Donald Trump sued “Wall Street Journal” for Epstein report

US President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the “Wall Street Journal” (WSJ) because of a “defamatory” report that associated him with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In his lawsuit in Florida on Friday (local time) against the newspaper and the Medienmogul Rupert Murdoch, Trump demands at least $ 10 billion (around 8.6 billion euros).

The authors “invented this story to damage the reputation and integrity of President Trump and to present it in a wrong light,” the lawsuit said that the AFP news agency is available.

The publisher of the newspaper, Dow Jones, said he would “defend himself” vigorously “and referred to his trust in the” care and accuracy of our reporting “.

The “Wall Street Journal” reported on a slippery letter on Thursday, which Trump is said to have written to Epstein in 2003. According to “WSJ”, the letter also contained a sketch of a naked woman’s body. Trump denied being the author of the letter and announced legal steps against the newspaper.

The US President is increasingly under pressure because of the affair around Epstein in his own camp. Many of his followers had recently said outraged because his government did not keep a promise to the Epstein scandal: she wanted to bring light to the scandal around the US billionaire, who was found dead in his prison cell in Manhattan in 2019. The investment banker was accused of misused numerous girls and young women.

On Thursday, Trump promised his supporters to disclose legal documents in this case. Trump wrote at Truth at Truth that he “had to publish certain court documents for the case due to the ridiculous dimension of attention that Jeffrey Epstein was granted”, Justice Minister Pam Bondi.