(Washington) Donald Trump filed a defamation of at least $ 10 billion against the Wall Street Journal And his boss Rupert Murdoch after the publication of an article attributing him a health letter addressed to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, in a case that embarrasses the president with his base.
The tenant of the White House has been entangled for several days in this case, which is the subject of a multitude of conspiracy theories, and on which he had sworn to shed light.
She experienced a new twist on Thursday with an article from Wall Street Journal According to which Donald Trump had sent this embarrassing letter in 2003 to Jeffrey Epstein, which he had been close to.
Confirming that he has filed a prosecution against the newspaper, the American president denounced a false, malicious, defamatory and totally fake news, published in the unnecessary “cloth” that is the Wall Street Journal “.
As a crusade against the traditional media since his return to power, the Republican has claimed at least ten billion dollars, according to this pursuit aimed at the prestigious daily, his boss Rupert Murdoch and two of his journalists.
They “invented this story to tarnish the reputation and integrity of President Trump, and present it in a misleading manner in a falsely day”, can be read in the complaint, consulted by AFP.
Jeffrey Epstein was never tried for these facts: this rich financier had been found dead in his prison cell shortly after his indictment.
Fury of “Maga”
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Jeffrey Epstein in 2017
Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and charged in July 2019 for sexual trafficking of minors and criminal association with a view to committing this offense.
The death of this friend of the stars and powerful, found hanging in his cell in New York a month later, before being tried, fueled a number of conspiracy theories that he was murdered to prevent revelations involving leading personalities.
He had already been sentenced to a short prison sentence in 2008, in particular for recruiting a minor for prostitution purposes.
Figures close to the Trumpist Movement “Make America Great Again” (“restoring its greatness to America”, in French) have been campaigning for years for the publication of a supposed list of Customers of Jeffrey Epstein.
But on July 7, the Department of Justice and the Federal Police, the FBI, established in a common report that there was no evidence of the existence of such a list or blackmail towards certain personalities.
Ads that have led to a surge of furious messages coming from “Maga” accounts on social networks.
Naked woman sketch
Donald Trump, who was close to Jeffrey Epstein until the mid -2000s, openly annoyed.
He described this fringe as “stupid” supporters and asked them to move on, while accusing the Democratic opposition of having organized a campaign aimed at mixing him with the case.
The article of Wall Street Journal is not likely to bury it.
The daily says that, for a guest book intended for Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 on the occasion of his 50e Birthday, his partner Ghislaine Maxwell had requested tens of his relatives, including Donald Trump, then real estate magnate.
The letter in the name of Donald Trump has several dactylographed text lines surrounded by a sketch of a naked woman with his signature evoking a pubic fleece, according to the newspaper.
“Happy birthday – and every day is another wonderful secret,” said he read the Wall Street Journal, which does not reproduce the letter.
