Trump suits Murdoch and Wall Street Journal for $ 10 billion or …

Donald Trump presented a 10 billion dollar cause (£ 7.5 billion) against the mother society of the Wall Street Journal Dow Jones and its owner Rupert Murdoch for the statements of having written a “dark” note for the sexual molester Jeffrey Epstein.

The President of the United States states that the publication calmed him and violated the laws on defamation in an article by claiming that a birthday greeting with the name of Trump was sent to the deceased financier in 2003, before being accused of sexual crimes.

Trump said that the note, that the newspaper reported that he sent Epstein’s 50th birthday is “false”.

It came when the United States Department of Justice asked a judge not to put the non -wage material relating to Epstein, following intense criticisms of the management of the case by the Trump Administration.

Trump said on social media: “We have just filed a powerful cause against all the subjects involved in the publication of the false, harmful, defamatory and false” in useless “Rag” article which is, the Wall Street Journal.

“I hope Rupert and his” friends “can’t wait for many hours of depositions and testimonies that they will have to provide in this case.”

He said that the newspaper and Murdoch-Con which Trump had a report up and down for decades-sidelines that would have been sued if they print the article.

A Dow Jones spokesman declared in a BBC declaration: “We have full confidence in the rigor and accuracy of our relationships and will strongly defend against any cause”.

Murdoch, who was seen on Sunday by attending the Fifa Club World Cup with Trump, founded a media empire that is credited by some for helping to push the president to the White House.

According to the Wall Street Journal, a letter with the name of Trump “contained several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, who seems to be handed by hand with a heavy marker”.

“Inside the outline of the naked woman there was a Dactyloscript -style note as an imaginary conversation between Trump and Epstein, written in the third person”, reported the document.

According to reports, it contained a playful reference that “the puzzles never age” and presumably ended with the words: “A friend is a wonderful thing. Happy birthday – and every day it can be another wonderful secret”.

Trump denied writing the note after the article was published on Thursday, publishing: “These are not my words, not the way I speak. Furthermore, I don’t draw images”.

The United States Department of Justice requires that the transcriptions of the jury involved in the case of the 2019 Government sex trafficking against Epstein, materials that are generally maintained secret and protected by law.

Thursday, Trump ordered the prosecutor General Pam Bondi to ask for the release of documents relating to the secret testimony of the great Jury of Epstein.

The Department of Justice has formally submitted the request to a judge in New York, supporting the materials relating to the case – in which he was accused of traffic of dozens of 14 -year -old girls – “qualifies himself as a question of public interest”.

The Department also requests dissemination in the case of its associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who was sentenced in conspiracy sex trafficking for minors.

A large jury – a group of people who control if there is sufficient evidence to accuse a person a crime – can hear confidential informants and those whose identities are protected for their security. The materials in a large jury are generally maintained secret pursuant to the law, but a judge may not put the documents if they decide that the public interest exceeds the need for these legal protections in one case.

In any case, it is not clear when or if the documents are released or if they contain many of the details that Trump’s supporters have asked to see.

The developments on Friday arrived in the middle of a turbulent week for the president since some of his most faithful supporters have requested greater transparency and public dissemination in the Epstein case.

Some Trump lealists have even asked that the prosecutor General Bondi dismisses after having reversed the course on the release of certain documents relating to Epstein.

Bianco Chad, a republican sheriff who runs for the governor of California, told the BBC News that the management by Trump of Epstein’s files was not what “expected” and that “millions” of his followers are disappointed.

“We feel like we were spoken as stupid children,” he added.

In the meantime, the members of the congress are pushing to pass a “discharge petition” that would force Bondi to release a wide range of materials that the Department of Justice has linked to Epstein.

The effort brought together some of the most ferocious opponents of the congress, including the Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who are both signed as supporters. [BBC]

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