially amongst the magaloons when they realize they've been had.

[Yellowtail]

5 minutes ago, BusyB said:

 

I disagree. His background, CV, personality, conviction (the felonies and sex harassment verdicts I mean - he has no moral convictions beyond himself) were all on open display. And he openly said exactly what he wanted to do. So far he's been doing just that.

Trump has not been convicted of sexual harassment. 

5 minutes ago, BusyB said:

But it's fun to watch the magaloons get a taste of what decent people have been having to contend with since January this year.

What might that be? Everyone I know that voted for Trump is still happy they did. 

 

5 minutes ago, BusyB said:

Just wait till Vance takes over. I firmly believe that's the gameplan. Then there will be a deafening wailing and millstone gnashing of teeth, especially amongst the magaloons when they realize they've been had.

I think Vance is great, and I look forward to him winning in 2028. 

[EVENKEEL]

56 minutes ago, bubblegum said:

One liners. All you do is one liners. Insults and one liners, just like Trump and his cult followers. Oh funny. YOU are the follower.

Temper temper now. 

[dinsdale]

41 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

But he didn't win the right to be a one person dictator and that's clearly how he's acting. 

Dictator. 

[metisdead]

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