President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against Dow Jones & Company, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, less than 24 hours after the newspaper published a report claiming the president sent convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a lewd birthday letter in 2003.
President Trump said Thursday night that he had warned Rupert Murdoch — who is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit — that legal action was imminent. The two Wall Street Journal reporters who authored the article are also named in the suit.
According to the WSJ, the letter was part of a 50th birthday gift Ghislaine Maxwell was assembling for Epstein. The newspaper reported that it was one of dozens of letters compiled into an album.
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According to the report, President Trump’s letter included “typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman,” along with his signature. It read: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
President Trump is quoted in the article denying that he wrote it.
“I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women. It’s not my language. It’s not my words,” Trump told the WSJ.
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