""Democrats and Fake News media desperately tried to coordinate a despicable hoax," said White House spokesperson Liz Huston. "Forgive my language but this story is complete and utter bullshit," Vice President J. D. Vance wrote on X. "The WSJ should be ashamed for publishing it.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?""
"Trump sued the Journal's parent company and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, for defamation, seeking $10 billion in damages. In the legal complaint, Trump's lawyers accused the paper of "malicious, deliberate, and despicable actions," including publishing "a series of quotes from the nonexistent letter." Now that Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have obtained and shared the letter, which is very much existent, that approach appears to have been short-sighted."
The Wall Street Journal reported that Donald Trump wrote a suggestive letter to Jeffrey Epstein celebrating Epstein's 50th birthday in 2003. The White House and Trump allies responded with emphatic denials, calling the report a hoax and attacking the newspaper's credibility. Trump sued the Journal and Rupert Murdoch for defamation, seeking $10 billion and alleging malicious publication of fabricated quotes. The House Oversight Committee obtained and released the letter, confirming its existence and undermining initial denials. Accepting the denials had required believing the newspaper would publish an unverified accusation about a litigious figure, that a Murdoch-owned paper acted as a partisan Democratic outlet, and that the suggestive content was implausible.
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