Recommendations of the Editorial team
According to the explosive report of the “Wall Street Journal” about an alleged birthday letter, which Donald Trump is said to have written to Jeffrey Epstein, the President has complained against the parent company of the newspaper, News Corp., against Dow Jones (the publisher), Against two reporters of the journal and against the billion -dollar media mogul Rupert Murdoch, the News Corp. heard, submitted.
According to the lawsuit, which was submitted in the southern district of Florida on Friday and viewed by Rolling Stone, Trump demands at least $ 10 billion in damages. He accuses the journal of knowingly and ruthlessly published “numerous false, defamatory and reducing statements”. He also claims that reporters Khadeeja Safdar and Joseph Palazzolo “falsely represent the fact that President Trump had drawn the breasts of the naked woman and signed his name ‘Donald’ below their waist”.
Trump also accuses the journalists that they “did not add the letter, the alleged drawing, did not provide evidence that President Trump wrote or signed such a letter, and not explained how this alleged letter was procured” and adds: “The reason for this failure is that there is no authentic letter or drawing.”
Trump decidedly rejects allegations
In a statement to Rolling Stone, a spokesman for Dow Jones explained: “We have full confidence in the care and accuracy of our reporting and will vigorously defend ourselves against any lawsuit.”
In the journal, published on Thursday evening, it is claimed that a collection of letters gave the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday and in 2003 by Ghislane Maxwell – also a convicted sex offender – was compiled in an album. According to the newspaper, there was a note with Donald Trump’s name under the sides of the album, framed by a drawing of a naked woman, with the text: “We have certain things in common, Jeffrey.”
The president vehemently denied that he had written the letter or made the drawing. “The Wall Street Journal printed a fake letter, supposedly to Epstein,” he wrote after the report on Truth Social. “These are not my words, not my way of talking. Besides, I don’t draw pictures.”
Trump’s drawings for charitable purposes documented
Despite Trump’s assertion of not making any doodles, it is known that he regularly drawn pictures for charity events. Trump himself has emphasized his tendency to drawing several times and wrote in a 2010 book with the title Trump Never Give Up: “Sometimes you discover new talents. Every year I donate a signed doodle for the Doodle for Hunger Auction in Tavern on the Green.
In a post shared on Friday on Friday, Trump wrote: “I look forward to seeing Rupert Murdoch in my complaint against him and his ‘garbage newspaper’, the WSJ, to see in court. That will be an interesting experience !!!”