Trump delivers on promise to sue Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over Epstein birthday card

Donald Trump followed through on his promise to sue the Wall Street Journal and its owner Rupert Murdoch after the paper reported on his alleged involvement with a 50th birthday gift to Jeffrey Epstein.

Court records show the libel suit filed in the Southern District of Florida against WSJ, Dow Jones and Rupert Murdoch, CNBC reported. 

A copy of the complaint was not immediately available. The case was filed in Miami federal court.

A bombshell report in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday claimed Trump wrote a ‘bawdy’ 50th birthday card to Epstein which concluded: ‘Happy Birthday – and may every day be another wonderful secret’. 

The newspaper said it had reviewed a typewritten letter bearing Trump´s signature, framed by the seemingly hand-drawn outline of a naked woman, that Ghislaine Maxwell included in a 2003 birthday album. 

Trump has denied writing the letter or drawing the picture, calling it ‘false, malicious, and defamatory.’

Trump specifically went after its owner, Murdoch, who also owns the Fox Corporation that controls Fox News.

‘I look forward to getting Rupert Murdoch to testify in my lawsuit against him and his `pile of garbage´ newspaper, the WSJ,’ Trump said on Truth Social. 

‘That will be an interesting experience!!!’ 

A spokesman referred DailyMail.com to a senior advisor to Trump when reached for comment. 

In the text, the paper claimed Trump wrote: ‘We have certain things in common, Jeffrey’ and that both of them know that ‘there must be more to life than having everything’.

The message is said to have included an X-rated drawing of a naked woman, with Trump’s famous signature squiggle written across her genitals to mimic pubic hair. 

Trump has vowed to sue the Wall St Journal and said the letter, written in 2003, is ‘fake’.

According to the Journal, the naked woman appeared to have been hand-drawn with a marker, with a pair of arcs indicating the woman’s breasts and a squiggly signature reading ‘Donald’ appearing in her pubic region, mimicking hair. 

‘I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women,’ Trump told the WSJ. ‘It’s not my language. It’s not my words.’

But it once again raises questions about the friendship between Trump and Epstein.

But last week following the memo from his DOJ, which sparked a MAGA civil war, Trump became irate and said during a cabinet meeting that everyone should move on.

He has now called his supporters ‘weaklings’ for believing a Democrat-run ‘hoax’.

The Wall Street Journal bombshell, which Trump thoroughly denounced on social media, comes amid major MAGA outrage over a DOJ and FBI report published last week indicating no further Epstein-related files will be released.

Since then, Republicans in Congress have faced pressure from their constituents to force the DOJ to release the files and conservative influencers have been pressuring lawmakers to act. 

Trump has also urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to release additional documents, though the push from Capitol Hill could obtain documents the AG or Trump does not want released. 

The late financier was charged in 2008 for soliciting prostitution with an underaged girl and received a modest jail sentence in Florida. He was later charged with federal sex trafficking crimes in 2019. He hung himself in prison awaiting his trial, feds say. 

However, his socializing with the likes of Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, hordes of other A-list celebrities, including Trump, have prompted many to believe that these ‘elites’ could have been involved in Epstein’s crimes. 

The president’s allies began to defend the president saying he would never be caught drawing in such a fashion.

Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son, declared on social media, ‘in 47 years I’ve never seen him doodle once. Give me a break.’ 

Vice President JD Vance posted on X defending his boss that the story is ‘complete and utter bulls***.’

‘The WSJ should be ashamed for publishing it,’ the 40-year-old VP continued. ‘Where is this letter? Would you be shocked to learn they never showed it to us before publishing it? Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump?’ 

‘Anyone who believes Trump got markers out to draw the figure of a woman and write what sounds like some weird Democrat fan fiction inside it to Jeffrey Epstein is an imbecile with a room temperature IQ,’ Conservative commentator Robby Starbuck wrote.

‘I think that @WSJ is gonna have to write President Trump a really fat check,’ Starbuck predicted.  

Democrats have put Republicans in a bind over the matter, seizing on the bizarre explanation that Trump doesn’t draw despite there being myriad examples of the president’s sketches. 

California Gov. Gavin Newsom hit back on Trump’s claim he never drew with a picture by posting one that he donated to charity. 

‘Trump loves to draw,’ former congressman Adam Kinzinger posted alongside a dozen of the president’s drawings. ‘Just saying.’ 

Progressive Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., wrote on X: ‘I don’t know what’s in the Epstein files, but Trump being so desperate to make this story go away is making me wonder: what’s he hiding?’

‘Give the American people the transparency they deserve,’ she added. ‘Release the full files.’

The Department of Justice announcement that Epstein did not in fact have a ‘client list’ has prompted a bipartisan push on Capitol Hill for the DOJ to release any files on the sex offender and human trafficker.

Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., have begun the process to force a vote on the files release.