Under fire from his most radical supporters, who have criticized his administration for a lack of transparency over the Jeffrey Epstein case, Donald Trump launched a counterattack on two fronts on Friday, July 18. First, he formally requested the release of new documents concerning the financier, who was found dead in 2019 in his New York prison cell, where he had been sent following initial child sexual abuse charges in 2006.
The president of the United States also filed a defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, demanding at least $10 billion in damages, after the business daily published an article describing a lewd letter said to have been addressed to Epstein on his 50th birthday in 2003. Asked for comment by the article’s authors, Trump denied having written such a letter to a man he had publicly associated with. “We have full confidence in the rigor and accuracy of our reporting, and will vigorously defend against any lawsuit,” said a spokesperson for Dow Jones, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, in a statement.
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