US president threatens to sue US newspaper for publishing particulars of lurid letter he allegedly wrote to deceased intercourse offender in 2003.
United States President Donald Trump has requested Lawyer Common Pam Bondi to request a court docket launch grand jury testimony within the Jeffrey Epstein case, as uproar over the controversy widens.
The case of deceased high-profile intercourse offender Epstein has dominated information lately after the Trump administration reversed course final week on its pledge to launch paperwork it had urged contained damning revelations about Epstein and his alleged elite clientele.
That reversal enraged many of Trump’s most loyal followers and prompted allegations that his administration is overlaying up lurid particulars of Epstein’s crimes to guard wealthy and highly effective figures.
Trump himself had been related to Epstein and as soon as known as him a good friend.
“Based mostly on the ridiculous quantity of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I’ve requested Lawyer Common Pam Bondi to provide any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, topic to Courtroom approval. This SCAM, perpetuated by the Democrats, ought to finish, proper now!” Trump wrote on his Reality Social platform late on Thursday.
Shortly after Trump’s assertion, Lawyer Common Bondi mentioned on social media that the Justice Division was able to ask the court docket on Friday to unseal the grand jury transcripts.
“President Trump – we’re prepared to maneuver the court docket tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts,” Bondi wrote.
The most recent improvement comes simply hours after Trump threatened to sue The Wall Road Journal after it printed a narrative about an alleged risque letter he wrote to Epstein that featured a drawing of a unadorned girl. The WSJ story, which rapidly reverberated across the US capital, says the notice to Epstein bearing Trump’s signature was a part of a group assembled for Epstein’s fiftieth birthday in 2003.
The newspaper mentioned it reviewed the letter however didn’t print a picture.
“The Editor of The Wall Road Journal… was advised immediately by [White House Press Secretary] Karoline Leavitt, and by President Trump, that the letter was a FAKE,” Trump wrote on his social media platform.
“As a substitute, they’re going with a false, malicious, and defamatory story anyway,” he mentioned.
“President Trump will likely be suing The Wall Road Journal, NewsCorp, and Mr. [Rupert] Murdoch, shortly. The Press has to be taught to be truthful, and never depend on sources that in all probability don’t even exist,” he added.
The alleged letter, which Trump denies writing, entails a number of traces of typewritten textual content, contained in a top level view of a unadorned girl drawn with a marker.
“The longer term president’s signature is a squiggly ‘Donald’ under her waist, mimicking pubic hair,” the Journal reported.
“The letter concludes: ‘Joyful Birthday — and should daily be one other great secret.’”
Trump advised the WSJ: “This isn’t me. It is a pretend factor.”
“I don’t draw photos of ladies,” he mentioned. “It’s not my language. It’s not my phrases.”
Epstein took his personal life in a New York jail in 2019 – throughout Trump’s first time period – after being charged with intercourse trafficking in a scheme the place he allegedly groomed younger and underage girls for sexual abuse by the wealthy and highly effective.
The Trump-supporting far-right has lengthy latched onto the scandal, claiming the existence of a still-secret record of Epstein’s highly effective purchasers and that the late financier was, actually, murdered in his cell as a part of a cover-up.
