President Trump
I Need $10 Billion, Wall St. Journal!!!
Sues Over Alleged Epstein Letter
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No TACO this time from President Trump … as promised, he is filed a defamation lawsuit over the Wall Avenue Journal story claiming he wrote a racy fiftieth birthday word to Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump filed Friday in federal court docket in Florida — nearly 24 hours after the WSJ story dropped. Based on the docs, obtained by TMZ, he says the Journal falsely handed off as truth he’d drawn the picture of a unadorned girl, and signed his title “Donald” to imitate pubic hair.
He claims the outlet had entry to data exhibiting their story was false … though, he doesn’t say what that data is.
The swimsuit insists there may be “no genuine letter or drawing,” and the Journal concocted the story “to malign President Trump’s character and integrity and deceptively painting him in a false gentle.”
Trump says the Journal first contacted the White Home Press Secretary on July 15 to say they had been publishing the story. That very same afternoon, the President’s legal professional responded the story was false, and threatened authorized motion if the WSJ went forward and printed … which they did on July 17.
Not shockingly, POTUS needs an infinite sum from the WSJ and its father or mother firm Information Corp. — demanding at least $10 BILLION.
After all, the story went in all places as quickly because it broke, and Trump’s authorized group took discover — saying within the docs, greater than 20 million followers on the WSJ’s X account unfold the story, in addition to different influencers and journalists.
Within the swimsuit, Trump says the story was printed “on the course of” Rupert Murdoch and Information Corp. CEO Robert Thomson … who’re each named as defendants, in addition to the two WSJ reporters who wrote the story.
Moments after he filed the swimsuit, Trump hopped on Reality Social to hurl extra jabs on the defendants — “We have now simply filed a POWERHOUSE Lawsuit in opposition to everybody concerned in publishing the false, malicious, defamatory, FAKE NEWS ‘article’ within the ineffective ‘rag’ that’s, The Wall Avenue Journal.”
He additionally bragged about his latest large wins over media shops like “ABC and George Slopadopoulos, CBS and 60 Minutes.”
A spokesperson for Dow Jones, WSJ’s father or mother firm, tells TMZ … “We have now full confidence within the rigor and accuracy of our reporting, and can vigorously defend in opposition to any lawsuit.”
