Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump Wall Street Journal and Media Mogul Rupert on Friday filed a $ 10 billion case against Murdoch, when the newspaper reported a story on his relationship with the newspaper’s financial Jeffrey Epstein.
On Friday, a federal court by the Department of Justice asked a federal court to ignore the grand jury tape that the step had come. Epstein’s The case of sex trafficking, as the administration wants to include The firstorm After the announcement that she would not issue additional files from the case, despite pledging to do so in advance.
Controversy has created A major fidel Between Trump and his loyal base, some of his most vocal supporters slammed the White House in the way the matter is handled, and questioning why Trump does not want the documents to be made public.
Trump promised to prosecute the Wall Street Journal almost immediately, as the paper had put a new spotlight on its well -written relationship with Epstein, published an article in which a sexually described letter was described that the newspaper had called the name of the bore Trump and it was composed in an album of 2003 which was composed for the 50th birthday of the 2003.
Trump refused to write the letter, called the story “false, malicious and defamation”.
The suit filed in the federal court in Miami accused the paper and his reporters of deliberately and carelessly publishing “many false, defamation and dislike statements”, alleging that the President caused the President to “financial and reputed losses”.
In a post on his true social site, Trump prosecuted as part of his efforts to punish the news outlets including ABC and CBS, which reached the disposal deals with the Multimilian-Dollar with the President after taking both to court.
He wrote, “The lawsuit not only has been filed by your favorite President, ME, but also to stand up for all Americans who will no longer tolerate the outrageous wrongdoing of fake news media,” he wrote.
A representative of the journal publisher Dow Jones did not immediately respond to the request for comment on Friday.
A letter expressed by Wall Street Journal was allegedly collected Humiliated British Socrinte Ghhishline Maxwell As part of a birthday album for Epstein, was first arrested in 2006 before the rich financier and later fell with Trump.
The letter written in the name of Trump involves the text prepared by a hand-prepared naked woman and according to the newspaper, “Happy Birthday-and every day can be another amazing secret,” ends with “.
Trump refused to write a letter and promised to sue. He said that he spoke to both the owner of the paper, Rurt Murdoch and its top editor, Emma Tucker before the story was published and told him that the letter was “fake”.
The President insisted, “These are not my words, the way I talk. Also, I do not take pictures.”
The outlet described the contents of the letter, but did not publish a picture by showing it completely or provided details about how it came to know about it.
In the trial, Trump raises the issue with the fact. Defendants, this speculation, “failed to attach the letter, failed to attach the alleged drawing, failed to show the evidence that President Trump had a writer or signed to any such letter, and failed to convince how this alleged letter was obtained.”
“The reason for those failures is that no authentic letter or drawing exists,” it proceeds to accuse, alleging that “the defendants prepared the story for the character and integrity of President Trump and confused them in a false light.”
Earlier on Friday, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche filed the speeds in a separate federal court, in which she was urged in the case against Epstein Tape as well as Maxwell, who was convicted of wooing teenage girls for sexual exploitation by Epstein. Epstein killed himself in 2019 after his arrest while waiting for the trial.
The Department of Justice announced that it would not have publicly publicized any more Epstein files, angered parts of the base of Trump in part as his own administration members had hiped the expected release and stopped conspiracies around the well -associated financially.
The Department of Justice said in the court filing that it will work with the prosecutors in New York, which will identify the information before the proper shortage of victim-related information and other personally identified.
“In this process, transparency will not be at the cost of our obligation under the law to protect the victims,” Blancch wrote.
But despite the new push to release the grand jury tape, the administration has not announced a plan to reverse the course and release other evidence in its possession. Attorney General Palm Bandy continued the release of more materials after the disclosure of the first Epstein files in February, as there was no new disclosure in it.
A judge must approve the release of the grand jury tape, and it is likely to be a long process to decide whether to be public and reduce sensitive witnesses and victims to protect information.
Records will show testimony to witnesses and other evidence that were presented by prosecution during the Secret Grand Jury proceedings, when a panel decides whether there is enough evidence to bring prosecution, or a formal criminal allegations.
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Neumister and Colvin reported from New York.
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An old version of the story said that Trump filed a $ 10 million suit. The lawsuit is at a loss of at least $ 10 billion.
Alana Durkin Richar, Larry Pneumister and Jill Colvin, Associated Press