Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and The Wall Street Journal
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President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch, a day after the newspaper published a story reporting on his ties to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The lawsuit accuses the newspaper and its parent company of libel after it published an article about a lewd letter bearing Trump’s name among the birthday notes collected as a gift for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday.
Trump and Epstein met around the time Trump bought Mar-a-Lago in 1985, when Epstein was also living in Palm Beach, according to Trump, who told New York magazine in 2002 he had known Epstein for “15 years,