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 be aware to Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump filed Friday in federal court docket in Florida — nearly 24 hours after the WSJ story dropped. In line with 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 identify “Donald” to imitate pubic hair.
He claims the outlet had entry to info displaying their story was false … though, he doesn’t say what that info is.
The go well with insists there’s “no authentic letter or drawing,” and the Journal concocted the story “to malign President Trump’s character and integrity and deceptively portray him in a false light.”
Trump says the Journal first contacted the White Home Press Secretary on July 15 to say they have been publishing the story. That very same afternoon, the President’s lawyer responded the story was false, and threatened authorized motion if the WSJ went forward and revealed … 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.
In fact, the story went in every single place as quickly because it broke, and Trump’s authorized staff 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 go well with, Trump says the story was revealed “at the direction 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 go well with, Trump hopped on Fact Social to hurl extra jabs on the defendants — “We have just filed a POWERHOUSE Lawsuit against everyone involved in publishing the false, malicious, defamatory, FAKE NEWS ‘article’ in the useless ‘rag’ that is, The Wall Street Journal.”
He additionally bragged about his latest massive wins over media shops like “ABC and George Slopadopoulos, CBS and 60 Minutes.”
