President Donald Trump flatly denied the new bombshell reporting about his friendship with deceased money manager and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in the Wall Street Journal — and threatened to sue the paper over it.
“This is not me. This is a fake thing," said Trump, according to the report. "It’s a fake Wall Street Journal story. I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women. It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”
“I’m gonna sue The Wall Street Journal just like I sued everyone else,” Trump warned.
The letter in question, one of several allegedly sent by various powerful and famous friends of Epstein in 2003 to honor his birthday, framed the text in the outline of a naked woman, complete with breasts and a squiggly "Donald" signature below the waist to resemble pubic hair.
“Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret,” Trump concluded in the letter.
The Journal's reporting follows frantic efforts by the White House to prevent the story from going public. It also follows more general efforts to quell anger and suspicion from Trump's base after the Justice Department wrapped up a long-hyped review of the Epstein case with no new information and no evidence of the theorized "client list" some people believe would out powerful and wealthy co-conspirators.