President Trump sued The Wall Street Journal, its owners and reporters for publishing a “false” letter purportedly wishing the late Jeffrey Epstein a happy birthday with suggestive, sexual references.
The paper published an article Thursday that claimed Mr. Trump drew an outline of a naked woman and wrote Epstein birthday wishes inside a third-person dialogue message.
Mr. Trump’s lawsuit says the paper reached out to the White House two days prior and was told by his lawyers that the letter was false yet published it anyway.
The article went live at a time when Mr. Trump and his administration refused to release a list of Epstein’s clients, who were alleged to have engaged in prostitution and sex acts with underage women.
“The statements were published by Defendants with actual malice, oppression, and fraud in that they were aware at the time of the falsity of the publication and thus, made