CNN reports:
President Trump is vowing to sue the Wall Street Journal and owner Rupert Murdoch over the outlet’s bombshell story detailing a 2003 birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein bearing Trump’s name and a drawing of a naked woman. “I told Rupert Murdoch it was a Scam, that he shouldn’t print this Fake Story. But he did, and now I’m going to sue his ass off, and that of his third rate newspaper,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Trump has a long history of legal threats against news outlets, and doesn’t always follow through with actual lawsuits. In this case, he did not specify what exactly he’d sue the newspaper for, though his camp referenced “defamatory lies.” But the mere threat of a lawsuit opened a new chapter in the operatic relationship between Trump and Murdoch, the 93-year-old patriarch who controls the Journal, Fox News and other conservative media brands.
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Trump loves to draw. Just saying pic.twitter.com/jMJh3XWvBW
— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@AdamKinzinger) July 18, 2025
He’s literally on tape boasting about sexually assaulting women so yes this is the way he talks pic.twitter.com/kTEQg7qh9f
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 18, 2025
— Democrats (@TheDemocrats) July 17, 2025
Wow — the Journal reports that when reporters contacted Trump two days ago about this story👇, he threatened to sue if it was published, then hours later claimed that Obama and Biden “made up” the Epstein files https://t.co/t1t30xbbMv
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 17, 2025
And in his 2008 book, “Never Give Up,” he wrote, “Each year I donate an autographed doodle” https://t.co/mxjBNOQ6KE pic.twitter.com/EIEZXm4pnd
— Andrew Bates (@AndrewBatesNC) July 18, 2025
“I never wrote a picture in my life.” pic.twitter.com/sxYydO4LcJ
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 18, 2025